【经典晨读美文】梦想改变生活(2/3)
来源:沪江听写酷
2014-02-13 04:00
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"Dreams? We don't have any dreams."
I said, "Well, when you were a kid, what happened? Wasn't there something you wanted to do?"
One woman said to me, "I don't know what you can do with dreams. The rats are eating my kids."
"Oh," I said, "that's terrible! No. Of course you're very much involved with the rats and your kids. How can that be helped?"
"Well, I could use a new screen door, because there are holes in my screen door."
I asked, "Is there anybody around you who knows how to fix a screen door?"
"Maybe I can have a try," a man said.
The next week when the group was seated, I said to the woman, "Well, is your screen door fixed?"
"Oh, yes," she said.
"Then we can start dreaming, can't we?"
我问他们梦想是什么。大家却都以一种古怪的表情看着我。“梦想?我们没有梦想。”
我说:“好的。那么你还是个孩子的时候发生过什么?那时难道就没有什么你想要做的事情吗?”
一位妇女说:“我不知道你可以用梦想解决什么问题。我只知道我的孩子正在一口一口的被老鼠吃掉。”
“哦,”我说,“真是太恐怖了。不,当然。你的确被这些老鼠和孩子所累。怎样做才能阻止这种事情的发生呢?”
“唉,我家纱门上都是洞,我需要一个新的纱门。”
“在座的各位,有谁会装纱门?”我问、
“或许我可以试试。”一位男士说道。
下周五,大家又坐到一起时,我问哪位女士,“新纱门装好了吗?”
“噢,是的。”她答道。
“那么,我们可以开始梦想了,对不对?”她看着我,笑得很开心。