勇气让我成长英语作文通用20篇

Third, I have been standing at a fork mouth of life. Looking back, looking at the footprints of your own growth, it does mean something. Love is Xin Qijis "ugly girl", his first words as we age children from small to large portrait.

"The young do not sorrow taste". Childhood, from just remember to middle school, always feel carefree. Hungry, looking forward to dinner; thirsty, looking forward to drinking water; scared, looking forward to Mom coming; frightened, looking forward to Dads side. These, call it, or just show it with tears and cry, will be able to get satisfactory results. Childhood is so simple, and it is so real. A little bigger, become a teenager, looking forward to be praised by the teacher, looking forward to the applause of the students, looking forward to full marks. When I was praised, like psychological flow with honey; whenever there is out, it went to the jubilant mom and dad to show off a beam with joy. At that time, how simple and innocent.

Now, the childhood in my mind has become an eternal memory, the dream of the flower season is also like a distant landscape, childhood wind like, feel, but can not see, can not touch, there are countless ways of life before, I have to walk with heavy steps wandering. Just like the taste of sorrow now". So, what about the future? Is it to open up life or to enjoy life? Yue Feis sake, Gou hardships, let me dance, father chose the former; comfortable air conditioning, cola fun, crispy potato chips, the excitement of the game so I choose the latter. Both steady stand in the balance at both ends, not the severity of the conflict scale blocking my schedule. Secondary education in less than a year will end after nine years of baptism we have strong body, sucking countless knowledge in the motherland to defeat in the mighty wave crashing on a sandy shore,? No, can not, the process of growth is painful, "enjoy life" although intoxicating, but if our youth long drunk, do not laugh for people?

Therefore, in the face of growth, we must bravely overcome the idea of ease in mind, and open up a perfect life course.

何为勇气?勇气是挑战自己，是克服自己的欲望，是努力地征服困难勇气就是勇气，勇气决不等于鲁莽。 What is courage? Courage is challenging yourself, to overcome your desire, or to conquer the courage to conquer difficulties, and courage is not equal to recklessness.

相信自己的勇气

勇气有时是稀松平常。在今年的暑假里，我们英语班换了一位新老师，我们互相一点都不熟悉，课堂上死气沉沉的。在距离下课还有七八分钟时，老师让我们在下课前背下来一篇很长的英语课文。这个任务还挺艰巨的。

我先将课文读熟，发现其实背下来不困难。果然，不一会儿就会背了。本来我立刻就想去给老师背的，可是上次背课文卡壳被老师狠狠地训了一顿的阴影挥之不去。不行，我还要再练一练!练了几遍，我真的会背了!但我的内心仍在挣扎，不知去还是不去。想去的时候，屁股刚和椅子离开，就又来了一次亲密接触。不想去的时候又必须得面对。哎!最后，心里那一丝勇气鼓舞了我，我一咬牙、一跺脚，心里一发狠：背就背，怕什么!

我努力控制住心中的恐惧，大步地走了过去，刚开始的时候，我的声音在颤抖，腿也似触电般地发抖，渐渐的，我融入进了这篇课文当中，安静的教室里只能听见我流利的背诵声。

坚持不懈的勇气

去年，我们的体育老师带着我们班去测试800米长跑。

老师一声令下，我们像猎豹一样冲了出去。开始的时候，我在心里对自己说：这800米也太简单了，跑就可以了。可是，事情并没有想象的那么简单，渐渐地，我的步伐越来越沉重，心跳越来越快，头发湿漉漉的，身上的短袖完全湿透了。就在这时，我仿佛听到一个声音：歇歇吧，马生睿，旁边就是草坪，躺在上面吧!可是我没有听从这个声音，而是听从了心里的另一个声音：加油!一定要坚持下去!最后，我真的坚持下来了!

如果说困难是高山，我们就要用勇气去征服它;如果说挑战是海洋，我们就要用勇气去探索它;如果说缺点是沟壑，我们就要用勇气去跨越它。

光阴似箭，日月如梭。在我的脑海里往事如星辰一般，似昨天刚发生过的一件事，历历在目，其中有一件刻骨铭心的事情。

The flight of time, Time flies like a shuttle. In my mind, the past is like a star. Its like a thing that happened yesterday. I remember it vividly. There is an unforgettable thing in it.

