1. 在我年轻的时候，生活其实比现在艰难困苦得多，表面上的安全感也少得多，但人们似乎比现在的人诚实，尔虞我诈、鼠窃狗偷的现象很少见，严重犯罪的现象自然就更是少得多了。
Life in fact was much rougher, harder, more superficially insecure, when I was young, but there seemed to be more honesty about, less constant cheating and pilfering and certainly far less vicious criminality.