Care for Your Dream 關(guān)愛(ài)夢(mèng)想
一個(gè)人的成長(zhǎng)過(guò)程中會(huì)不斷有夢(mèng)想產(chǎn)生,有些夢(mèng)想變成了現(xiàn)實(shí),而有些夢(mèng)想?yún)s破滅了。夢(mèng)想的破滅,是因?yàn)樗鼪](méi)有得到精心的照料。夢(mèng)想一旦破滅,青春之花也便凋零了,因?yàn)閴?mèng)想是青春的光和熱。去呵護(hù)你的夢(mèng)想吧!勇敢地站在舞臺(tái)中央,跳一曲快樂(lè)的人生芭蕾。
My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me.
I always had the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina twirling around and around and hearing people applaud for me. When I was young, I would twirl around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard.
I thought that if I twirled faster everything would disappear and I would wake up in a new place. Reality woke me up when I heard a voice saying, "I don't know why you bother trying to dance. Ballerinas are pretty, slender little girls. Besides, you don't have the talent to even be a ballerina." I remember how those words paralyzed every feeling in my body. I fell to the ground and wept for hours.
We lived in the country by a nearby lake. I did not like to be at home. When my parents were home, my mother just yelled and criticized because nothing was ever perfect in her life. She dreamed of a different life but she ended up living in the country far away from the city where she believed her dreams would have come true.
I enjoyed hanging out by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection. There I was, looking nothing like a pretty ballerina dancer. Reflections don't lie. Once the waves would come, my reflection was gone. Washed away just like my dream to dance.
As I grew older, I began to realize that the reason my dream was even born, was because it was something that was inside of me. The dream I had was never nurtured and cared for, so it slowly died. It's not that I wanted it to die, but I allowed it to die the day I started listening to the words, "You can't do it." When I finally woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that you can't settle for dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the platform.
精美譯文:
我一出生,夢(mèng)想就結(jié)束了,然而當(dāng)時(shí)我卻毫不知曉,仍執(zhí)著于一些永無(wú)實(shí)現(xiàn)之日的事情。我的確懷有許多夢(mèng)想。不過(guò),當(dāng)早晨醒來(lái)之時(shí),所記起的卻只是一場(chǎng)夢(mèng)境而已。我的經(jīng)歷就是如此。
我一直夢(mèng)想著像一個(gè)美麗的芭蕾演員一樣跳舞,輕盈地旋來(lái)轉(zhuǎn)去,耳邊是人們的掌聲喝彩。小時(shí)候,我常常在自家后院長(zhǎng)滿(mǎn)野花的草地上練習(xí)芭蕾舞的旋轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)作。
我想要是我轉(zhuǎn)得再快一點(diǎn),眼前的一切都會(huì)消失,我將會(huì)獲得一方新的天地。然而現(xiàn)實(shí)喚醒了我,我聽(tīng)到一個(gè)聲音說(shuō):“我不明白你為什么不厭其煩地嘗試跳舞。跳芭蕾舞的人都長(zhǎng)得漂亮、苗條、嬌小可愛(ài)。還有,你也沒(méi)有跳芭蕾舞的天分?!庇浀卯?dāng)時(shí)那些話(huà)讓我的全身都失去了知覺(jué)。我癱倒在地上,哭了好幾個(gè)小時(shí)。
我們家住在鄉(xiāng)下,附近有一個(gè)湖。我不喜歡呆在家里,媽媽總是在家里大喊大叫著抱怨生活處處不如意。她曾經(jīng)夢(mèng)想住在城市里,只有在那里她的理想才能實(shí)現(xiàn),而后來(lái)卻住在這遠(yuǎn)離城市的鄉(xiāng)下,這與她的理想完全兩樣。
我喜歡到水邊呆著,在那,常常一坐就是幾個(gè)小時(shí),靜靜地望著水中我的倒影。水中的我哪也不像一個(gè)漂亮的芭蕾舞演員,倒影從不撒謊。微波蕩過(guò)倒影消失了,就像我的跳舞的夢(mèng)想一樣消失了。
隨著我的成長(zhǎng)我開(kāi)始明白之所以我的夢(mèng)產(chǎn)生,是因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)夢(mèng)就在我心里。而我的夢(mèng)想從未得到過(guò)培育和呵護(hù),因此它慢慢地死去了。我并不想讓它死去,但是從我聽(tīng)到“你辦不到”這種話(huà)的那一天,我卻放任了它的死去。最后,當(dāng)我從多年來(lái)的夢(mèng)想中醒來(lái)時(shí),我才明白過(guò)來(lái):你不能滿(mǎn)足于在野花叢中跳舞,你必須設(shè)法到舞臺(tái)上去跳。
注釋?zhuān)?
1.hold on to v.堅(jiān)持
2.ballerina n.芭蕾舞女演員
3.twirl vi.轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng), 旋轉(zhuǎn)
4.slender adj.苗條的,修長(zhǎng)的
5.paralyze vt.使癱瘓, 使麻痹
6.end up結(jié)束
7.hang out 閑逛, (在某處)閑呆著
8.reflection n.倒影
9.nothing like沒(méi)有什么能比得上
10.wash away 沖走
11.nurture v.培育,培養(yǎng)
12.settle for 滿(mǎn)足于
13.platform n.平臺(tái),舞臺(tái)
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