英文美文《相信自己》

1、本文格式為Word版，下載可任意編輯 英文美文相信自己 我們這個時代的人看似自信，但是恰恰相反，也是最不自信的時代。學會相信自己是我們必需學會的事情。下面這篇英文美文，可能會對你有所啟發(fā)。 A Ball to Roll Around 滾球 I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the bright

2、ness of sunshine and what red color is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. 4歲那年在大西洋城，我從貨場一輛火車上摔下來，頭先著地，于是雙目失明?，F(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)32歲了。我還模糊地記得陽光是多么璀璨，紅色是多么嬌艷。能恢復(fù)視覺縱然好，但災(zāi)難也能對人產(chǎn)生巧妙的作用。 It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if

3、I hadnt been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left. 有一天我突然想到，假若我不是盲人，我或許不會變得像現(xiàn)在這樣熱愛生活。現(xiàn)在我相信生活，但我不能確定假

4、如自己是明眼人，會不會像現(xiàn)在這樣深深地相信生活。這并不意味著我寧愿成為盲人，而只是意味著失去視力使我更加珍惜自己其他的能力。 Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afrai

5、d. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me a potential to live, you might call it which I didnt see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness. 我認為，生活要求人不斷地自我調(diào)整以適應(yīng)現(xiàn)實。人愈能及時地進行調(diào)整，他的個人世界便愈有意義。調(diào)整決非易事。我曾感到茫然畏懼，但我很幸運，父母和老師在我身上發(fā)現(xiàn)了某種東西可以稱之為活下去的潛力吧而我自己卻沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)。他們鼓舞我誓與失明拼搏畢竟。 T

6、he hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadnt been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me

7、 down a unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. 我必需學會的最艱苦的一課就是相信自己，這

8、是基本條件。如做不到這一點，我的精神就會崩潰，只能坐在前門廊的搖椅中度過余生。相信自己并不僅僅指支持我單獨走下陌生的樓梯的那種自信，那是一部分。我指的是大事：是堅信自己雖然有缺陷，卻是一個真正的有進取心的人;堅信在蕓蕓眾生錯綜繁雜的格局當中，自有我可以容身立命的一席之地。 It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball, I thought he wa

9、s mocking me and I was hurt. I cant use this, I said. Take it with you, he urged me, and roll it around. The words stuck in my head. Roll it around! By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphias

10、 Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball. 我花了很長時間才樹立并不斷加強這一信念。這要從最簡單的事做起。有一次一個人給我一個室內(nèi)玩的棒球，我以為他在嘲諷我，心里很難受。我不能使這個。我說。你拿去，他竭力勸我，在地上滾。他的話在我腦子里生了根。在地上滾! 滾球使我聽見它朝哪兒滾動。我立刻想到一個我曾認為不可能達到的目標：打棒球。在費城的奧弗布魯克盲人學校，我發(fā)明白一種很受人歡迎的棒球游戲，我們稱它為地面球。 All my life I have set ahead of is a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure.