雙語閱讀：創造奇蹟:從不說他做不到
以下是小編整理的哲理類英語美文欣賞：創造奇蹟:從不說他做不到， 希望對你有所啓發。
We Never Told Him He Couldn’t Do It
My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctorsassured us that with treatment he would be able towalk normally - but would never run very well. Thefirst three years of his life were spent in surgery,casts and braces. By the time he was eight, youwouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw himwalk.
The children in our neighborhood ran around asmost children do during play, and Joey would jumpright in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to run aswell as the other children. So he didn’t know.
In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trainedwith the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others - perhaps he sensedthat the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally tohim. Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to scorepoints for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’tknow.
He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a 103-degreefever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. Iasked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down hisface and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn’t know.
Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on thelist. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were alleighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn’t expect to make the team. We never told him hecouldn’t do it. We never told him he couldn’t do he didn’t know. He just did it.
我的兒子瓊尼降生時，他的雙腳向上彎彎着，醫生向我們保證說經過治療，小瓊尼可以像常人一樣走路，但像常人一樣跑步的可能性則微乎其微。瓊尼3歲之前一直在接受治療，和支架、石膏模子打交道。七八歲的時候，他走路的樣子已讓人看不出他的腿有過毛病。
鄰居的小孩子們做遊戲的時候總是跑過來跑過去。毫無疑問小瓊尼看到他們玩就會馬上加進去跑啊鬧的。我們從不告訴他不能像別的孩子那樣跑，我們從不說他和別的孩子不一樣。因爲我們不對他說，所以他不知道。
七年級的時候，瓊尼決定參加跑步橫穿全美的比賽。每天他和大夥一塊訓練。也許是意識到自己先天不如別人，他訓練得比任何人都刻苦。訓練隊的前7名選手可以參加最後比賽，爲學校拿分。我們沒有告訴瓊尼;也許會落空，所以他不知道。
他堅持每天跑4~5英里。我永遠不會忘記有一次，他發着高燒，但仍堅持訓練。我爲他擔心，於是去學校看他，發現他正在一個人沿着長長的林蔭道跑步呢。我問他感覺怎麼樣，"很好。"他說。還剩下最後兩英里。他滿臉是汗，眼睛因爲發燒失去了光彩。然而他目不斜視，堅持着跑下來。我們從沒有告訴他不能發着高燒去跑4英里的路，我們從沒有這樣對他說，所以他不知道。
兩個星期後，在決賽前的3天，長跑隊的名次被確定下來。瓊尼是第六名，他成功了。他纔是個七年級生，而其餘的人都是八年級生。我們從沒有告訴他不要去期望入選，我們從沒有對他說他不會成功。是的，從沒說起過……所以他不知道，但他卻做到了!
