Yuan Longping

武丽萍

袁隆平“共和国勋章”获得者、“杂交水稻之父”，这位为我国和世界粮食安全做出不可磨灭贡献的科学家为我们永远铭记。除了他的科学事业，其实我们还能从袁隆平的日常兴趣与爱好中学到很多。

When it comes to Yuan Longping， we will think of him as the “Father of Hybrid Rice”. However， Yuan's private life is less well-known， and involved reading， swimming， playing the violin and so on. From a potential national swimming athlete to his love of the violin， here are some of the lesser-known aspects of Yuan's life.

Yuan Longping has a unique reading habit： recitation. In the first year of high school， the school held a speech contest. Yuan Longping and the other two 1）contestants in the class selected the speech and read aloud on the roof of the 2）dormitory building in the morning. Since then， he has found that reading aloud is a good reading method： it can strengthen memory， 3）stimulate thinking， deepen understanding of articles， and can also train Mandarin and exercise lung capacity. Even after he started working， he still maintainedthis reading habit. After each reading， he devoted himself to the field to study hybrid rice. He once used “thinking gymnastics” to describe reading. He always felt that his thinking would be particularly active and his energy would be particularly 4）abundant.

Yuan is also a good swimmer. When Yuan was 8 years old， his family left Hankou， Hubei， and boarded a ship for Taoyuan county， Hunan. On the journey， the young Yuan fell overboard， and was saved by a worker on one of the passing boats. This apparently inspired Yuan to learn to swim — he wanted to be able to save others just as the boatman had saved him.

Yuan began to learn from a classmate in exchange for teaching him maths. Yuan became so 5）proficient that he went on to represent Sichuan Province in a national swimming competition in Chengdu. Yuan finished fourth in his race， while the top three entered China's national swimming team program.

Yuan picked up the hobby of playing the violin from a music lover at college. He believed that the violin can 6）interpret “the sound that touches the depths of the soul” and music is the warmth that has accompanied him throughout his life. In Yuan's home， there were many music discs， all of which are works by 7）masters such as Tchaikovsky and Schubert.

Yuan once said， “People are like seeds. We should be a good seed.” We should be a good one in physical and mental. Yuan 8）ploughed himself the field， 9）indifferent to fame and wealth. With the attitude of a farmer， he enriched his spirit and harvested the 10）fragrance of the soil. Not only did he accomplish great things， but he also had a unique soul. As middle school students， we should also find our own interests and life ideals like Yuan.

提到袁隆平，我們会想到他是“杂交水稻之父”。但袁隆平的业余生活鲜为人知，他的业余爱好涉及阅读、游泳、拉小提琴等。从一名潜在的国家游泳运动员到对小提琴的热爱，以下是袁隆平生活中一些鲜为人知的方面。

袁隆平有一个独特的阅读习惯：诵读。高一时，学校举行演讲比赛，袁隆平和班上另外两名参赛选手选定演讲稿后，早起相邀到宿舍楼顶大声朗读。从那时开始，他发现大声朗读是一种很好的读书方法，不仅可以强化记忆、刺激思维、加深对文章的理解，还可以训练普通话、锻炼肺活量。参加工作后，他依然保持这一诵读习惯。每次诵读后，他再投身于田间地头研究杂交水稻。他曾用“思维体操”形容诵读，他总觉得诵读后的思维会特别活跃，精力也格外充沛。

袁隆平也是一个游泳能手。他八岁时，举家离开湖北汉口，乘船前往湖南桃园。在旅途中，年轻的袁隆平落水了，被其中一艘过往船只上的工人救起。这激发了他学习游泳的动力——他希望能够像船夫救他一样去救别人。

袁隆平开始向同学学习，交换条件是教他同学数学。袁隆平精通游泳，以至于随后他代表四川省参加在成都举行的全国游泳比赛。他在比赛中获得第四名，而前三名进入中国国家游泳队。

袁隆平在大学时从一个音乐爱好者那儿学到了拉小提琴。他相信小提琴可以诠释“最能触及灵魂深处的声音”，而音乐是陪伴他一生的温暖。袁隆平家里藏有不少音乐唱片，都是柴可夫斯基、舒伯特等大师的作品。

袁隆平曾说：“人就像种子，要做一粒好种子。” 我们要在身体与精神上都做到一个“好”字。袁隆平自己躬耕于田野，淡泊名利。他以一介农夫的姿态，丰富着自己的精神，收获着泥土的芬芳。他不仅成就了丰功伟绩，还拥有独特的灵魂。作为中学生，我们也要像袁隆平一样找到自己的兴趣爱好和人生理想。