心灵鸡汤英文故事
我们都是乌龟，背负着责任和梦想，也曾怨愤，终有一天，你会发现，它们成了你唯一不离不弃的依靠。心累了?来点鸡汤吧!
心灵鸡汤英文故事篇一
美国母亲坚持生下无脑儿 只为相陪几小时!
Abbey Ahern, 34, who lives in Oklahoma, was devastated when she was told at her 19-week scan that her daughter had the terminal illness anencephaly which meant she would not live beyond a few hours.
居住在美国俄克拉荷马州、今年34岁的艾比·阿埃伦在怀孕19周的时候，在被告知腹中的女儿被诊断出患有先天无脑畸形绝症、意味着仅能存活几个小时的时候，她彻底崩溃了。
According to the National Institutes of Health, the defect means the baby has an underdeveloped brain and incomplete skull.
美国国立卫生研究院表示，该缺陷意味着婴儿的大脑和头骨都无法发育完全。
Approximately one in 10,000 babies in the US are born with anencephaly, most of which result in miscarriage.
该缺陷在美国的患病几率是一万分之一，大多数都会导致流产。
As a result, Abbey and her pilot husband Robert, also 34, decided to have a live birth so that they could spend time with their daughter and donate her organs - making Annie the first infant newborn donor in the state.
艾比和她34岁的飞行员丈夫罗伯特最终决定将女儿生下来，这样他们可以陪伴女儿仅能存活的几个小时，同时，他们也决定捐献女儿的器官，这也是该州新生儿捐赠器官的第一例。
Afterwards they asked the doctor for the gender of their unborn child and decided to name her on the spot. They named her easily: Annie, which means, "grace."
他们向医生询问了这未出世孩子的性别，并给她取了名字。他们给她取名安妮，寓意着“恩典”。
Abbey told: 'Carrying a terminally-ill baby to term was by far the most difficult thing I have ever done... For us, even in the midst of our terrible heartbreak we were able to see so much beauty.'
艾比告诉记者：“生下这个患有绝症的孩子是迄今为止我做过的最困难的事情。对我们来说，虽然会感到心碎，但我们也看到了女儿的美丽。”
The family spent just 14 hours and 58 minutes with Annie before she passed away.
全家人在安妮夭折前仅与她相处了14个小时58分钟。
Her organs were not viable for transplant because her oxygen levels were too low - which Abbey said was 'disappointing' - but they were able to donate her heart valves and some of her organs could be used for research.
最终，安妮的器官因为氧含量太低而无法移植，艾比表示这太“遗憾”了，但他们能够捐赠她的心脏瓣膜，她的一些器官也可以用于研究。
She said: 'Annie's story is one of hope. I think it shows people that in the midst of tragedy, there can be beauty.
艾比说：“安妮的故事象征着希望。我认为它表明人们在悲剧中仍然可以看到美的存在。”
我们都是乌龟，背负着责任和梦想，也曾怨愤，终有一天，你会发现，它们成了你唯一不离不弃的依靠。心累了?来点鸡汤吧!
心灵鸡汤英文故事篇一
美国母亲坚持生下无脑儿 只为相陪几小时!
Abbey Ahern, 34, who lives in Oklahoma, was devastated when she was told at her 19-week scan that her daughter had the terminal illness anencephaly which meant she would not live beyond a few hours.
居住在美国俄克拉荷马州、今年34岁的艾比·阿埃伦在怀孕19周的时候，在被告知腹中的女儿被诊断出患有先天无脑畸形绝症、意味着仅能存活几个小时的时候，她彻底崩溃了。
According to the National Institutes of Health, the defect means the baby has an underdeveloped brain and incomplete skull.
美国国立卫生研究院表示，该缺陷意味着婴儿的大脑和头骨都无法发育完全。
Approximately one in 10,000 babies in the US are born with anencephaly, most of which result in miscarriage.
该缺陷在美国的患病几率是一万分之一，大多数都会导致流产。
As a result, Abbey and her pilot husband Robert, also 34, decided to have a live birth so that they could spend time with their daughter and donate her organs - making Annie the first infant newborn donor in the state.
艾比和她34岁的飞行员丈夫罗伯特最终决定将女儿生下来，这样他们可以陪伴女儿仅能存活的几个小时，同时，他们也决定捐献女儿的器官，这也是该州新生儿捐赠器官的第一例。
Afterwards they asked the doctor for the gender of their unborn child and decided to name her on the spot. They named her easily: Annie, which means, "grace."
他们向医生询问了这未出世孩子的性别，并给她取了名字。他们给她取名安妮，寓意着“恩典”。
Abbey told: 'Carrying a terminally-ill baby to term was by far the most difficult thing I have ever done... For us, even in the midst of our terrible heartbreak we were able to see so much beauty.'
