01 A Ball to Roll Around (3) (散文54篇详解Day 3)

前两天我们精讲了这篇散文的第一段。今天在开讲之前我们介绍下本文的作者。

作者Robert G. Allman是位盲人。他在运动、法律及电台体育广播三个不同的领域取得了极大的成功。他幼时就读于费城奥弗布鲁克盲人学校并在该校学会了摔跤。在宾夕法尼亚大学学习期间曾在五十多场摔跤比赛中获胜。在弟弟的帮助下（因为几乎没有法律书籍是用盲文印刷的），他在该校法学院学习并顺利毕业。由于他热爱运动，一度任电台体育节目广播员，他认为盲人不应该只从盲人身上寻求安慰，而应该“走出家门与世人接触”。活脱脱的励志哥。该文字朴实、生动流畅。期间所含的人生哲理，对人颇有启迪。

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原文如下：

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky.

第一句：Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality.

词汇介绍：

continuous，很明显是continue的形容词，表“连续不断的”；

a series of, 表“一系列的……”，那a continous series of则表示“一系列连续不断的……”；

adjustment，是动词adjust的名词，表“调整”；注意后面的adjustment后面的介词是to，和动词adjust to是一样的；

主要注意的是“I believe”放在了“life”主语后面，原本是应该放在最前面，写做“I believe life asks a continuous ... ”，可是“I believe”的位置是多变的，也可以放在主语和谓语动词中间。

译文：我认为，生活要求人不断地自我调整以适应现实。

第二句：The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes.

译文：人愈能及时地进行调整，他的个人世界变愈有意义。

最后几句：The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky.

bewildered, 形容词，“困惑的，晕头转向的”。

译文：调整绝非易事。我曾感到茫然害怕。但我很幸运。

最后，我们再来赏析一下这段话：

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky.

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最后小小的思考一下，你今天学到了什么？那怕是一个单词、一个句型、一个语法点，甚至是你阅读这篇文章受到的一点点感悟和启发，请分享在下方吧！

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