智慧背囊 思想的珍珠-09-生命的拼搏

[00:03.06]Life Struggle生命的拼搏
[00:06.53]　　 Once upon a time in a land far far away,
[00:10.06] there was a wonderful old man who loved everything.
[00:14.08] Animals, spiders, insects...
[00:17.50]One day while walking through the woods
[00:20.28]the nice old man found a cocoon¹ of a butterfly.
[00:23.67] He took it home.
[00:25.42]A few days later, a small opening appeared;
[00:29.15]he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
[00:32.97]as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.
[00:37.67]Then it seemed to stop making any progress.
[00:41.42]It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could
[00:45.00] and it could go no farther.
[00:47.54]Then the man decided² to help the butterfly,
[00:50.38] so he took a pair of scissors and snipped³ off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
[00:55.97]The butterfly then emerged easily.
[00:58.70]But it had a swollen⁴ body and small, shriveled wings.
[01:03.34] The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that,
[01:08.00]at any moment,
[01:09.23]the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body,
[01:13.28]which would contract in time.
[01:15.24] Neither happened!
[01:17.01]In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life
[01:20.41]crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
[01:24.00]It never was able to fly.
[01:26.72]What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand
[01:30.77]was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly
[01:35.34]to get through the tiny opening
[01:37.33] were Nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings
[01:42.92]so that it would be ready for flight
[01:45.15]once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
[01:48.48]Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.
[01:52.64] If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles,
[01:56.91]it would cripple us.
[01:58.40]We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
[02:01.50]　　And we could never fly.

1 cocoon   

n.茧

参考例句：

• A cocoon is a kind of silk covering made by an insect.蚕茧是由昆虫制造的一种由丝组成的外包层。
• The beautiful butterfly emerged from the cocoon.美丽的蝴蝶自茧中出现。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 snipped   

v.剪( snip的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He snipped off the corner of the packet. 他将包的一角剪了下来。 来自辞典例句
• The police officer snipped the tape and untied the hostage. 警方把胶带剪断，松绑了人质。 来自互联网

4 swollen   

adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀

参考例句：

• Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
• A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。