英语智慧背囊 09-生命的拼搏
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:03.06]Life Struggle生命的拼搏[00:06.53] Once upon a time in a land far far away, [00:10.06] there was a wonderful old man who loved everything. [00:14.08] Animals, spiders, insects... [00:17.50]One day while walking through the woods [00:20.28]the nice old man found a cocoon of a butterfly. [00:23.67] He took it home. [00:25.42]A few days later, a small opening appeared; [00:29.15]he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours [00:32.97]as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. [00:37.67]Then it seemed to stop making any progress. [00:41.42]It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could [00:45.00] and it could go no farther. [00:47.54]Then the man decided to help the butterfly, [00:50.38] so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. [00:55.97]The butterfly then emerged easily. [00:58.70]But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. [01:03.34] The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, [01:08.00]at any moment, [01:09.23]the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, [01:13.28]which would contract in time. [01:15.24] Neither happened! [01:17.01]In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life [01:20.41]crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. [01:24.00]It never was able to fly. [01:26.72]What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand [01:30.77]was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly [01:35.34]to get through the tiny opening [01:37.33] were Nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings [01:42.92]so that it would be ready for flight [01:45.15]once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. [01:48.48]Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. [01:52.64] If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, [01:56.91]it would cripple us. [01:58.40]We would not be as strong as what we could have been. [02:01.50]And we could never fly. |
