圣诞姜饼人在西方是家喻户晓的童话形象。整个故事里，姜饼小人一直在唱一句话“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man.”所以“姜饼人”被用来形容那种单纯又勇往直前的人。每到盛大的节日，大人们就会将各种形状如心形、人形的姜饼送给孩子们，或偷偷地放入孩子们期待的袜子内。

《盲人国》あい┽书 2008-11-07 16:18:57 阅读44 评论0 字号：大中小 订阅
盲人国里，独眼称王。这是英国谚语。放在我们现在的社会，可能就是盲人国里，独眼给他刺盲。既然有看清事实的智慧，又怎么会不清楚“违反民意”说出真相的后果。但是勇者无畏，总会有人站出来，在“历史洪流”之中坚持己见，对他人的群起而攻无动于衷。比如文革，在比如以前的封建王朝那些烂事。
当我们被蒙蔽的时候，而且很不幸的，绝大多数人都随着虚假的导向而走，知道事实真相的人应该何去何从？站起来高呼揭露真相？还是盲从？
今天早晨读完的第二遍，短幅不长，但是读起来也并不觉得轻松。
《盲人国》是一篇脍炙人口的名作，它构思奇特，其中不乏象征、寓言和讽刺的意味，反映了光明战胜黑暗需要付出巨大的代价的思想。
故事是讲述一个人从悬崖跌入到与世隔绝的座落于一个山谷里的盲人国，那里的人由于先天的疾病已经好几十代是盲人了，他们的精神世界一切都是局限的，他们不承认天外有天，更不理解什么叫光明，认为那都是谣言惑众，认为是精神错乱所至的无稽之谈。
没有什么能改变他向往光明喜欢光明的决心，哪怕是爱情，在盲人国，他被视为异类，被奴役，他一心想把他眼睛所能看到一切美丽的景色象盲人国的居民描述，可是一切都是无济于事，他只有接受外科手术摘掉眼睛才能得到盲人国正常公民的待遇，最后关头他为了追求光明逃出了山谷，但是等待他的只有死亡，因为没有人能这与世隔绝的地方离开，那茫茫的雪山，那陡峭的悬崖……但是他守住了自己的光明，他心满意足了。
小说的故事引人深思，故事充满了黑暗的压力，光明是那样微弱。盲人国的人思维有局限，他们认为世界就像他们能摸到的那么大，天空就是山谷上面的一块天，象个锅盖，（此时我想到了井底的那只青蛙），至于月亮星星太阳小花都是虚无飘渺的东西，是思想上的罪恶，他们认为没有白天和黑夜之分，他们白天睡觉，因为暖和；晚上起来干活，因为劳动能抵御寒冷。思想上极其固执，对新的观点新的事物持坚决反对态度，他们并不觉得自己无知，认为自己知道的就是真理！
想想现实中我们有视力的正常人所看到的就没有局限了吗？难道我们眼里的世界就是真实的或是正确的吗？我们看不到的东西就能说明它不存在吗？我们看到的事物就是它本来的样子吗？
其实相对于更高级的动物来说，我们也是局限的，我们能了解这个世界多少？能了解宇宙多少？
所以我喜欢探索谦逊的态度来讨论问题，这个世界的问题太多太多，大家都在激烈的争论，都认为自己就是真理就是事实，可是他不知道他做为一个人本身就有局限，谁知道这个世界到底有没有上帝有没有神仙呢？
我想光明也可以暗寓真理，那么追求真理就要认识到自身的局限并且突破局限，这样人类才会进步，对于个人来说，保持一颗探索与进取的心尤为重要。

TREASURE ISLAND《金银岛》英文读后感（book report）
Introduction
The writor’s name is Robert Louis Stevenson. He was born in Edinburgh on November 13th 1850.
His grandfather and father were civil engineering，made great achievements in the lighthouse construction. And they wished that Stevenson would take over their own enterprise. In 1867, Stevenson received his father’s decree to enter the Edinburgh University to study civil engineering. In fact, he loved literature when he was a child. So he asked his father to study literature, and was refused. But his father let him study law.
