05 Eagle in a Storm风雨中的雄鹰
Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks?The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the winds will pick it up and lift it above the storm.While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it.The eagle does not escape the storm.It simply uses the storm to lift it higher.It rises on the winds that bring the storm.
你知道在暴风雨来临之前，鹰早就能发觉吗？鹰会飞到一个高点，等待起风。当暴风雨来临的时候，它调整翅膀以至于风能够把它带起来，升高到暴风雨的上面。暴风雨在下面肆虐，鹰就在上面翱翔。鹰并没有躲过暴风雨，它只是利用暴风雨使自身升高。它飞到了气流的上面。
When the storms of life come upon us and all of us will experience them, we can rise above them by setting our belief that we can make it. The storms do not have to overcome us.We can allow our inner power to lift us above them.We can enable ourselves to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure and disappointment in our lives.We can soar above the storm.Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down；it is how we handle them.
当生活中的暴风雨降临，我们人人都要经历的时候，我们也可以通过建立我们能够成功的信念来驾驭这些苦难。困难不一定要击垮我们。我们可以让我们内心的力量来帮助自己去驾驭困难。我们能够去驾驭那些给我们的生活带来疾病、灾难、失败和沮丧的暴风雨。我们可以在风雨之上翱翔。切记，让我们疲惫不堪的并不是生活的重担，而是我们处理困难的方式。
单词解析 Word Analysis
例 He was too weak even to lift his hand.
他虚弱得连手都抬不起来。
例 That is why the storms rage so fiercely on the sea.
这就是海上刮起这样凶猛的暴风的原因。
例 The information below was compiled by our correspondent.
以下资料是我们的记者收集整理的。
例 The eagle can soar without flapping their wings.
老鹰无需振翼就能翱翔。
例 How do we set the enrollment criteria?
我们如何设定录取标准？
例 Tragedy is in store for that poor girl from the beginning.
从一开始，那个女孩的悲剧就是不可避免的。
例 The burden on his back seemed to be crushing him to the earth.
他背上的重负似乎要把他压倒在地。
语法知识点 Grammar Points
①When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm.
这个句子中，开头是when引导的时间状语从句，之后是so that引导的目的状语从句，表示“it sets its wings”的目的。
例 We turned on the light so that we might see（=so as to see）what it was.
我们把灯打开，以便看看它是什么。
Bring it closer so that I may see it better.
把它拿近点儿，让我仔细看看。
They put a screen around his bed so that the doctor could examine him.
他们在他床的四周放上屏风，以便医生给他检查。
pick up 是固定搭配，表示“捡起；收集；继续；得到；接人；偶然结识；站起，扶起；学会；逮捕；振作精神”
例 He picked up the child and put her on his shoulders.
他抱起孩子让她骑在自己的肩膀上。
He picked up news from all sources.
他从各种渠道收集消息。
She's living with a man she picked up on holiday.
她与一个在假日认识的男人同住。
②When the storms of life come upon us and all of us will experience them we can rise above them by setting our belief that we can make it.
这个句子中，前面是when引导的时间状语从句，最后一部分是that引导的同位语，先行词是belief，从句是对belief的解释说明，that在从句中不做任何成分。
例 The news that our school team won the game excited us.
我们校队赢了比赛的消息令我们非常振奋。
③We can enable ourselves to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure and disappointment in our lives.
这个句子中，enable sb.to do sth.表示能够让某人干某事
例 This pass enables me to travel half-price on trains.
我用这张通行证可以半价乘火车旅行。
He invented a machine to enable people in wheelchairs to get up stairs.
他发明了一个机器可以使坐在轮椅上的人上楼梯。
后面是that引导的定语从句，先行词是the winds of the storm, that 在从句中做主语。
④Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down；it is how we handle them.
这个句子是个强调句，结构为“it is……+that……”，把这一结构去掉后句子仍完整。
例 It is the book that helps me to learn cooking.
这本书帮我学做饭。
weigh down 使……负重担；使疲惫不堪；使沉重
例 Jane weighed down her repertory with these plays.
这几出戏使简的演出剧目得到了加强。
经典名句 Famous Classics
1.It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them.
人们通常在小的时候拥有最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但这些理想往往赚不到钱。
2.He is a fine friend.He stabs you in the front.
在你面前攻击你的人，往往是你的好朋友。
3.Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。
4.It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
对朋友们来说，知道我们对他们坦诚以待是非常重要的；而对友谊来说，同样重要的是，不要真的对他们事事相告。
5.The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
6.Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship；and pass the rosy wine.
让友谊的翅膀煽起逐渐熄灭的欢乐的火苗；把红酒拿上桌来吧。
7.The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.
有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是——真、善、美。
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