Run Freely 自由奔跑

 A Lesson About Courage

小丫：“从婴儿到少年，从少年到青年……我们在不断成长，同时我们也在不断失去。知识在增长，阅历在增加，我们越来越有城府，越来越顾虑重重，越来越迷失自我。因为经验，我们戴上了生活的虚假面具；因为恐惧，我们把真实的自我挡在了幕后；因为失败，我们丧失了追求成功的勇气。成长，让我们背上了精神的枷锁。仔细品味下文，解放出那个潜藏在你内心的被绑缚了的‘小男孩’。”

One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I parked the car by the curb¹, across the street from where she worked, and waited for her.

As I looked outside the car window to my right, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around one and a half to two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, and without hesitation² or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.（to be continued）

多年前的一个下午，我驱车去接母亲下班。因为我到得稍微有点早，就把车子停靠在了母亲单位对面的路边上，等候母亲。

我透过车子的右窗，看见一个小小的公园，公园里有个小男孩，约摸一岁半到两岁的样子，在草地上自由地跑来跑去，他妈妈就在不远处看着他。小男孩笑得很开心，好像刚从牢笼里释放出来似的。他摔倒了，爬起来，毫不犹豫，也不回头看看妈妈，接着就跑啊跑，然后再摔倒，再爬起来，笑容始终挂在脸上，仿佛什么事都没发生似的。（待续）

（华静、崔运喜编译）

小丫财富大统计

→重点短语

pick up 接，捡起, 获得

I am going to airport to pick up my friend.

我要去机场接我的朋友。

as if 似乎，仿佛

She spoke³ to me as if she knew me.

她和我说话的神情，好像她早就认识我似的。

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However, with kids (especially at an early age), when they fall down, they don't perceive their falling down as failure, but instead, they treat it as a learning experience (as just another result/outcome). They feel compelled to try and try again until they succeed. (The answer must be...they have not associated "falling down" with the word "failure" yet, thus they don't know how to feel the state which accompanies failure. As a result, they are not disempowered in any way. Plus, they probably think to themselves that it's perfectly⁴ okay to fall down, that it's not wrong to do so. In other words, they give themselves permission to make mistakes, subconsciously⁵. Thus they remain empowered.)

While I was touched by the boy's persistence⁶, I was equally touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so confident...so natural. No signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged — as if he didn't give a care about the world around him. （to be continued）

然而，孩子们却不这样，尤其是幼童，当他们摔倒的时候，他们并不把摔倒视为失败；相反，他们把它看作是学习经验的过程，是另外的成就或结果。他们觉得必须尝试，再尝试，直到成功。其实，问题的答案就在于孩子并没有把“摔倒”与“失败”联系起来，所以他们感受不到失败的滋味，也不会因此而泄气。或许他们还觉得摔倒完全没有关系，要是不摔倒才不合理呢。换句话说，他们在潜意识中允许自己犯错误，这样，他们就总保持着干劲。

小男孩的毅力感动了我，同样，他奔跑的那种劲头也感动了我。每一次尝试，他都看起来那么的信心十足，那么的自然自如，没有一点恐惧、紧张、气馁的迹象，好像根本不把周围的世界放在眼里似的。（待续）

（华静、崔运喜编译）

小丫财富大统计

→重点短语

in any way adv.以任何方式,无论如何

They claim that they will not lose the championship in any way.

他们声称要无论如何都要赢得冠军。

In other words adv.换句话说

In other words, when the wind is blowing at 120 kilometers per hour, most waves will be about twelve meters.

换句话说,当风速为每小时一百二十公里时大部分波浪高约为十二米。

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His only aim was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a child — just being himself—being completely in the moment. He was not looking for approval or was not worrying about whether someone was watching or not. He wasn't concerned about being judged. He didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him fall (as there were others in the park aside from him and his mother) and that it would be embarrassing if he did fall. No, all that mattered to him was to accomplish the task or activity at hand to the best of his ability. To run...and to feel the experience of running fully⁷ and freely. I learned a lot from that observation and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits in life.

他惟一的目标就是自由地奔跑，全神贯注地奔跑。他的行为正是孩子的天性，他活出了真实的自我，就在此时此刻。他不寻求他人的认可，也不担心是否有人旁观。他不在乎别人的评判。他好像也根本不去想有人会看到他摔倒这样令人难为情的事（除了他和妈妈以外，公园里还有其他人）。是的，对他来说，重要的就是尽己所能地完成手头的事情或活动——奔跑，体验自由地全力奔跑的乐趣。看到此情此景，我很受启发，并成功地把这些启示落实到了我生活的各种追求之中。

从那以后，我就一直坚信，在我们每一个人的内心都有一个勇敢无畏的孩子——一个能自由奔跑的孩子，或者玩得彻底而无拘无束地展示自我的孩子——不在乎外界的事物，不在乎自己摔倒了人们会怎么说。我相信只要我们活着，我们内心那个勇敢的部分、那个勇敢的孩子会永远与我们同在。我们只需要让他更彻底地释放出来，我们只需要再次与我们内心的那个孩子联络起来，允许他自由地奔跑，就像公园里的那个小男孩。

（华静、崔运喜编译）

小丫财富大统计

→重点单词

pursuit.n. 追求, 寻求

Tom is lucky in his pursuit of happiness

汤姆在追求幸福的事情上很幸运。

courageous⁸./ adj. 无畏的,勇敢的,英勇的

His courageous deed obtained the admiration⁹ of people.

他的英勇行为赢得了人们的称赞。

1 curb   

n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制

参考例句：

• I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
• You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。

2 hesitation   

n.犹豫，踌躇

参考例句：

• After a long hesitation, he told the truth at last.踌躇了半天，他终于直说了。
• There was a certain hesitation in her manner.她的态度有些犹豫不决。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

5 subconsciously   

ad.下意识地，潜意识地

参考例句：

• In choosing a partner we are subconsciously assessing their evolutionary fitness to be a mother of children or father provider and protector. 在选择伴侣的时候，我们会在潜意识里衡量对方将来是否会是称职的母亲或者父亲，是否会是合格的一家之主。
• Lao Yang thought as he subconsciously tightened his grasp on the rifle. 他下意识地攥紧枪把想。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

6 persistence   

n.坚持，持续，存留

参考例句：

• The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.他女儿持续的咳嗽把他难住了。
• He achieved success through dogged persistence.他靠着坚持不懈取得了成功。

7 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

8 courageous   

adj.勇敢的，有胆量的

参考例句：

• We all honour courageous people.我们都尊重勇敢的人。
• He was roused to action by courageous words.豪言壮语促使他奋起行动。

9 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。