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still be alive when you appeared, my wife and children all died, and my grandchildren were my own age when Icame back. I had nothing to say to them. I was cut off from all the people that I loved, everything I knew, livingin this alien catacomb and forced to do nothing of importance but teach student after student, each one sohopeful, each one, ultimately, a weakling, a failure. I teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have greatpromise, like so many students before you, but the seeds of failure may be in you, too. It's my job to find them, todestroy you if I can, and believe me, Ender, if you can be destroyed I can do it.""So I'm not the first.""No, of course you're not. But you're the last. If you don't learn, there'll be no time to find anyone else. So Ihave hope for you, only because you are the only one left to hope for.""What about the others? My squadron leaders?""Which of them is fit to take your place?""Alai.""Be honest."Ender had no answer, then."I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on itsbehalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. So, Ender, I hope you do not bore me during yourtraining with complaints that you are not having fun. Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work,but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. When you cangive me back my dead wife, Ender, then you can complain to me about what this education costs you.""I wasn't trying to get out of anything."第 290 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网