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中英双语故事精选 ：真正的勇气 A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy. 一位父亲很为儿子担心，虽然儿子已经16岁了，却一点儿勇气都没有。于是，父亲决定去拜访一位禅师，请他训练自己的儿子。 The Buddhist monk said to the boys father,“You should leave your son alone here. Ill make him into a real man within three months. However, you cant come to see him during this period.” 禅师对男孩的父亲说：“你应该把你儿子单独留在这里。不出三个月，我会让他成为一个真正的男子汉。不过，在这段时间，你不能来看他。” Three months later, the boys father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an experienced boxer. 三个月后，男孩的父亲又来见禅师。禅师安排这个男孩和一位经验丰富的拳师进行拳术比赛。 Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up; and each time a punch knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked,“What do you think of your child?” 拳师每次一出手，男孩都被击倒在地上，但男孩又马上站起来;每次被击倒，他就又站起来。几个回合后，禅师问道：“你认为你的孩子怎么样?” “What a shame!”the boys father said,“I never thought he would be so easily knocked down. I neednt have him left here any longer.” “真丢人!”男孩的父亲说，“我根本没想到他是这样的不堪一击。我不让他再留在这里了。” “Im sorry that thats all you see. Dont you see that each time he falls down; he stands up again instead of crying? Thats the kind of courage you wanted him to have.” “很遗憾，你只看到了这一点。难道你没看到他每次倒下后是重新站起来，而不是哭泣吗?这才是你想要他拥有的那种勇气。” ：一丝不苟的州长 A Governor visiting a state prison was implored by a convict to pardon him. 州长在视察一所州管监狱时，有个罪犯哀求州长宽恕他。 “What are you in for?”asked the Governor. “你犯了什么事?”州长问道。 “I held a high office,”the convict humbly replied,“and sold subordinate appointments.” “我曾经是个高级官员，”犯人低声下气地回答，“因为向下级卖官。” “Then I decline to interfere,”said the Governor, with asperity,“a man who abuses his office by making it serve a private end and purvey a personal advantage is unfit to be free. By the way, Mr. Warden,”he added to the official beside him, as the convict slunk away,“in appoint