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英語短篇美文:英語美文摘抄"愛美的天性"
2015-04-01 14:11
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide them, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused - a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love - then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.
我真誠地相信,對於兒童以及期望引導兒童的父母來說,感覺力比理解力相對更為重要。如果將事實比作是以後會萌發知識和智慧的「種子」的話,那麼,情感激情與感官印象就好比是肥沃的「土壤」,「種子」離開它就無法生長。童年早期是準備、培育「土壤」的時期。一旦喚起了內心中的種種情感,如美感、對新鮮事物和未知事物的興奮感、同情心、惻隱之心、欽慕之情、愛慕之心,我們繼而就會希望獲得關於引起我們產生情感反應的事物的知識。而這種知識一旦獲得,就會產生深遠的意義與影響。顯而易見,培養、激發孩子的求知慾與探究欲,比像飲食似地讓孩子吞咽下他還吸收不了的種種知識更為重要。
I am sure there is something much deeper, something lasting and significant. Those who dwell, as scientists or laypeople, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the problems or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner satisfaction and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
我確信有某種深刻得多的東西,某種持久而意義深淵的東西。那些生活在地球上的美與神奇的東西之間的科學家或者準科學家,永遠不會孤單或對生活趕到厭倦.無論他們的個人生活有什麼問題或憂慮,他們的思想都能夠知道到同往內心的滿足和對生活重燃激情的途徑.那些凝視地球之美的人能找到終生受用的力量儲備.在鳥類的遷徙中,在潮水的漲落中,在含苞待放的花蕾中,即有距離的美也有象徵性的美.在大自然反反覆覆的循環中,有一種具有無限的治癒力的東西-黑夜過後一定是黎明,冬天過後必然是春天.
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