地球为你而动?

湖北省黄冈市 库锋冈／选译

Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating

disease involving her nervous system.She was unable to walk and her move

ment was restricted in other ways as well.The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.They said that few,if any,were able to come back to normal after contracting this disease.The little girl was undaunted.There,lying in her hospital bed,she would vow to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

She was transferred to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San

Francisco Bay area.Whatever therapies could be applied to her case were used,the therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit.They taught her about imaging-about seeing herself walking.If it would do nothing else,it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in her bed.Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy,in whirlpools and in exercise sessions.But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her imaging,visualizing herself moving,moving,moving!

One day,as she was straining with all her might to imagine her legs moving again,it seemed as though a miracle happened:The bed moved!It began to move around the room!She screamed out, “Look what I’m doing!Look!Look!I can do it!I moved,I moved!”

Of course,at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming,too.People were screaming,equipment was falling and glass was breaking.You see,it was the recent San Francisco earthquake.But don’t tell that to Angela.She’s convinced that she did it.And now only a few years later,she’s back in school.You see,anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease,can’t they?

十一岁的小安吉拉患有神经系统的疾病，身体十分虚弱。她无法走路,就连其他的移动也很受限制。医生对她的康复也不报什么希望。他们预言小安吉拉的余生都只能在轮椅上度过。医生说，患了这种疾病后，如果有的话，也很少人能恢复正常。然而，这是个坚强的小女孩儿。在那儿，躺在病床上，她对所有愿意听的人发誓，终有一天，她会重新走路！

小安吉拉随即被转到旧金山弯地区的一所专门康复医院。尽管中心针对她的病情提供了尽可能提供的相应治疗，但临床医生仍被她不屈不挠的精神所折服。他们告诉她要想像——仿佛看见自己在行走。如果这样没什么效用，起码可以给她带来希望，带来一些宽慰来度过病床上的漫漫时光。在身体恢复治疗中，在强烈运动中，在体能训练中，安吉拉拼尽全力。但在病床上,她仍继续努力想像，丝毫不懈怠，想像自己在前进！前进！前进！

有一天，当她尽力想像着自己的腿能移动的时候，奇迹出现了：床移动了！床在房间里挪动着！她惊叫起来：“看我做的！看啊！看啊！我能做到！我能动了，能动啦！”

当然,那一刻，医院里所有的人也都惊叫起来。大家欢呼着,仪器落在了地上，玻璃杯也摔碎了。你知道了吗，这是旧金山最近一次地震。但是,别告诉安吉拉。她坚定地认为她做到了。几年后的今天，她已回到了校园。你看，谁能让旧金山和奥克兰间的地球震动，谁就能征服这微不足道的疾病，难道不是吗？

本文选自《中学生英语》高一版