One Heart & One Soul

英 文 原 文

 ALL Flowers Are Beautiful

【导读】什么是成功？不要以为只有伟人才拥有成功，我们这些凡人与成功无缘。其实，能笑口常开，能赢得孩子的青睐，能欣赏美、发现人的优点；能留给世界些许美好……这些都是成功。所以不一定只有蔷薇才芬芳，就算是最不起眼的蒲公英也能倔强地绽放出属于自己的美丽！

All Flowers Are Beautiful

    I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. At the time, when the noon bell rang, I would race breathlessly home. My mother would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me with a look that suggested I was the only important thing she had on her mind. For this, I am forever grateful.

 One lunch time when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had painstakingly rehearsed my lines with me. But no matter how easily I delivered them at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s part to the play, and asked me to switch roles.

        I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my unease, and asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day. The rose vine was turning green and the yellow dandelions were popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with dabs of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one of the clumps. ＂I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds＂, she said, pulling a blossom up by its roots. ＂From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.＂

 ＂But I like dandelions＂, I said unhappily, ＂All flowers are beautiful even dandelions.＂ My mother looked at me seriously. ＂Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?＂ 

She asked thoughtfully. I nodded.＂ And that is true of peopleNot everyone can be a princess, but there is 

no shame in that.＂ she added.

Her words made me deep in thought, after which I felt happy again.

配译文

所有的花儿都美丽

我是在一个小镇上长大的，从镇上的小学到我家，只需要步行10分钟。在那个时期，也是不久之前，孩子们都能回家吃午饭，并看见他们的母亲正等着他们。那时，每当午时铃声一响，我就一口气往家里跑。我的母亲总是站在门前台阶的最高层，笑意盈盈地望着我——那份神情表明：我是她心目中唯一重要的东西。为此，我一辈子都充满感激。

我永远忘不了在我三年级时的那一顿午饭。之前我被选中，要在一个校园剧中扮演公主的角色。一连好几周，母亲总是不辞辛劳地陪着我，一起练台词。可是，不管在家里背得如何滚瓜烂熟，只要一上舞台，我的脑子里就一片空白。最后，老师把我叫到了一边。她说剧中旁白这个角色的台词已写好了，想把我替换下来当旁白。

那天回家吃午饭时我没有把这事告诉母亲。然而，母亲见我心神不定，问我愿不愿意到院子里散散步。

那真是一个美好的春日，蔷薇的藤蔓正在转青，而一丛丛黄色的蒲公英冒出草坪，仿佛是一位画家特意加上的点点金色。我看到母亲在一簇花丛旁漫不经心地弯下身来。＂我看得把这些野草都拔了，＂她一边说着，一边使劲把一丛蒲公英连根拔出，＂往后咱这院子里只让长蔷薇花。＂

＂可是我喜欢蒲公英＂，我不满地说，＂凡是花都好看——蒲公英也不例外。＂母亲严肃地看着我。＂噢，这么说，每朵花都自有它令人善心悦目的地方喽？＂她若有所思地问道。我点了点头。＂可是人也一样呀，＂母亲接着又说道，＂不见得人人都能当公主，但当不了公主并不丢脸。＂

她的话使我陷入了沉思，之后我又变得快乐起来了。

【重点单词】

1. breathlessly [breθlsl] adv. 一口气地，气喘吁吁地

2. grateful [gretfl] adj.感激的

3. princess [prnses] n.公主

4. painstakingly [penztekl] adv.不辞劳苦地

5. rehearse [rh:s] v. 排练

6. narrator [nret(r)]  n. 讲述者，旁白者

7. vine [van] n.藤；藤本植物

8. dandelion [dændlan] n.蒲公英

9. dab [dæb] n.涂上的少量颜色

10. clump [klmp] n.花丛

【句子结构】

1. I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting.

我是在一个小镇上长大的，从镇上的小学到我家，只需要步行10分钟。在那个时期，也是不久之前，孩子们都能回家吃午饭，并看见他们的母亲正等着他们。

in a small town为地点状语，后跟where引导的定语从句；in an age为时间状语，后跟when引导的定语从句。例如：

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

我们生活在这样一个时代：不必要的东西却成为我们唯一的必需品。

2. My mother would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me with a look that suggested I was the only important thing she had on her mind.

我的母亲总是站在门前台阶的最高层，笑意盈盈地望着我——那份神情表明：我是她心目中唯一重要的东西。

句中smiling引起的部分作伴随状语；look后面的that引导一个定语从句，其中又出现另一个定语从句：先行词thing后跟省略了that的定语从句。suggested一词在句中的意思是＂显示，表明＂，不是＂建议＂之意，故不要用虚拟语气。例如：

His cool response suggested that he didn’t like the idea.

他反应冷淡表明他并不喜欢这个主意。

I suggested to him that we should solve the problem in another way.

我向他建议我们用另一种方式处理这个问题。

3. The rose vine was turning green and the yellow dandelions were popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with dabs of gold.

蔷薇的藤蔓正在转青，而一丛丛黄色的蒲公英冒出草坪，仿佛是一位画家特意加上的点点金色。

这是一个并列复合句，as if后跟虚拟语气句。例如：

He behaved as if nothing had happened.

他装作若无其事的样子。

4. Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.

不见得人人都能当公主，但当不了公主并不丢脸。

这是一个并列句，前一个分句为部分否定，后一个分句为there be结构。例如：

Not all the students have read the book.

不是所有的学生都读过那本书。