一棵树给我们的启示：创伤，让我们更坚强

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[00:04.92]30 Strengthened by Our Wounds	创伤，让我们更坚强
[00:07.62](By Po Bronson)	（译 / 郑衍文）
[00:11.36]Po Bronson, in his book WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE?(Random House, 2005), tells a true story about a magnificent elm tree. 坡・布朗森在他的著作《我为什么爱这些人？》(兰登书屋，2005 年出版)中讲述了一棵大榆树的真实故事。
[00:22.17]The tree was planted in the first half of the 20th century on a farm near Beulah, Michigan (USA).・2世纪上半叶，在（美国）密歇根州尤拉镇附近的一个农场，有人种下了一棵榆树。
[00:29.70]It grew to be a magnificent tree.	它最终长成了一棵参天大树。
[00:32.60]In the 1950s, the family that owned the farm kept a bull chained to the elm. ・20世纪50年代,这家农场的主人用铁链把一头公牛拴在了榆树下。
[00:39.04]The bull paced around the tree, dragging a heavy iron chain with him,which scraped a trench in the bark about three feet off ground. 公牛拖着重重的铁链绕着榆树转来转去，在榆树距地面约三英尺的树皮上勒出了一道沟痕。
[00:48.74]The trench deepened over the years, though for whatever reason, did not kill the tree.	年复一年，勒痕越来越深，不过不知什么原因，这并没把榆树置于死地。
[00:54.90]After some years, the family sold the farm and took their bull. 几年之后，这户人家卖掉了农场，带走了公牛。
[00:59.45]They cut the chain, leaving the loop around the tree and one link hanging down. 他们砍断了铁链，只留下紧箍在树上的一圈铁链和垂下来的一小节链条。
[01:04.30]Over the years, bark slowly covered the rusting chain.	岁月悠悠，榆树皮慢慢裹住了那条生锈的铁链。
[01:08.79]Then one year, agricultural catastrophe struck Michigan in the form of Dutch Elm Disease . 之后有一年，荷兰榆树病袭击了密歇根州，造成了一场严重的农业灾难，
[01:15.93]It left a path of death across vast areas. 在广袤的原野上留下了一条死亡之路。
[01:19.09]All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected and died. 通向农场道路两旁的所有榆树都染病而死。
[01:25.39]Everyone figured that old, stately elm would be next. 每个人都以为，那棵古老、伟岸的榆树也无法幸免于难。
[01:29.65]There was no way the tree could last, between the encroaching fungus and its chain belt strangling its trunk.	在病菌侵袭和树干被铁链勒杀的夹击下，这棵树绝对无法存活。
[01:37.10]The farm's owners considered doing the safe thing, pulling it out and chopping it up into firewood before it died and blew over onto the barn in a windstorm. 为了安全起见，农场的主人曾想把榆树连根拔出，劈了作柴火，以免它死后被暴风吹倒砸坏谷仓。
[01:47.93]But they simply could not bring themselves to do it . 可无论如何他们都不忍下手。
[01:51.37]It was as if the old tree had become a family friend. 这棵榆树好像已经成了他们全家人的朋友。
[01:55.12]So they decided to let nature take its course .	于是，他们决定顺其自然，任它自生自灭。
[01:58.44]Amazingly, the tree did not die. 令人惊讶的是，这棵树并没有死。
[02:01.78]Year after year it thrived. 年复一年，榆树愈加枝繁叶茂。
[02:04.29]Nobody could understand why it was the only elm still standing in the county!	没人能想明白为何该县唯有这棵榆树依然挺立！
[02:09.63]Plant pathologists from Michigan State University came out to study the tree. 密歇根州州立大学的植物病理学家来研究了这棵榆树。
[02:15.37]They observed the scar left by the iron chain, now almost completely covered by bark and badly corroded .	他们注意到那条铁链留下的疤痕，而铁链现在几乎完全被树皮裹住了，并且锈蚀得很厉害。
[02:23.00]The plant experts decided that it was the chain that saved the elm's life. 植物专家们断定，正是那条铁链救了榆树一命。
[02:27.72]They reasoned that the tree must have absorbed so much iron from the rusting chain, that it became immune to the fungus.	他们推测，这棵榆树一定是从那条生锈的铁链上吸收了很多铁质，才使得它对那种病菌产生了免疫力。
[02:35.91]It's said that what doesn't kill you will make you stronger. 据说，没能把你置于死地的必将让你变得更强壮。
[02:40.41]Or, as Ernest Hemingway put it, "Life breaks us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken places."	或者，正如欧内斯特・海明威所说：“生活让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方会变成我们最强壮的地方。”
[02:49.72]The next time you're in Beulah, Michigan, look for that beautiful elm. 下一次，你若来到密歇根州的比尤拉镇，去找一找那棵美丽的榆树吧。
[02:54.91]It spans 60 feet across its lush , green crown. 它的树冠繁茂苍翠，直径达60英尺，
[02:59.12]The trunk is about 12 feet in circumference .	树围约为12英尺。
[03:02.54]Look for the wound made by the chain. 去找一找那根铁链留下的伤疤。
[03:05.03]It serves as a reminder that because of our wounds, we can have hope! Our wounds can give us the resources we need to cope and survive.它在提醒我们，因为创伤，我们可以获得希望！创伤为我们面对困难和生存下去提供了力量！ 
[03:15.37]They can truly make us strong.	创伤真的能让我们变得更加强壮！

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一棵树给我们的启示：创伤，让我们更坚强