Florence Sephton is 77 and lives in Deganwy, North Wales。 
Florence Sephton是居住在北威尔士Deganwy的一位77岁高龄的老太太。 
She is reading for an arts degree。
   “I'm more of a creature to polish my mind than polish my furniture。 The house takes second place while I put the studying first。
  ” 
她正在进修学士学位。“我更多的是更新我的知识而不是擦亮我的家具。我把学习放在第一位，而把家务放在第二位。”
“I was very happy at school and had wonderful teaching。 I passed the university entrance examination and was ready to go to university but with World War II I went into banking。
   
“我在学校里很高兴并且受到了很好的教导。我通过了高考并且已经准备踏入大学校园，但是随着第二次世界大战的爆发我从事了银行业。
I was paid £ 1 a week。 Manchester University kept my place open for three years but I was enjoying the money and the freedom so I turned it down。
  ” 
我每周工资是1英镑。曼彻斯特大学保留了我3年的学籍，但我那是很喜欢金钱和自由所以我拒绝了学校。”
Mrs Sephton is now in the second year of her Open University course and is finding it hard work。
   “I'm feeling tired more frequently。 I can't do more than an hour’s work at a time。 The memory’s shock¬ing 。 I'm supposed to be reviewing and I look up notes I took earlier this year and think, ‘Have you read this before?’ So I'm doing it very slowly—one credit (学分) a year, so it'll take six years。
  ” 
Sephton夫人现在是成人大学的2年级学生，而且发现现在再去学习的话相当困难。“我时常感到很疲劳。我一次学习的时间不能超过1小时。记忆力也很差。我本该去复习的，然后看看上半年记下来的笔记之后回想‘我以前读过这个么？’所以我学习进度很慢，一年才攒到1个学分，所以我花了6年时间”
“At the moment the greatest reward is simply the increase in knowledge—and the discipline。
  
“这时最伟大的收获仅仅就是简单的知识的增加和获得的教训。
 I had an essay failed this week。 The professor said I hadn’t answered the question。 I’ve been thinking about it all week。
   
我这周没有通过论文答辩。教授说我没有回答问题。我整周的时间都在思考这个。
I find it difficult to organize ideas of an essay properly。 I just let myself go and get excited。
   I feel more emotionally than I do mentally。 I'm very ordinary really。” 
我发现要恰当的整理论文答辩思路很难。我只是让自己去兴奋。我越来越觉得在感情上比我在心理上感受到得更多。
  我真的很普通。”
While claiming to be ordinary and lazy, Mrs Sephton is still working hard daily at her assignments (作业) 。 Mrs Sephton sees her studies as keeping her fit and independent。
  
即使被认为是普通和懒惰的人，Sephton夫人仍然每天在努力的做作业。Sephton夫人把她的学习过程看作是保持自我健康和独立。
 “Because of my life I’ve been self-sufficient 。 It’s not a very nice characteristic。
   It means I don’t care enough about people。 I can’t say I find comfort in what I’m learning, so I’ll be interested to see if there s a life ahead。
  ” 
 “因为我的生活一直在自给自足。这不是很好的性格。这就意味着我对人们关心不够。我不能说我通过学习感受到慰籍，所以我会有兴趣看看是否有未来的生活。”。