英语智慧背囊 07-美洲鹫、蝙蝠与大黄蜂
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:02.87]The Buzzard, the Bat and the Bumblebee美洲鹫、蝙蝠与大黄蜂[00:07.35]If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top, [00:13.81]in spite of his ability to fly, [00:16.10] will be an absolute prisoner. [00:18.94]The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. [00:25.62]Without space to run, as is his habit, [00:28.57] he will not even attempt to fly, [00:30.86] but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top. [00:35.90]The ordinary bat that flies around at night, [00:39.51]a remarkably nimble creature in the air, [00:42.35]cannot take off from a level place. [00:44.54] If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, [00:48.25]all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, [00:52.63] painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. [00:59.96] Then, at once, it takes off like a flash. [01:03.02]A Bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies, [01:08.38]unless it is taken out. [01:10.57]It never sees the means of escape at the top, [01:13.63] but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. [01:18.77] It will seek a way where none exists, [01:21.40]until it completely destroys itself. [01:24.13]In many ways, [01:25.44]there are many people like the buzzard, the bat and the bumblebee. [01:29.71] They struggle about with all their problems and frustrations, [01:34.08]not realizing that the answer is right there “above” them. |
