《第16期青春励志(16)》歌词

歌曲： 第16期青春励志(16)

所属专辑：专四美文听写训练

歌手： 英语听力

时长： 02:57

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第16期青春励志(16)-英语听力[00:00:00]

Free to Soar [00:00:16]

One windy spring day, [00:00:19]

I observed young people having fun [00:00:21]

using the wind to fly their kites. [00:00:24]

Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes [00:00:27]

filled the skies like beautiful birds [00:00:31]

darting and dancing in [00:00:34]

the heady atmosphere above the earth. [00:00:36]

As the strong winds gusted against the kites, [00:00:39]

a string kept them in check. [00:00:42]

Instead of blowing away with the wind, [00:00:46]

they arose against it to achieve great heights. [00:00:49]

They shook and pulled, [00:00:53]

but the restraining string [00:00:55]

and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, [00:00:57]

facing upward and against the wind. [00:01:00]

As the kites struggled [00:01:03]

and trembled against the string, [00:01:05]

they seemed to say, [00:01:07]

"Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!" [00:01:09]

They soared beautifully even [00:01:14]

as they fought the imposed [00:01:16]

restriction of the string. [00:01:18]

Finally, one of the kites succeeded [00:01:20]

in breaking loose. [00:01:23]

"Free at last," it seemed to say. [00:01:25]

"Free to fly with the wind." [00:01:28]

Yet freedom from restraint simply put it [00:01:31]

at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. [00:01:35]

It fluttered ungracefully to the ground [00:01:38]

and landed in a tangled mass of weeds [00:01:41]

and string against a dead bush. [00:01:45]

"Free at last" [00:01:47]

free to lie powerless in the dirt, [00:01:49]

to be blown helplessly along the ground, [00:01:52]

and to lodge lifeless against [00:01:55]

the first obstruction. [00:01:57]

How much like kites we sometimes are. [00:01:59]

The Lord gives us adversity and restrictions, [00:02:03]

rules to follow from which [00:02:07]

we can grow and gain strength. [00:02:09]

Restraint is a necessary counterpart [00:02:12]

to the winds of opposition. [00:02:15]

Some of us tug at the rules so hard [00:02:17]

that we never soar to [00:02:20]

reach the heights we might have obtained. [00:02:22]

We keep part of the commandment [00:02:25]

and never rise high enough [00:02:27]

to get our tails off the ground. [00:02:29]

Let us each rise to the great heights [00:02:32]

God has in store for us, [00:02:35]

recognizing that some of the restraints [00:02:37]

that we may chafe under [00:02:40]

are actually the steadying force [00:02:42]

that helps us ascend and achieve. [00:02:45]