英文天天写：一本童话书的启示
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背景介绍：
Recently, I've read a thinking-provocative fairy tale. It's about ... ...
Belinda the Ballerina
Once there was a ballerina named Belinda. Belinda loved to dance. She went to dancing school every day and practiced very hard. She was graceful and light on her feet. But Belinda had a big problem—two big problems: her left foot and her right foot.
Her feet weren’t a problem as far as Belinda was concerned. But they were a problem at the audition for the Annual Ballet Recital. The judges took one look at her feet and yelled, “STOP RIGHT THERE!” “Egad!” said Sir Fostercheese the Third. “Your feet are as big as boats!”, said George Peach Crumbcake, the noted New York critic. “They’re like flippers!” Winona Busy witch, who wrote for all the dance magazines, just shook her head and stared. Belinda didn’t even get to audition. The judges said, “Go home. You will never be a dancer—not with those feet.”
Belinda was sad. She stayed sad for a long time. “Maybe the judges are right. Maybe my feet are just too big for a dancer,” she thought. So Belinda stopped dancing. “I'm giving up ballet,” she said to herself. Since she was no longer dancing, she needed something else to do. But she didn’t know how to do anything except dance. After looking and looking, she found a job at Fred’s Fine Food. The customers liked her because she was quick and light on her feet. Fred liked her too, because she worked hard. Belinda liked Fred and the customers, but she missed dancing.
One day a band came to Fred’s Fine Food. They called themselves Fred’s Friends. Before the restaurant opened, they warmed up with a snappy toe-tapper. Belinda tapped her toes. Then they played a sweet yearning lilt of a tune, and before she knew what she was doing…Belinda was dancing! The musicians came back to play every day, and every day Belinda danced to their music before the customers arrived. Then one day Fred asked Belinda if she would dance for the customers. Belinda smiled and said, “Oh my, yes!” The customers were enthralled. They love it so much that they told their friends, who came to Fred' Fine Food the next day. And they loved it so much…that they told their friends, and soon Fred's Fine Food was packed every day with people who wanted to see Belinda dance.
Word finally reached the Maestro from the Grand Metropolitan Ballet. He came by for a look because a friend of a friend told him that he really must see Belinda dance. He was impressed. He was touched. He was moved. “You must perform at Grand Metropolitan Hall!” he cried, “Please say you will!” Belinda laughed and said. “Oh my, yes!” The customers cheered. So Belinda went to Grand Metropolitan Hall and danced to the sweet music of Fred's Friends. She loved to dance!
"Magnificent!” the judges cried. “We have discovered a swallow, a dove, a gazelle!” They didn’t even notice the size of her feet. They were too busy watching her dance. Belinda was happy, because she could dance and dance and dance. As for the judges, she didn’t care any more.
话题：
- What you have learnt from the above children story?
- DIY topic about your shortcomings?
范例1：
In most cases, the lasting fairy tales, thin cartoon pamphlets and pleasant animations teach us more about the world than any hard-cover treatise by professors or soul-soup makers.
This simple story just tells children to accept the non-perfect themselves. Give yourself a chance, and give the world a chance too. Obviously, this kind of story is more meaningful than just shouting a slogan “Do not abandon, do not give up”.
Sometimes, we force ourselves to persist in by ignoring the shortcomings. We are taught to hide the weak points in the obscurity corners but build our confidence on our strong points. Undoubtedly, it works in short term. But the weakness would make a French arrival in your progress and drag you fall down.
Some shortcomings never be covered no matter how hard you work. However, you have to face it, live along with it under the sun, understand it and forgive it to some extent. That’s just a super-size dance shoes. You may not acquire applause and praises when you take on and dance with it. But, you have a complete yourself. Standing in front of the Venus statue, no one laugh at the deformal Goddess.
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