艾比告诉记者：“生下这个患有绝症的孩子是迄今为止我做过的最困难的事情。对我们来说，虽然会感到心碎，但我们也看到了女儿的美丽。”
The family spent just 14 hours and 58 minutes with Annie before she passed away.
全家人在安妮夭折前仅与她相处了14个小时58分钟。
Her organs were not viable for transplant because her oxygen levels were too low - which Abbey said was 'disappointing' - but they were able to donate her heart valves and some of her organs could be used for research.
最终，安妮的器官因为氧含量太低而无法移植，艾比表示这太“遗憾”了，但他们能够捐赠她的心脏瓣膜，她的一些器官也可以用于研究。
She said: 'Annie's story is one of hope. I think it shows people that in the midst of tragedy, there can be beauty.
艾比说：“安妮的故事象征着希望。我认为它表明人们在悲剧中仍然可以看到美的存在。”
心灵鸡汤英文故事篇二
哲理美文 当一个作家书写自己的人生The gas station nearest my house happens to face a strip club. It is apparently a very successful strip club, as they could afford to install a LCD screen on their roof that might be visible from the Space Station. It's certainly visible from the gas station. At some point my eyes will drift up while pumping gas, and there will be a one-story image of a young woman in some stage of near-undress.
离我家最近的加油站对面碰巧有一家脱衣舞夜总会。这家夜总的屋顶装了一个巨大的LED屏幕，说不定在太空上都看得见。能够支付这样的费用，看来经营得非常成功。不用说，在加油站也能看见那块屏幕。在加油的时候，我会不经意地往上看，一层楼高的屏幕上显示着一个几乎一丝不挂的少女。
As I was getting some gas this morning, I wondered for the first time what a woman pumping gas thought when she looked at that screen. Though it would depend on the woman, I thought. A woman who had once been an exotic dancer herself would certainly look at that image differently than a Catholic nun.
今天早上，我又来到这里加油，脑海中突然有一个问题挥之不去：一个女人来加油的时候看到那块屏幕会有什么想法呢?我觉得那要看她是个怎样的人。曾经当过脱衣舞者的女人和天主教的修女肯定会对那个图像有不同的看法。
The image would look different to each of us. And when I say look different, I mean we would be seeing what amounts to a different image. For while the young woman's pose and attire that I see are identical to the pose and attire that every other man, woman, and child sees, the story that image tells me is told uniquely by me, by my own ideas about women and advertising and maybe even gas stations.
那张图像对每个人来说都是不一样的，这个不一样是指我们会产生不一样的想法。虽然那个少女的姿势打扮在每一个男人、女人、小孩眼中都是一样的，但是我在那图像中捕捉到的故事是独一无二的，是由我自身对女人、广告、甚至是加油站的想法创造的。
The image is nothing; the story is everything. Good to remember if you're a writer. Writers don't report the facts. The fact that there is a strip club with a giant LCD screen blazing near-nudity for all to see means nothing in reality. All that ever matters is what a person believes when they look upon it. What a person believes is the terrain of the storyteller.
图像本身什么都不是，故事才是一切。如果你是个作家，你会知道作家并不是描写现实。那儿有一家脱衣舞夜总会，屋顶上有一块巨大的LED屏幕，屏幕上显示着几近裸体的少女，这是现实，没有意义的现实。真正有意义的是人看到这个景象时萌生的想法，人的思想是创作故事的土壤。
And by the way, it is the only terrain of the storyteller. Storytellers, whether they are conscious of it or not, wish to alter reality. We are not so interested in changing the image that flashes on the great LCD screen of the world. Mostly that's beyond our control. We could march, or protest, or fill out petitions to get the screen changed, but it's faster, ultimately, to tell ourselves a story about what we see there.
而且，思想是创作故事的唯一土壤。讲故事的人会有意无意地想去改变现实。我们不是想把现实中大屏幕上惹眼的图像换掉，大多数情况下我们都是有心无力。我们当然可以游行示威，写信请愿把那屏幕换掉，但说到底，更快捷的办法是给自己讲个跟眼前的事物有关的故事。
I sometimes forget I have to power to change that story. My mind drifts as idly from thought to thought as my eyes drift from gas pump to pinup. What occurs in this exchange between the world I look upon and the story I tell can happen so fast, can be so habitual, that I can lose track of who is telling the story I am hearing. The moment I remember, the moment I see my mind as a blank page on which to write my life, I am the author once more, and my life is mine again.
有时候我会忘记自己有改变故事的能力。我的视线四处游动，从汽油管飘忽到半裸少女，我的思维也跟着漫不经心地跳跃。把眼前的事实创作成的自己故事，这就像我的习惯一样，一眨眼的功夫，我已经分不清我到底是在创作故事，还是成为了故事的主人公。等我回过神来的时候，等我空白的脑海重新回想起自己生活的时候，我又重新成为故事的作者，重新回到了自己的生活中。