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一言难尽的高中岁月 　　Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity： If you are tough enough to survive this， they’ll let you become an adult. I hope it’s worth it. 　　有?r我觉得高中生活是一个历时漫长的捉弄游戏：你如果足够坚强，挺过去，就会成长为成年人。我希望这一切都值得。 　　―美国畅销书作家Laurie Halse Anderson 　　For better or worse， many of us never forget high school： the unrequited1） romantic crushes， chronic embarrassment， desperate struggles for popularity， sexual awakening， parental pressure and， above all else， competition―social， athletic， academic. 　　There’s even an entire genre of entertainment that revolves2） around high school. Beverly Hills 90210， Mean Girls， Heathers， The Breakfast Club and Fast Times at Ridgemont High all revisit the conflict and angst of these years. 　　What is it about this period of our lives that makes it seem more meaningful and memorable than any other？ 　　My research experience as an evolutionary psychologist leads me to believe that many factors interact to make our teenage memories so vivid. But the main driver is the collision between the hardwiring of our brains that took place across several million of years of evolution and the odd social bubble created by high school， which poses an unprecedented social challenge to our prehistoric minds. 　　In other words， the world that we evolved to be successful in （a small， stable group of interrelated people of various ages） is very different from the holding pen full of teenagers brimming with hormones. 　　“The Reminiscence3） Bump” 　　Some look back on high school as the best time of their life and pine4） for those “good old days.” Whether or not this was actually the case， it turns out there may have been some evolutionary advantages to having a rosy view of the past. 　　But most of us remember high school with an emotional mixture of longing， regret， joy and embarrassment. And strong emotions equal strong memories; even the music from those years gets imprinted on our brain like nothing that comes later. 　　Memory researchers hav