晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 72 The Year of Wandering
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.98]Passage 72 The Year of Wandering[00:06.12]Between the preparation and the work, [00:09.51]the apprenticeship and the actual dealing with a task or an art, [00:14.66]there comes, in the experience of many young men, [00:18.71]a period of uncertainty and wandering which is often misunderstood and counted as time wasted, [00:27.46]when it is, in fact, a period rich in full and free development. [00:33.37]It is as natural for ardent and courageous youth to wish to know what is in life, [00:41.03]what it means, and what it holds for its children, [00:44.75]as for a child to reach for and search the things that surround and attract it. [00:51.42]Behind every real worker in the world is a real man, [00:56.78]and a man has a right to know the conditions under which he must live, [01:02.80]and the choices of knowledge, power, and activity which are offered him. [01:08.71]In the education of many men and women, therefore, there comes the year of wandering; [01:16.48]the experience of traveling from knowledge to knowledge and from occupation to occupation. [01:23.69]The forces which go to the making of a powerful man can rarely be adjusted and blended [01:31.69]without some disturbance of relations and conditions. [01:36.06]This disturbance is sometimes injurious, [01:40.44]because it affects the moral foundations upon which character rests; [01:45.69]and for this reason the significance of the experience in its relation to development [01:53.13]ought to be sympathetically studied. [01:56.41]The birth of the imagination and of the passions, the perception of the richness of life, [02:04.07]and the consciousness of the possession of the power to master and use that wealth, [02:11.84]create a critical moment in the history of youth, [02:16.10]—a moment richer in possibilities of all kinds than comes at any later period. [02:23.44]Agitation and ferment of soul are inevitable in that wonderful moment. [02:30.11]There are times when agitation is as normal as is self-control at other and less critical times. [02:38.75]The year of wandering is not a manifestation of aimlessness, but of aspiration, [02:46.52]and that in its ferment and uncertainty youth is often guided to [02:52.54]and finally prepared for its task. |
