美國(guó)語(yǔ)文第三冊(cè) 第40期：思索

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"I will think of it." It is easy to say this; but do you know what great things have come from thinking?

“我要想一想。”這話說(shuō)起來(lái)容易；但是，你知道有多少偉大的事物都來(lái)源于思考嗎？

We can not see our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them; and yet what mighty power they have!

我們既看不到思維，也聽(tīng)不到、嘗不到、感受不到它；但它卻有著多么強(qiáng)大的力量呀！

Sir Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer's evening, when he saw an apple fall from a tree.

艾薩克.牛頓先生正是在夏日的一個(gè)傍晚，靜坐于樹(shù)下時(shí)看到了蘋(píng)果從樹(shù)上掉下來(lái)。

He began to think, and, in trying to find out why the apple fell, discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.

他開(kāi)始思考，試圖找出蘋(píng)果掉落的原因，從此他竟然發(fā)現(xiàn)了地球、太陽(yáng)、月亮和星星如何維持自己的位置。

A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down.

一個(gè)叫詹姆斯.瓦特的男孩子在爐邊靜坐時(shí)，觀察著茶壺蓋上上下下地活動(dòng)。

He began to think; he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid.

他也陷入了沉思之中，希望能發(fā)現(xiàn)壺里的蒸氣為什么能夠移動(dòng)沉重的壺蓋。

From that time he went on thinking and thinking;

從那時(shí)起，他就一直在思考；

and when he became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it could, with the greatest ease, do the work of many horses.

當(dāng)他長(zhǎng)大成人后，很快就改進(jìn)了蒸汽機(jī)，使它能夠輕松地代替馬匹工作。

When you see a steamboat, a steam mill, or a locomotive, remember that it would never have been built if it had not been for the hard thinking of some one.

當(dāng)你看到一艘汽船、一個(gè)蒸汽磨或一個(gè)火車(chē)頭時(shí)，要記得如果沒(méi)有某個(gè)人的努力思索，它們永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)出現(xiàn)。

A man named Galileo was once standing in the cathedral of Pisa, when he saw a chandelier swaying to and fro.

一個(gè)名叫伽利略的人，曾經(jīng)在比薩教堂前看到一只吊燈晃來(lái)晃去。

This set him thinking, and it led to the invention of the pendulum.

這讓他陷入了思考之中，從而導(dǎo)致了鐘擺的發(fā)明。

James Ferguson was a poor Scotch shepherd boy.

詹姆斯.弗格森曾經(jīng)是一個(gè)貧窮的蘇格蘭牧童。

Once, seeing the inside of a watch, he was filled with wonder.

有一次，他看到了手表的內(nèi)部構(gòu)造，心中充滿(mǎn)了驚奇。

"Why should I not make a watch?" thought he.

“我為什么不能自己制造一只手表呢？”他想到。

But how was he to get the materials out of which to make the wheels and the main spring?

但是，如何才能得到制作輪子和主發(fā)條的必要材料呢？

He soon found how to get them: he made the main spring out of a piece of whalebone.

很快，他找到了獲取材料的方法：他用一根鯨須制成了主發(fā)條，

He then made a wooden clock which kept good time.

然后他做成了一個(gè)木制時(shí)鐘，運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)情況一直良好。

He began, also, to copy pictures with a pen, and portrait swith oil colors.

同時(shí)，他還會(huì)用鋼筆繪制圖片，用油彩臨摹肖像。

In a few years, while still a small boy, he earned money enough to support his father.

盡管依然還是個(gè)小孩子，可這幾年中，他掙的錢(qián)足以維持自己和父親的生活了。

When he became a man, he went to London to live.

長(zhǎng)大后，他來(lái)到倫敦生活。

Some of the wisest men in England, and the king himself, used to attend his lectures.

英國(guó)的一些聰明人士經(jīng)常聆聽(tīng)他的演講，甚至連國(guó)王也是他的忠實(shí)聽(tīng)眾。

His motto was, "I will think of it;” and he made his thoughts useful to himself and the world.

他的座右銘就是“我要想一想”，而且他的思想不僅有利于自我，甚至還有利于全世界。

Boys, when you have a difficult lesson to learn, don't feel discouraged, and ask someone to help you before helping yourselves.

孩子們，當(dāng)你面對(duì)難題時(shí)，千萬(wàn)不要?dú)怵H，而且在尋求外來(lái)幫助之前，應(yīng)該自己先想想辦法。

Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.

要多思考，通過(guò)思索，你將學(xué)會(huì)如何想要達(dá)到某個(gè)目的。