12.(节选)罗伦知道自己的弱点:她不喜欢一个人去餐馆吃饭。她觉得,作为一个人,作为某种人,作为已经进化的人类的一员,这是她的失败。如果你不能独自坐下来,一边看《纽约客》,一边蘸着小塑料碟里的酱油吃东西,那你怎么能宣称自己悠然自得呢?不能。或许她不能。不过话说回来,回忆往事,十一二岁的时候,我们谁不曾端着塑料托盘,在食堂里到处寻找友善的面孔?罗伦一直都需要朋友。十一岁那年,刚到新学校的她有点儿惶 12. (Excerpt) Lauren knows her weakness: she does not like to eat alone in restaurants. She felt that as a man, as a man, as a member of an evolving human being, it was her failure. If you can not sit down alone and watch “New Yorker” while eating something with the soy sauce in a small plastic dish, how can you claim to be comfortable? Maybe she can not. But then again, memories of the past, eleven or two years old, we who have not been carrying plastic trays, looking for a friendly face in the cafeteria? Lawrence has always need friends. At the age of 11, she was a little worried when she first arrived at the new school