2017年12月英语四级美文：Encouragement Can Work Miracles

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　　2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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　　Encouragement Can Work Miracles

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　　Someone said that encouragement is simply reminding a person

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　　of the “shoulders” he’s standing on,

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　　the heritage he’s been given.

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　　That’s what happened when a young man,

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　　the son of a star baseball player,

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　　was drafted by one of the minor-league teams.

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　　Hard as he tried,

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　　his first season was disappointing,

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　　and by midseason he expected to be released any day.

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　　The coaches were bewildered by his failure

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　　because he possessed all the characteristics of a superb athlete,

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　　but he couldn’t seem to incorporate those advantages

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　　into a coordinated effort.

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　　He seemed to have become disconnected from his potential.

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　　His future seemed darkest one day

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　　when he had already stuck out his first time at bat.

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　　Then he stepped up to the batter’s box again

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　　and quickly ran up two strikes.

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　　The catcher called a time-out

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　　and ran to the pitcher’s mound for a conference.

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　　While they were busy, the umpire,

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　　standing behind the plate,

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　　spoke casually to the boy.

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　　Then play resumed, the next pitch was thrown —

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　　and the young man knocked it out of the park.

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　　That was the turning point.

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　　From then on, he played the game with a new confidence and power

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　　that quickly drew the attention of the parent team,

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　　and he was called up to the majors.

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　　On the day he was leaving for the city,

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　　one of his coaches asked him what had caused such a turnaround.

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　　The young man replied that it was the encouraging remark

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　　the umpire had made that day

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　　when his baseball career had seemed doomed.

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　　“He told me I reminded him of all the times

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　　he had stood behind my dad in the batter’s box,”

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　　the boy explained.

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　　“He said I was holding the bat just the way Dad had held it.

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　　And he told me,

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　　‘I can see his genes in you;

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　　you have your father’s arms.

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　　After that, whenever I swung the bat,

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　　I just imagined I was using Dad’s arms instead of my own.”

　　2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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