决心的力量: 注定一生残疾的人却跑出了最快的速度

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[00:02.89]33 The Power of Determination	决心的力量
[00:07.23](By Burt Dubin)	（译 / 关月）
[00:09.55]The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old-fashioned, pot- bellied stove. 那所小小的乡村小学依靠一个旧式的圆肚火炉取暖。
[00:17.03]A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived.	一个小男孩每天早晨提前到校，在老师和同学们到校之前负责生好炉子，把教室烘得暖暖的。
[00:26.85]One morning, they arrived to find the schoolhouse engulfed in flames. 一天早晨，老师和同学们来到学校后，发现校舍被一片火海吞没。
[00:32.56]They dragged the unconscious little boy out of the flaming building more dead than alive. 他们从着火的校舍里把那个不省人事、近乎死亡的小男孩拖了出来。
[00:39.00]He had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to the nearby county hospital.	他的下半身严重烧伤，人们把他送到了附近的乡村医院里。
[00:46.47]From his bed the dreadfully burned, semi-conscious little boy faintly heard the doctor talking to his mother. 这个被严重烧伤、处于昏迷状态的小男孩躺在病床上，模模糊糊地听到医生正在和他的母亲说话。
[00:54.16]The doctor told his mother that her son would surely die - which was for the best, really - for the terrible fire had devastated the lower half of his body.	医生告诉母亲她的儿子必死无疑了――那样也许最好，真的――因为可怕的大火已经烧毁了他的下半身。
[01:05.60]But the brave boy didn't want to die. 可是，这个勇敢的小男孩不想死，
[01:09.21]He made up his mind that he would survive. 他决心活下来。
[01:12.30]Somehow, to the amazement of the physician, he did survive.令那位医生感到惊讶的是，不知何故，他真的活下来了。
[01:17.07]When the mortal danger was past, he again heard the doctor and his mother speaking quietly. 在他的危险期过去后，他又听到那位医生在和他的母亲低声交谈。
[01:23.29]The mother was told that since the fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body, 他的母亲被告知，由于大火烧坏了他下半身太多的肌肉，
[01:30.28]it would almost be better if he had died, since he was doomed to be a life-time cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs.	他几乎生不如死，因为他下肢根本就无法动弹，注定只能一生残疾。
[01:39.82]Once more the brave boy made up his mind. 这个勇敢的小男孩再一次下定决心：
[01:43.03]He would not be a cripple. 他不会成为一个残疾人，
[01:45.27]He would walk. 他要走路！
[01:46.50]But unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor ability. 但不幸的是，他自腰部以下完全不能动弹。
[01:51.43]His thin legs just dangled there, all but lifeless.	他的两条细腿只是悬在那儿，没有一点儿生命迹象。
[01:56.50]Ultimately he was released from the hospital. 终于，他出院了。
[02:00.14]Every day his mother would massage his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. 他的母亲每天都会给他的两条细腿做按摩，但是，他完全感觉不到，也不能控制双腿，什么也不能做。
[02:07.96]Yet his determination that he would walk was as strong as ever.	可他要走路的决心仍然像以前一样坚定。
[02:12.76]When he wasn't in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. 他没躺在床上的时候，就坐在一辆轮椅里。
[02:16.88]One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. 在一个阳光明媚的日子里，他的母亲用轮椅推着他到外面的院子里呼吸新鲜空气。
[02:21.91]This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. 这一天，他没有像往常一样坐在那儿，而是从轮椅上扑到了地上。
[02:27.31]He pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him.	身后拖着自己的两条腿，他爬过了草坪。
[02:32.00]He worked his way to the white picket fence bordering their lot. 他一直爬到围着自家院子的白色尖桩篱栅处，
[02:36.47]With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. 使出浑身的力气，扶着篱栅站了起来。
[02:40.62]Then, stake by stake, he began dragging himself along the fence, resolved that he would walk. 然后，他拖着双腿，开始沿着那道篱栅一个篱笆桩接一个篱笆桩地挪动，下定决心一定要能走路。
[02:48.65]He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence. 从那天开始，他每天都这样做，后来，那道篱栅的旁边被他磨出了一条绕院子一圈的光滑小路。
[02:55.60]There was nothing he wanted more than to develop life in those legs.	他唯一希望的就是让自己的双腿恢复活力。
[03:00.24]Ultimately through his daily massages, his iron persistence and his resolute determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk haltingly  - 终于，在他的每日按摩、钢铁一样的意志和坚定的决心的共同作用下，他真的能站起来了；接着，他开始一瘸一拐地行走；
[03:13.24]and then to walk by himself - and then to run.	然后，他可以稳稳当当地自己走路；再后来他可以跑步了。
[03:17.88]He began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run for the sheer joy of running. 他开始走路去学校，然后跑着去学校，因为奔跑会给他带来纯粹的喜悦。
[03:25.20]Later in college he made the track team.	后来，他上了大学，参加了田径队。
[03:28.89]Still later in Madison Square Garden this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run - 再后来，在麦迪逊广场花园，这个先是被认为无法生还、继而又被判定不能行走更没有希望跑步的年轻人--
[03:40.37]this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!	这个有决心的年轻人， 格伦・坎宁安博士，跑出了世界最快的速度！

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决心的力量: 注定一生残疾的人 却跑出了最快的速度

决心的力量: 注定一生残疾的人却跑出了最快的速度