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刚开始读这本书时,只为了练英文阅读,没想过要写什么感想。但是读完后,却发现,这本小小的书竟然蕴含了丰富深厚的人生哲学。
下面的读后感分为两部分,前面是英文读后感,一面是我转述的这篇英文故事的中文版。希望您也能有所收获。
Everyday we will run across different people, with some of them, whether you like or not, you have to get along.
Some people will choose to go away from those they don’t like, but others decide to accept and try to smooth their relationship.
What is the right choice?
I have no idea too, so just read the story below.
This is a story about how we should do when we encounter those we don’t like.
The main role of the story is a little boy named Daffydowndilly.
His name is too long to write, so I just use Daffy for short.
Daffy liked all the beautiful things in the world such as his mother’s gentle smile, beautiful flowers in the garden and so on.
However, when his mother sent him into a primary school, Daffy could not bear the disciplines and hard work in the school. Especially, he hated his teacher, Mr. Toil most.
So Daffy decided to find a place where he could not meet Mr. Toil.
On his journey, he met a stranger, a tall and old man who also had a good deal to do with Mr. Toil. So Daffy accepted the stranger as his company.
On their way, they met haymakers, music performers, carpenters.
At first, Daffy wanted to stay and join them when he saw them working happily, but each time when the heads of the workers appeared, the smile immediately disappeared from Daffy’s face.
Obviously, Daffy was afraid of such kind of people who was strict or harsh, just like his teacher. Unluckily, he could not get rid of such type of people. They are everywhere, even the stranger, who went along with him on the journey, resembled Mr. Toil too.
At last, Daffy gave up on finding the place where there is no Mr Toil.
He learned the lesson that Mr. Toil was not a person but a type of people similar to Mr. Toil , he could meet him at school and everywhere too.
Thus the better way to get rid of such type of person is to accept the fact and to learn to get on well with them.
下面内容是这个英文故事的中文版。因为原文较长,所以我稍微改写了点。
有个叫小水仙的小孩,他妈妈对他特别温柔,每天早上都叫着,宝贝快起床了,宝贝来吃饭了,妈妈总是温柔地对着他笑。小水仙特别喜欢他那温柔的妈妈,而且他也只喜欢温柔的,美丽的事物,比如他喜欢鲜花,喜欢蓝天,却很讨厌 听到批评。
可是到了上学的年纪了,小水仙不得不去学校了。妈妈把他送到了辛劳先生的班级里。熟悉辛劳先生的人都说他特别好,经常帮助周围的人。可是小水仙却不喜欢他,因为他非常丑陋, 一个大大的鼻子,一双小小的眼睛。那双眼睛常常盯着他们,只要谁上课不认真听讲,就会被辛劳先生叫起来罚站,而且全班同学都得跟着一起罚站。 只有当孩子们都坐在教室里认认真真看书时,辛劳先生才会笑眯眯地看着大家。
小水仙可受不了这个,他讨厌辛劳老师那刺耳的声音,讨厌他严厉的目光,小水仙说:“我要离开这个,我要去找我的妈妈,这世界上肯定不会有比辛劳老师还要凶,还要严厉的人了。
于是小水仙就带上早饭吃剩下的一小块面包,还有半瓶酸奶,就出发了。刚走出门没多远,就遇到了妈妈来接他,原来妈妈这几天一直在关注他,知道他想寻找更好的老师,便想亲自带他一起去寻找。
他们就这样一同踏上了寻找好老师的旅途。小水仙别提多高兴了,一路上又是唱以是跳,没多久他们走到一片麦田边,蓝天下那一片片金黄金黄的麦浪,随风起舞,风花带来新割下来的麦子的清香味。小水仙大口大口地吸着甜甜的麦子味,看到麦田到劳作的人员,觉得他们好幸福呀,他想留这里与他们一起收割麦子。他正要给妈妈说他的想法时,突然看到麦田边站着一个高大的身影,他手插着腰高声地喊着,让工人们好好干活,不许偷懒。
小水仙发现他和辛劳老师长得太像了,简直就是一个人,但这个人肯定不是辛劳老师,因为他还在上课呢?小水仙想到这,就赶紧跟妈妈说:妈妈,咱们赶快离开这吧,这个人和辛劳老师一样,我害怕他。
妈妈微笑着说:“宝贝,他可不是辛劳老师,他是老师的弟弟,人们都说他比辛劳老师还要凶一千倍呢。你只要不去割麦子,这个人就不会找你麻烦的。”
小水仙点点头,继续跟着妈妈往前走,一直走到看不到这片麦地,他的心情才渐渐好起来。
又走了很远,小水仙突然听到前面有音乐声,他非常兴奋,一路小跑着迎了上去。原来是一队士兵,他们穿着红色的礼服,帽子上还插着漂亮的白色羽毛。前面两个士兵在敲鼓,后面的士兵,有的要拉小提琴,有的在吹笛子。小水仙从来没有见过这么美妙的场景,他觉得要是能成为其中的一员,肯定很幸福。而且最重要的是辛劳老师不会乐器,所以他肯定不会到这里来的。
小水仙正开心地想着,突然听到一个嗓音粗哑的声音喊到:“加快脚步,步调一致,前进!” 小水仙被吓了一跳,这声音和辛劳老师太像了,辛劳老师在教室里就是这样喊叫那些上课不专心听讲的学生的。
小水仙看向刚才发出粗哑声音的这个人,他是这一列士兵的队长,身上也穿着漂亮的礼服,戴着插着羽毛的帽子,手上握着一把长剑,而不是像辛劳老师那样握着一根教鞭。 虽然这位队长先生走起路来,雄纠纠地像只骄傲的公鸡,但小水仙还是不喜欢他,总觉得他像辛劳老师上课时一样,让人讨厌和害怕。
小水仙因为害怕这个士兵队长,声音颤抖地对妈妈说:“这个人肯定是辛劳先生装扮的,咱们赶紧走吧!”
“你认错人了哦,宝贝,这个人是辛劳老师的哥哥, 他在部队工作,人们都说他比辛劳老师还要凶一万倍呢!”
小水仙赶紧拉着妈妈的手跑开了,他们走啊走啊,太累了,就坐在一户人家门前休息。
小水仙不经意间往屋子里瞥了一眼,突然看到客厅里坐着的人跟辛劳先生长得一样,他又看向客厅旁边的厨房里,奇怪了厨房里那个做饭的人也和辛劳老师一个样。
无论他们走到哪里,总有人长得和辛劳先生一个样,不过周围的人都说他们只是辛劳先生的兄弟,因为辛劳先生家是个大家族,那些人只是他们家族的其中一个。
小水仙累得几乎筋皮力尽了。他失声痛哭起来:“哦,带我回去吧,回去吧!如果这世界上到处都是辛劳老师,我还不如回学校里去呢。”
回到学校后,小水仙学习可认真了,因为他发现原来勤奋学习也很有乐趣,比天天游手好闲地玩乐更有意义,而且当他和辛劳老师相处久了发现,他也没那么讨厌,特别是小水仙回答问题答对了时,辛劳老师对他露出那赞许的微笑,多么像小水仙妈妈温柔的笑脸哪。
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