Free Fly 自由飞翔
心灵感悟
每个人都向往自由的生活，可你不知道，其实从来没有毫无约束的自由。即使自由飞翔的小鸟，它们也只是在离地面几百米的空域里翱翔，不会飞进太空。那些令我们生气的约束，实际上正是帮助我们攀升和实现愿望的稳定力量。
佳篇拾粹
One windy spring day，I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites.Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing.As the strong winds gusted against the kites，astring kept them in check.
Instead of blowing away with the wind，they arose against it to achieve great heights.They shook and pulled，but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow，facing upward and against the wind.As the kites struggled and trembled against the string，they seemed to say，“Let me go！Let me go！I want to be free！”Theysoared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string.Finally，one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose.“Free at last，”it seemed to say.“Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze.It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush.“Free at last”free to lie powerless in the dirt，to be blown helplessly along the ground，and tolodge lifeless against the first obstruction.
How much like kites we sometimes are.The Heaven gives us adversity and restrictions，rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength.Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition.Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained.We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights，recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.
译林徜徉
在一个有风的春日，我看到一群年轻人正在迎风放风筝玩儿，各种颜色、各种形状和大小的风筝就好像美丽的鸟儿在空中飞舞。当强风把风筝吹起，风筝线保持着对风筝的控制。
风筝迎风飘向更高的地方，而没有随风而去。它们摇摆着、拉扯着，但有约束力的风筝线和尾巴使它们处于控制之中，它们迎风而上。它们挣扎着、抖动着想要挣脱线的束缚，仿佛在说：“放开我！放开我！我要自由！”尽管与风筝线的约束奋争着，但它们依然在美丽地飞翔着。终于，一只风筝成功挣脱了。“终于自由了，”它好像在说，“终于可以随风自由飞翔啦！”
然而，脱离束缚的自由使它完全处于无情微风的摆布下。它毫无风度地抖动着向地面坠落，结果落在一堆乱草之中，线缠绕在一棵枯死的灌木上。“终于自由”使它自由到无力地躺在尘土中，无助地任风沿着地面将其吹走，碰到第一个障碍后物后便毫无气息地滞留在那里了。
有时我们真像这风筝啊！上苍赋予了我们困境和约束，赋予了我们成长和增强实力所要遵从的规则。约束像极了逆风，而我们中有些人却如此强硬地抵制规则，以至我们根本无法飞到本来能够达到的高度。我们只遵从部分戒律，那就永远不会飞得足够高，不能使“尾巴”离开地面。
让我们每个人都飞向高处吧，并且认识到这一点：有些可能会令我们忿恨的约束，实际上是帮助我们攀升和实现愿望的稳定力量。
词海拾贝
1 observe/abˊza：v/v.观察，注意到；遵守
2 multicolored adj.多色的；彩色的；多姿多彩的
3 string/striy/n.线，一串，字串v.串起，用线穿上；上弦于
4 restraining/riˊstreiniy/adj.抑制的，遏制的，控制的
【扩展词】restraint/risˊtreint/n.抑制，克制，束缚
restriction/risˊtrik∫an/n.限制，约束
5 cumbersome/ˊkambasam/adj.笨重的；累赘的
6 soar/sa：，saa/n.高扬v.往上飞舞；高耸
7 mercy/ˊma：si/n.怜悯，宽恕，仁慈
8 unsympathetic/ˊansimpaˊθetik/adj.不表同情的，无情的，没有共鸣的
9 breeze/bri：z/n.微风；轻而易举的事
10 flutter/ˊflata/n.摆动，鼓翼；激动v.摆动，振翼；使焦急
11 tangled/ˊtēygld/adj.纠缠的；紊乱的
12 lodge/lad3/n.小屋，门房；支部v.安顿，提出，容纳；临时住宿
13 obstruction/abˊstrak∫an/n.障碍，妨碍，闭塞
14 counterpart/ˊkauntapa：t/n.副本，配对物，相似之物
15 commandment/kaˊma：n（d）mant/n.诫命，诫律
16 ascend/aˊsend/v.上升，攀登
佳句如歌
1 They shook and pulled，but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow，facing upward and against the wind.
它们摇摆着、拉扯着，但有约束力的牵引线和尾巴使它们处于控制之中，它们迎风而上。
2 The Heaven gives us adversity and restrictions，rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength.
上苍赋予我们困境和约束，赋予我们成长和增强实力所要遵从的规则。
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