WHAT is the top hit single of 2006? It's "Don't Wanna Grow Up"!

Taiwan girl band S. H. E took home the gold hit award at the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards (金曲榜) last week, with "Don't Wanna Grow Up" from their eighth album "Once Upon A Time".

It's the first time S.H.E has won the award. The three members, Selina, Hebe and Ella were all very excited about it. They not only performed the song at the award ceremony, but also offered exaggerated (夸张的) hugs (拥抱) when giving awards to other artists.

"Don't Wanna Grow Up" is a song with light tunes (旋律) and easy lyrics. Its music writer Zuo Anan used the tunes from Mozart's Symphony No 40 as the refrain (副歌). That gives the song a very classical feeling. The song has a similar theme to that of Peter Pan, the boy who doesn't grow up. "I don't wanna grow up. When I grow up there won't be fairy tales in the world. I don't wanna grow up. I'd rather be ignorant and foolish." In the song, S.H.E expresses young people's common fear of the adult world and the desire to stay young forever.

The song has been quite popular among high school students since it came out. Xiao Xue, a Senior 1 student from Shanghai, said that she often hums (哼歌) the refrain part herself.

"I like the lyrics too," she said, "I often wish that I could go back to my childhood, when I had enough time to play and didn't have to worry about all the exams."

S.H.E said that the song also expresses their true feelings. Their rocking success in the past six years has led to the three young girls heavy workloads (工作量) and forced them to grow up very quickly. "When we first started singing, we were quite carefree and we had our own musical dreams," said S.H.E. "'Don't Wanna Grow Up' reminds us of those happy times and of our original dreams."

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高考词汇

ceremony n. 典礼；仪式

a wedding/ marriage ceremony

foolish adj.愚蠢的

用法：-ish和名词结合构成形容词（尤作贬义），指…性质的；一样的，例：childish; selfish

I was foolish enough to believe him!