托福阅读练习蔷薇之光可驱黑暗
发布:常州环球雅思英语学校 发布时间:2011-3-5 13:59:45
"dr.papaderos, what is the meaning of life?"
the usual laughter followed, and people stirred to go.
papaderos held up his hand and stilled the room and looked at me for a long time, asking with his eyes if i was serious and seeing from my eyes that i was.
"i will answer your question."
taking his wallet out of his hip pocket, he fished into a leather billfold and brought out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter.
and what he said went like this:
"when i was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a remote village. one day, on the road, i found the broken pieces of a mirror. a german motorcycle had been wrecked in that place.
"i tried to find all the pieces and put them together, but it was not possible, so i kept only the largest piece. this one, and, by scratching it on a stone, i made it round. i began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that i could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine---in deep holes and crevices and dark closets. it became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places i could find.
"i kept the little mirror, and, as i went about my growing up, i would take it out in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game. as i became a man, i grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor for what i might do with my life. i came to understand that i am not the light or the source of light. but light---truth, understanding, knowledge---is there, and it will shine in many dark places only if i reflect it.
"i am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape i do not know. nevertheless, with what i have i can reflect light into the dark places of this world---into the black places in the hearts of men---and change some things in some people. perhaps others may see and do likewise. this is what i am about. this is the meaning of my life."
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