2017
My Dream
My dream has always been to work somewhere in an area between fashion and publishing. 我的梦想一直是到时尚界和出版业相关的领域工作。

Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course. 在中学毕业的前两年，我修了一个缝纫与设计的课程，当时我认为我将进一步修时尚计课程。

重点词汇：secondary school 初中 primary school 小学= elementary school high school 高中 higher education 高等教育| sewing[‘səʊɪŋ] n.缝纫业缝纫do some sewing 做针线活 sew [səʊ]v.缝纫 | sow v. 播种One reaps what one sows . 一个人收获他所播种的。

reap v.收获
However, during that course I realised that I was not good enough in this area to compete with other creative personalities in the future, so I decided that it was not the right path for me. 然而，在修那门课程期间我意识到，将来在这个领域与那些有创造力的人竞争，我还不够优秀，因此我决定这对我来说不是一条正确的道路。

重点词汇：compete with 与…竞争 | creative personalities 有创造力的
人 well-known personalities 知名人士
Before applying for university I told everyone that I would study journalism, because writing was, and still is, one of my favourite activities. 在申请大学之前，我告诉每个人我将要学新闻，因为写作是当时我最喜欢的活动之一，现在写作仍然是我最喜欢的活动之一。

重点词汇：apply for 申请| 美国的高考SAT 考研GRE | journalism 新闻 journalist 记者journal 杂志期刊|
But, to be absolutely honest, I said it, because I thought that fashion and me together was just a dream - I knew that no one, apart from myself, could imagine me in the fashion industry at all! 但是诚实的讲，我那么说是因为我认为时尚业对我来说就是一个梦想。

我知道，除了我自己，没有人会想象我会在时尚行业的。

重点词汇：apart from 除了...之外。