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新高考高中英语学习
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读名篇
5
，学英语，积累作文素材
2
：假如再回到童年
（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）
说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自
voa, bbc, cnn
经典语篇）
。
当然，我不仅仅是
提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。
读者：
高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）
（孙三五编辑）
今天的经典美文是富兰克林写的，
估计读者对这篇非常熟悉了，不妨拿出来再把玩一遍。
一首
《时间都去哪儿了》
不知触动了多少听者的心，
更 是引发了以此歌名为话题的全民讨论，
从父母的关爱到现实的忙碌，
无不 令人为之动容。
人们都想顺着时间的藤蔓，
去追寻那飞逝
的流年。如果你有机会可以重新回到小时候，你会想要做些什么？
正文
If I
Were a Boy Again
假如我又回到了童年
Benjamin
Franklin
本杰明
·
富兰克林
If
I
were
a
boy
again,
I
would
practice
perseverance
more
often,
and
never
give
up
a
thing
because it was hard or inconvenient. If
we want light, we must conquer darkness.
Perseverance
can sometimes equal genius
in its results. “There are only two creatures,”
says a proverb, “who
can surmount the
pyramids
—the eagle and the snail.”
If I were a boy again, I
would school myself into a habit of attention; I
would let nothing come
between me and
the subject in hand. I would remember that a good
skater never tries to skate in
two
directions at once.
If I
were to live my life over again, I would pay more
attention to the cultivation of the memory. I
would strengthen that faculty by every
possible means, and on every possible occasion. It
takes a
little hard work at first to
remember things accurately; but memory soon helps
itself, and gives
very little trouble.
It only needs early cultivation to become a power.
If
I
were
a
boy
again,
I
would
cultivate
courage.
“Nothing
is
so
mild
and
gentle
as
courage,
nothing so cruel and pitiless as
cowardice ,” says a wise author. Dangers will
arise in any career,
but presence of
mind will often conquer the worst of them. Be
prepared for any fate, and there is
no
harm to be feared.
If I
were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful
side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you
smile
upon it, it smiles back upon you;
but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will
get a similar
look
in
return.
Inner
sunshine
warms
not
only
the
heart
of
the
owner,
but
of
all
that
come
in