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　　關於著名英語美文：堅持你的夢想

　　I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Sedro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.

　　The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, "I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from farm and ranch-to-ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.

　　"That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on the 200-acre dream ranch.

　　"He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, 'See me after class.'

　　"The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, 'Why did I receive an F?'

　　"The teacher said, 'this is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to pay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it.' Then the teacher added, 'If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.'

　　"The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, 'Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this However, I think it is a very important decision for you.'

　　"Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He stated, 'You can keep the F and I'll keep my dream.'"

　　Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace." He added, "The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same school-teacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week." When the teacher was leaving, he said, 'Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids' dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.'"

　　Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

　　關於著名英語美文：你就是個奇蹟 A Marvel

　　Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again … And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.

　　When will we also teach them what they are?

　　We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.

　　You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

　　You must work — we must all work — to make the world worth of its children.

　　---Pablo Casals

　　中文翻譯：

　　我們活著的每一秒都是獨一無二的

　　我們活著的每一秒都是世界上獨一無二、不可重現的。我們應該教給我們的孩子些什麼呢?2+2=4，法國的首都是巴黎?

　　我們應該對他們每一個說：你知道自己是什麼嗎?——你是一個奇蹟。你是獨一無二的。過往的所有日子裡，從來沒有出現過像你一樣的孩子。你的腿，你的手，你靈巧的手指，你的一舉一動都是與眾不同的。

　　你可以成為莎士比亞，米開朗琪羅，或者是貝多芬。你有成就一切的能力。是的，你是一個奇蹟。而當你長大之後，你會忍心去傷害另一個如你一般的奇蹟麼?

　　我們必須同心協力，讓這個世界成為值得孩子們生活的樂土。

　　關於著名英語美文：鼓勵的力量

　　Some of the greatest success stories of history have followed a word of encouragement or an act of confidence by a loved one or a trusting friend. Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed among the great names of literature the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne. When Nathaniel, a heartbroken man, went home to tell his wife that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in a customhouse, she surprised him with an exclamation of joy.

　　"Now," she said triumphantly, "you can write your book!"

　　"Yes," replied the man, with sagging confidence, "and what shall we live on while I am writing it?"

　　To his amazement, she opened a drawer and pulled out a substantial amount of money.

　　"Where on earth did you get that?" he exclaimed.

　　"I have always know you were a man of genius," she told him. "I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece. So every week, out of the money you gave me for housekeeping, I saved a little bit. So here is enough to last us for one whole year."

　　From her trust and confidence came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter.