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When courage
triumphed over fear
当勇气战胜恐惧
1. I know what
courage looks like. I saw it on a flight Itook six
years ago, and only now can I spe
ak of
itwithout tears filling my eyes at the memory.
我知道勇气是什么样子。我六年前在乘坐的一架航班上就见识了。只到现在，凭记忆述说这
件事的时候
，我才不致热泪盈眶。
2. When our plane left New York
that Friday morning,we were a talkative, high-
energy group.
The early-morning
transcontinental flight hosted mainlyprofessional
people going to San Fra
ncisco for a day or two
of business. As I looked around, Isaw lots of
designer suites, CEO-leve
l expensive haircuts,
designer briefcases and all thetrimmings of lofty
business travelers. I se
ttled back with my
paperback novel for some lightreading and the
brief flight ahead.
那是星期五的早上，当我们的飞机从纽约起飞时，我们这帮
人还高谈阔论、劲头十足。这趟
横贯大陆的清晨航班主要搭载了一些前往旧金山出差一两天的职业人士。
我向四周打量一
下，看到的多是名贵西装、经理人式的考究发型、名牌公文包以及气宇轩昂的商务旅行者
们
的各种装束。我身子往后一靠，拿出一本简装小说准备轻松阅读一下，度过时下这短暂的飞
行
。
3. Immediately upon take-off, long before we
had reached our cruising altitude, it was clear
tha
tsomething was wrong. The aircraft was
bumping vertically up and down and tilting left to
ri
the experienced travelers, including me,
looked around with knowing grins. We
hade
xperienced minor problems and turbulence
on prior flights. If you fly very much, you
seethe
se things and learn to act relaxed about
them.
飞机刚一起飞，远未达到巡航高度时，我们就明显感到有什么不对劲。飞机直上直下颠簸、
忽左忽右倾斜。我们这些有出门经验的人都四下环顾着，会心地笑了笑。在以前的飞行中，
我们
都经历过一些小问题和气流颠簸。如果你飞机坐多了，这类事情见多了，你也就学会泰
然处之了。
4. It wasn't long before our relaxed attitudes
began to evaporate. Minutes after we were
inflig
ht, our plane began dipping wildly and
one wing plunged downward. The plane
climbedhigh
er but that didn't help our plight.
The pilot soon provided some grave news regarding
theflig
ht.
没过多久我们放松的心情就开始消失了。飞行才几分钟，飞机就失控下
坠，而且一只机翼向
下倾斜。尽管飞机爬高了些，但于事无补。飞行员很快通报了这次飞行的严重事态。
5.
wheelsteering. Our indicators show that
our landin
g system has failed, which
necessitates that weabort the flight and return to
New York. Beca
use of the problems with the
mechanisms, it'sunlikely our landing gear will
lock, so the fligh
t attendants will prepare
you for a bumpylanding. Also, if you look out the
windows, you will
see that we are dumping fuel
from theairplane. We want to have as little on
board as possib
le in the event of a rough touc
hdown.
“我们现在遇到了一些麻烦，”他说。“目前看来前轮转向装置无法运转；指示器显示，我
们
的着陆系统失灵了。我们必须放弃飞行，返回纽约。由于机械装置出现了问题，我们的起落
架
可能无法锁住，因此乘务人员将帮助大家做好准备，预防着陆时的颠簸。还有，如果大家
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看一下窗外，就会看见我们正
在倾倒飞机上的燃油。我们想尽量减轻飞机的负荷，以应对飞
机硬着陆。”
6. In
other words, we were about to crash. No sight has
ever been so sobering as that fuel,hun
dreds of
gallons of it, streaming past my window out of the
plane's tanks. The flightattendan
ts scrambled
to get people into position and comforted those
who were instantaneouslyhyst
erical.
也就是说，我
们要坠机了。从飞机油箱里倒出的成百上千加仑的汽油就从舷窗外飞流直下，
没有什么比这种景象更能让
人感到事态的严重。乘务人员急于让大家各归其位，还尽力安抚
那些顷刻之间歇斯底里的乘客。
7. As I looked at the faces of my fellow
business travelers, I was stunned by the changes I
saw.
Many looked visibly frightened now. Even
the most sophisticated looked vulnerable
andgrim.
Their faces actually looked panicked.
There wasn't a single exception, and I realized
thatno o
ne faces death without fear; no one is
immune to its terror.
我看了看这些出门公干的旅伴们，惊讶地发现他们已经
神色大变。此时许多人显然吓坏了。
甚至那些饱经世故的人们也显得神经脆弱、神情严肃。他们其实已经
慌神了。无一例外！由
此，我意识到面对死神谁都害怕——无人能免俗。
8. Then,
somewhere in my proximity, I overheard astill calm
voice underlying the panic. It was a
woman's
voice, speaking in an absolutely
normalconversational tone. Despite the
circumsta
nce,there was no angry emotion or
tension, and thiscalm voice evoked a calm in me
that qui
eted some ofmy initial fears. It
became imperative that I findher.
就在此时，在我附近某个地
方，我听到一个淹没在恐慌之中的依旧从容的声音。这是一位女
性的声音，说话语调完全就像普通聊天一
样正常。尽管形势危急，这个平静的声音既没有愤
怒之情也没有紧张，唤醒了我内心的镇静，抚平了我最
初的恐惧。我急需找到她。
9. All around the cabin, people
cried. Many moaned and screamed. A few of the men
maintain
edtheir appearance of calm by bracing
against their armrests and grinding their teeth,
but th
eirfear was written all over them.
整
个机舱都是人们的哭喊声。许多人呻吟着、尖叫着。几个男人死死撑住座位扶手，咬紧牙
关，竭力保持镇
静，但是浑身上下都透出惶恐。
10. Try as I might, I could not
have spoken so calmly, so sweetly at that moment
as the fabulousv
oice I heard. Finally, I saw
her.
尽管我竭尽全力，但此刻我怎么也不可能像我听到的那个美妙的声音那样，讲话如此镇定、<
br>如此动听。终于，我看到了她。
11. In the midst of all the
chaos, a mother was talking, just talking to her
child. The woman, in h
ermid-30's and
unremarkable looking in any other way, was staring
full into the face of herda
ughter, who looked
about four years old. The child listened closely,
sensing that her mother's
words were
invaluable. The mother's gaze held the child so
fixed and intent that the childsee
med
untouched by the sounds of grief and fear all
around her.
混乱之中，一位母亲正在讲话，她就只对着自己的孩子讲。这名妇女 35
岁左右，无论怎么
看都相貌平平。她正目不转睛地盯着女儿的脸，女儿看起来大约四岁。孩子仔细聆听，
意识
到母亲的话语的分量。母亲凝视的目光让孩子听得聚精会神，似乎一点也不为周围人们哀伤
和惊恐的声音所动。
12. I strained to hear what this
mother was telling her child. I relished the sound
of calmconfide
nce amongst the terror. Finally,
I hovered nearby and by some miracle could hear
hersoft, su
re, confident voice say in a
calming tone over and over again,
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我竭力
想听清这位母亲在跟孩子讲些什么。我喜欢这恐惧中的淡定之声。最后，我凑得近了
些。幸运的是，我听
清了这温柔、沉着而自信的声音。她用平静的语调一遍遍地说：“我十
分爱你。你相信我爱你胜过一切么
？”
13. “Yes, Mommy,” the little girl said.
“是的，妈咪，”小姑娘答道。
14.
mes things happen
that are not your fault. You are my beloved, good
girl and my lo
vewill always be with you.
“不
管发生什么事情，都要记住我永远爱你，你是个好孩子。有些事情的发生并不是你的错。
你是我的乖女儿
，我的爱将永远伴随着你。”
15. As her first concern was for
her daughter's well-being, the mother then put her
body over h
erdaughter’s, strapping the seat
belt over both of them to save her daughter from a
possible
wreckage.
母亲首先心系女儿的安危，她俯身挡在女儿身上，用安
全带系住她们俩人，以免女儿被可能
的失事残片所伤。
16. Then, for no
earthly reason, our landing gear held and we
glided to a gentle stop. It was allov
er in
seconds. Our touchdown was smooth and easy; the
tragedy we had feared was not our
destiny.
而后，天知道什么原因，我们的起落架居然锁住了，飞机滑行，平稳停下。几秒钟后一切都
过去了。我们
着地顺利、轻松；我们所恐惧的悲剧并没有成为我们的宿运。
17. The voice I
heard that day never hesitated, never acknowledged
dread, and maintained anev
enness that seemed
emotionally and physically impossible. During that
descent, not one oft
he hardened business
people could have spoken without a hint of fear in
their voice. Only th
egreatest courage, with a
foundation of even greater love, had brought that
mother up andli
fted her above the chaos around
her.
那天我听到的那个声音没有丝毫的动摇，没有流露出半点惧怕，保持了一份平和。那份平和<
br>无论从感情上还是从生理上来讲都令人难以置信。在飞机下坠的过程中，见惯世事的商人们
当时说
话声中无不流露出恐惧。只有最伟大的勇气，以更伟大的爱为根基，才支撑起这位母
亲，使她超然于周围
的混乱之上。
18. That mom showed me the amazing
power of love. And for those few minutes, I heard
the vo
iceof true courage.
那位母亲给我展现了爱的惊人力量。在那短短几分钟里，我听到了真正勇气的声音。
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