In 1878, Stevenson published his first travel notes "Inland river Range". A year later, he published "Jilv roaming in mind" and "Man and the casual theory". Since then, he gave up his business lawyer, writing with great concentration. In a short period of his life, he wrote a large number of essays, travelogues, essays, novels and poems.
1894, only 44-year-old Stevenson suddenly suffered from stroke,and died of illness in the Pacific south of the capital, Apia, Western Samoa and was buried in the local mountains overlooking the Pacific.
summary
My name was Jim Hawkins. An old seaman called Bill came to my father’s inn. He asked me to keep my eyes open for a seaman with one leg. But one day, a man named Black Dog came to the inn suddenly. And he fighted with Bill for something. Black Dog ran away with his blood running down. And Bill lay on the floor when he was going to leave.
Then the Blind Man came and gave Bill a Black Spot. But Bill died just then. I told mother that I knew. And then my mother and I decided to ask for help in the neighboring village, but failed. Fortunately, several men were willing to ride to Dr Liversery. And my mother and I went back to the inn to get our lawful money, and I took the oil cloth packet of papers. Then we ran away and hid under the bridge. The Blind Man brought some other pirates in the inn for the oil cloth packet of papers, and failed, of course. But the Blind Man didn’t believe. So they quarreled when Dirk sent signals to let them run away. And the Blind Man was left along and killed by the running houses.
We rode to Dr Liversery’s house. I gave the oil cloth packet of papers to him. And we decided to ready to find that money. Several days later, a letter came and asked Red Ruth and I to go to Bristol. The squire gave me a note to take to John Silver when I arrived here. And I found the Black Dog was also here and ran away. John deceived me into believing his innocence.
The captain was a sharp man and he was afraid of a mutiny. So we moved the powder and arms to the room near by ours. Then we started the voyage. The voyage was very good, except Mr. Arrow. He drank too much after a day or two at sea. At last, he disappeared entirely with no reason. Before arrived the island, I want a apple. But the apple barrel was nearly empty, so I had to climb into it, and had a sleep there. When I was awake, I heard that Silver asked Dick to join him to create a mutiny. And so did Dick. They wanted to kill us on the island. I told all I had known to my friend.
When we arrived in the island, some of them carelessly obey orders. The captain decided to make some of them go to the island for keeping them calm and let the mutiny came late. I quickly went over the ship’s side and into the nearest boat. I arrived first and ran towards the trees. And then I witnessed that Silver killed Tom and admitted having killed Alan. Because they didn’t join Silver. I was scared. I left there as silent as I could, and met Ben Gunn who had lived on the island for 3 years. My friends’ boat was turned over by wind. All of our stores sank to the bottom, and only two guns of five could be used. They found the stockade and stayed here after they landed. Ben Gunn killed one of pirate at night. So Silver came to talk about peace, but failed. After an hour, fighting began. Our defence was very good, and we had a good place -----in the house. So we wan first. Then Dr Liversery was going to see Ben. And I went away secretly with filling both pockets of my coat with food. I took the boat which made by Ben Gunn to cut the “Hispania” loose. After that, I climbed onto the ship, and striked the pirate’s flag , and killed Israel Hands before he killed me.
I climbed down the rope and left the “Hispania” on the bay. I found that my friends were not in the stockade when I walked in. I was survived by Silver. Because other pirates all wanted to kill me. But Silver persuaded them to not do it. I also knew that Dr Liversery gave the map to Silver. So they decided to search the money.
They difficultly found the place where the treasure was. But the money was missing. Because GUNN had moved it to a hole. The other pirates were very angry, and ready to kill Silver and me. But Dr Liversery ,Gunn and Gray saved us. One of them was shotted to die, and others ran away.
The end of the adventure was that we removed the treasure to the ship, and left the tree pirates on the island. Silver went back with us because Dr Liversery had promised to him.
Comment
After reading this book, I admire the little dramatis personae very much. And it make me feeling more. Jim Hawkins was a timid and shy boy at first. At the beginning of the voyage, Jim was only a waiter in the cabin. But he was able to fight with enemys, and recapture the ship from the enemys at last. Although he was always prone to became actuation. His courage and insight that had been represented make me admirable. I have learned many things from him, like brave, resource, accommodating and so on. If we also have the spirit that Jim has, many difficult questions must be readily solved.

