托??谡Z(yǔ)優(yōu)秀范文賞析:劫后余生

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    Over 65% of his body was severely burned. The leather motorcycle jacket saved most of his body, but didn’t save his hands. His helmet saved his life, but did little to save his face. While he was in a coma for two weeks, the doctors hid the one thing they feared would kill him once he woke up—and that was a mirror. They feared the shock of seeing himself after the accident with his badly burned, distorted new face just might be too much for him. The doctors were wrong; unbelievably, he endured the process. 他的身體有超過(guò) 65% 的面積嚴(yán)重?zé)齻?。騎摩托車(chē)專(zhuān)用的皮外套保住了他的大半個(gè)身子,卻沒(méi)能保住他的雙手;頭盔救了他的命,卻沒(méi)能保住他的臉。在他昏迷的兩周時(shí)間里,醫(yī)生們把一樣?xùn)|西藏了起來(lái),他們害怕一旦他醒過(guò)來(lái)它會(huì)要了他的命——這個(gè)東西就是鏡子。他們怕他看到自己出事之后嚴(yán)重?zé)齻?、已?jīng)變形的臉,會(huì)承受不住這個(gè)打擊。醫(yī)生們估計(jì)錯(cuò)了:他不可思議地挺過(guò)來(lái)了。
    From that incident, Mitchell became passionate to share his story that you could look like amonster on the outside and still be a good person—warm, funny, and caring—on the inside. 通過(guò)這件事,米切爾變得樂(lè)于和別人分享他的故事:你可以外表像個(gè)丑八怪,內(nèi)心卻依然是個(gè)熱情、幽默、關(guān)心別人的好人。
    “Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things that I could do. Now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I lost, or focus on the 9,000 I have left, ” Mitchell states bravely. “在我癱瘓之前,我有 1 萬(wàn)件事可以做,現(xiàn)在只剩下 9000 件了,我要么成天想著我那已經(jīng)失去的 1000 件,要么只想我這留下的 9000 件。”米切爾勇敢地說(shuō)道。
    Just when everything seemed to be smooth sailing again, the unbelievable happened. Back doing the hobby he loved—flying—Mitchell’s plane crashed when the wings iced up on takeoff. “It appears you will never walk again. It appears you’ll have to use a wheelchair for the rest of your life, ” whispered his doctor. 就在一切似乎又風(fēng)平浪靜的時(shí)候,一件不可思議的事情發(fā)生了。他重新?lián)炱鹆怂臉I(yè)余愛(ài)好——飛行。可是起飛的時(shí)候,機(jī)翼結(jié)了冰,飛機(jī)墜毀了。“看起來(lái)你沒(méi)法兒再行走了,看起來(lái)你要終身坐在輪椅上了。”醫(yī)生小聲說(shuō)道。
    “Why me? I laid in bed and wondered if there was anything left of my life, ” reflects Mitchell. There certainly was, despite what had happened. In the hospital, he met a pretty, young nurse who assisted him, named Annie Baker. A few years later, to everyone’s amazement but Mitchell’s, he married her. “為什么是我?我躺在床上,心想我這輩子究竟還有沒(méi)有戲。”米切爾回憶道。當(dāng)然還有,盡管發(fā)生了那么多事情。在醫(yī)院里,他遇見(jiàn)了一位年輕漂亮的護(hù)士,她給了他幫助,她名叫安妮 · 貝克。幾年以后,他娶了她,這讓除了他自己之外的所有人大為驚訝。
    Today, Mitchell is one of the world’s top motivational public speakers giving over 70 talks per year to audiences around the world. He has also been awarded the prestigious CPAE, Council of Peers Award of Excellence—the highest award for professionalism bestowed by the National Speakers Association. 現(xiàn)在,米切爾是世界上最頂尖的勵(lì)志演說(shuō)家之一,他每年要在世界各地做 70 多場(chǎng)演講。他還獲得了著名的 CPAE(同業(yè)者委員會(huì)優(yōu)秀獎(jiǎng))的獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)——這是國(guó)家演講者協(xié)會(huì)頒發(fā)的最高成就獎(jiǎng)。
    Vocabulary
    disaster n. 災(zāi)難
    leather n. 皮革
    motorcycle n. 摩托車(chē)
    helmet n. 頭盔
    coma n. 昏迷
    distorted a. 變形的
    too much for 非…力所能及
    incident n. 事件
    Mitchell 米切爾
    passionate a. 熱情的
    monster n. 怪物
    paralyze v. 使癱瘓
    dwell on 老是想著
    state v. 說(shuō)明hobby n. 業(yè)余愛(ài)好
    crash v. 墜毀
    ice up 結(jié)冰
    takeoff n. 起飛
    wheelchair n. 輪椅
    reflect v. 深思
    Annie Baker 安妮 · 貝克
    to sb.’s amazement 令某人驚異的是
    public speaker 演說(shuō)家
    prestigious a. 有威望的
    CPAE 同業(yè)者委員會(huì)優(yōu)秀獎(jiǎng)
    peer n. 同輩, 同事
    professionalism n. 職業(yè)水準(zhǔn)
    bestow v. 授予
    the National Speakers
    Association 國(guó)家演講者協(xié)會(huì)
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