高中英語(yǔ)作文范文：完美的心
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming1) that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered, and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a flaw2) in it.
Suddenly, an old man appeared and said, "Why3), your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine!"
The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right, and there were several jagged4) edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges5) where whole pieces were missing.
The young man laughed. "Comparing your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars."
"Yes," said the old man, "Yours looks perfect but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love. I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart that fits into the empty place in my heart.
"But because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared.
"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his or her heart to me. These are the empty gouges - giving love is taking a chance.
"Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for those people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I've been waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"
The young man walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect heart, and ripped6) a piece out. He offered it to the old man.
The old man placed it in his heart, then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.
They embraced7) and walked away side by side.
How sad it must be to go through life with a whole untouched heart!
一天,一個(gè)年輕人站在鎮(zhèn)子的中央,宣稱他擁有整個(gè)山谷最美麗的心。一大群人圍了過(guò)來(lái),都交口稱贊年輕人的心,因?yàn)檫@顆心完美無(wú)瑕。
一位老者突然出現(xiàn)了,說(shuō)道:"嗨,你的心可不如我的心美麗啊!"
這群人和年輕人都看了看老者的心,只見(jiàn)上面布滿傷痕。心上的一些部分被取走了,另外補(bǔ)上了其他人的,但并不十分吻合,還有幾處邊緣參差不齊。事實(shí)上,他的心上有些地方留下了深深的凹痕,整瓣整瓣的心都不見(jiàn)了。
年輕人笑道:"跟你的心相比,我的心才是完美的,你的心滿是疤痕。"
"沒(méi)錯(cuò),"老者說(shuō):"你的心看上去很完美,但是我永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)和你交換。你瞧,每處傷痕都代表一個(gè)我曾愛(ài)過(guò)的人。我撕下自己的一片心給他們,他們往往也會(huì)給我一片他們的心,填補(bǔ)我心中缺失的那部分。
"但是由于每片心大小并不完全相同,我的心有些粗糙的邊緣,不過(guò)我很珍惜,因?yàn)樗鼈冏屛蚁肫鹞覀冎g分享過(guò)的愛(ài)。
"有時(shí)我把自己的幾片心送出去,其他人卻沒(méi)有向我回饋他們的心。這些便成了空著的深痕--付出愛(ài)本來(lái)就是一種冒險(xiǎn)。
"盡管這些凹痕讓我感到痛苦,但它們敞開著,讓我想起我對(duì)他們付出的愛(ài),并希望有朝一日能得到回饋,填滿這等待已久的空間。所以,現(xiàn)在你明白什么才是真正的美了嗎?"
年輕人走到老者面前,把手伸進(jìn)自己完美的心中,撕下了一片,贈(zèng)給了老者。
老者把這片心放進(jìn)自己的心里,然后從自己那顆蒼老而又傷痕累累的心上撕下一片,放入年輕人心上的傷口。雖然能夠放進(jìn)去,但不十分吻合,因?yàn)橛械倪吘壈纪共黄健?/p>
年輕人看了看自己的心,它雖然不再完美,卻更加美麗,因?yàn)槔险咝闹械膼?ài)流入了他的心田。
他們互相擁抱,然后并肩前行。
人這一生如果一直保持著一顆完整未動(dòng)的心是多么可悲啊!