《海伦凯勒》这篇文章真是一个感人肺腑的故事，当我读完这篇文章，受益匪浅。 　　"Helen Keller" this article is really a touch one deeply in the heart of the story, when I finish reading this article, benefit. 　　这个故事讲述了美国的盲聋女作家、教育家海伦。凯勒的一声坎坷。在海伦一岁半时，一场飞来横祸使她丧失了人的本能，从此，小海伦与有声有色的世界隔绝了，但她没有向命运而屈服。在老师的精心指导下，她学会了用手指“说话”，并且还掌握了五种文字。24岁时的她又以优异的成绩毕业于是著名的哈佛大学得克利好学院……从那以后，她把所有的精力都投到了世界盲人，还获得许多 *** 以及高等学院的赞扬和嘉奖。 　　It is the story of the American writer, educator Helen. Keller a rough. Helen in a year and a half, an unexpected trouble made her lose the instinct of a man, from now on, little Helen and the world be full of sound and colour, but she did not yield to fate. In the careful guidance of the teacher, she has learned to "talk" with your fingers, and also mastered five languages. At the age of 24 she graduated with honors and the famous Harvard University Texas good school...... Since then, she put all the energy into the world blind, also get a lot of government and higher school of praise and mendation. 　　一个盲人取得这么大的成就是何等令人惊讶!如果海伦屈服于不幸的命运，那么她将成为一个可怜而又愚昧的寄生者。然而她没有向命运低头，她以惊人的爆发力，顽强的精神，走完了人生的道路，为人类做出了巨大的贡献，成为一个知识广博，令天下人尊敬的人。 　　A blind man made such a great achievement is so amazing! If Helen succumbed to the fate, then she will be a parasitic poor and ignorant person. However, she did not bow to fate, her amazing explosive, indomitable spirit, walk the road of life, has made the tremendous contribution for the mankind, as a wide range of knowledge, make world the man of respect. 　　海伦的一生是不平凡的，她给予人们极大的鼓舞，使那些虚度光阴的人万分悔恨。记得海伦曾提出这样一来的问题：“假如你的眼睛明天将要失明，你今天要看什么?”这使我懂得一个道理：我们健康人，不能迟疑，不能虚度光阴，应该珍惜这美好的时光，珍惜这美好的生活。 　　Helen's life is extraordinary, she gave people a great encouragement, so that those idling people very regret. Remember Helen once proposed that such a question: "if your eyes will be blind tomorrow, do you want to see what today?" This makes me understand a truth: we healthy people, don't hesitate, not waste time, we should cherish this wonderful time, cherish this Wonderfull Life. 　　读了《海伦凯勒传》，我被主人公海伦凯勒的精神所感动。她是美国著名的残疾人社会活动家。她在阿拉巴州出生后的第二十个月，一场疾病夺走了她的视力和听力，使她的一生处在黑暗与无声的世界里。她凭着自己的毅力和坚强不屈的精神，终于战胜了自我，走出了无声世界，用笔架起了与他人交流的桥梁。 我觉得海伦凯勒真是太了不起了，如果换了别人，也许会去自杀，也许会依赖父母过一辈子，可她却不一样，一个人坚强地走了下去，不但学会了五种语言，而且还成为了著名的作家。她为什么能做到那样？答案就是坚强! 记得有一次，姐姐教我认“角”。刚开始，我觉得特别新鲜，可后来要认的角多了，就搞不清了，就说：“不学了!” 姐姐说：“你应该怎么可遇到挫折就不学呢？”可那时的我，哪听得进去，说什么也不愿学，还搪塞说以后老师会教的，等我再长大些，学起来也就不这么难了。姐姐看我这样，也就懒得理我，学角就这样半途而废了。现在想想我也真是，海伦凯勒残疾了还能学习，为什么我不行呢？如果我当时能坚持下去，那该多好呀！ 海伦凯勒已成了我心目中的偶像，在今后的人生道路上，我要像她一样，轻视困难，做个真正的强者!