“Once More to the Lake” is an essay first published in Harper's magazine in 1941 by author E. B. White. It chronicles his pilgrimage back to a lakefront resort, Belgrade Lakes, Maine, he visited as a child. In “Once More to the Lake”, White revisits his ideal boyhood vacation spot. He finds great joy in his visit, which causes him to struggle to remember that he is now a man.The essay shows White engaging in an internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake as he did when he was a boy and acting and viewing it as an adult, or as his father would have. The author compares the time he went fishing with his dad and how he's fishing now with his son. He suddenly realizes how death is so close because he is now the father and not the son. White realizes that although human lives are by themselves transient and insignificant, experiences are immortal. Ultimately, White suggests that nature reminds us of mortality.Vocabulary: pilgrimage, n. 朝圣之旅; 参拜圣地; 人生的旅程，一生; 漫游transient, adj. 短暂的; 转瞬即逝的; 临时的;vicariously, adv. 间接感受到地;mortality. n. 必死