那是一个夏日的黄昏，害羞的夕阳躲在青山背后。我兴致勃勃的向爸爸提议：“爸爸，你教我骑车好吗?”“好。”爸爸爽快的答应了。于是，我和爸爸推着自行车来到了小路上。开始骑了，我先坐到车座上，爸爸在后面推着我，推了一会，爸爸松手了，我一时掌握不了平衡，左外右拐，蛇形前进。走了一段路后，我差不多会骑了。突然，前面出现了一块石头，我想让车子绕过它，可车子就是不听使唤，车子一下子撞上了，我也摔在了地上。这时爸爸跑过来对我说：“不要紧吧，骑车要坐直，眼睛要看着前方，还要保持平衡。”我按照爸爸的化去做，果然成功了。

It was a summer evening, and the shy sunset hid behind the castle peak. I excitedly suggested to my father: "Daddy, will you teach me how to ride a bike?"" "Good."." Dad readily agreed. So, my father and I pushed our bicycles to the path. Started riding, I sat on the seat first, Dad pushed me in the back, pushed for a while, Dad let go, I can not control the balance, left turn right, snake forward. I almost rode when I walked a little bit. Suddenly, a stone appeared in front of me. I wanted the car to go round it, but the car wouldnt listen. The car crashed into me and I fell to the ground. Then dad ran up to me and said, "dont worry, sit straight, watch your eyes, and keep your balance."." I did it according to my father, and I succeeded.

通过这件事，我明白了挫折铸就成功，阳光总在风雨后，只有经历了风雨后才能见到彩虹，也只有经历了种种磨难之后，我们才能茁壮成长。

Through this matter, I understand, the frustration of success, the sun always in the wind and rain, only after experiencing the storm to see the rainbow, and only through a variety of hardships, we can thrive.

how times flies!Now I am a student in Grade Nine and facing the first turning point in my school life.This title “Growing pains and gains”reminds me of the meaningful school life.The colourful life is full of my happiness and sorrows.

In school,I have to take a lot of lessons.Some are in teresting while some are boring.But its the responsibility of the students to leam them all well. I have to try my best.During my growing time,a lot of trouble worried me.Thats awful and makes me blue.

Although I met with a lot of failure, I still have a lot of gains.I can make a priceless freiendship. I can leam a large number of usful things----to be kind,friendly to others, to be confident and independent and so on.

I think growing pains and gains are coutless.But they play an important role in my life and make my life colourful.

Every man, and he will meet many troubles in the process of growth. For example: there are some people in the rush you all day you feel he is too tired, sometimes what the heart is too stuffy feel tired, you wont do bad, i.e., but someone always ask and tell you... This is just like "the little boy" this song.

And my troubles clearly this is what I can do, but someone always ask me, tell me, I feel too tired, she is too nagging.

In this summer, my mother has been asking me, tell me, I think she nagging.

That day, mom and dad they have go out to work, I was the only one in the home, I eat breakfast, homework downstairs, the telephone suddenly rang "keeps keeps......" I ran to answer the phone, I didnt think from the mother, she asked, where you are, in the upstairs? The door is there; If in the down stairs, remember upstairs when closed the door, or the thief would come in... I only answered a hang your phone, my mother is very nagging! Noon, after I had finished eating, the mother again to phone asked: "are you eating dinner now? The gas has not related, if not will shut gas poisoning or fire explosion, do upstairs to open the window to let the air circulation!" "I understand!" I answered. And give hung up the phone. ......

Mother I know this is you care about me, afraid I was hurt, but I have grown up, it became my worries!

每一个人，他在成长的过程中都会遇到许多的烦恼。比如说：有一些人在整天催你你感到他实在是太烦了，有时候心里太闷了什么世都觉得很烦、明明是你不会做坏，却有人一直问你、告诉你……这个正好跟《小小少年》这一首歌唱的一样。

而我的烦恼明明这一事是我可以做好的，但是却有人一直问我、告诉我、我觉得太烦了，她太唠叨了。

就在这一个夏天里，我的妈妈就一直问我，告诉我，我觉得她号唠叨。

那一天，爸爸和妈妈他们已经出去上班了，家里只有我一个人，我吃完早饭，正在楼下写作业的时候，电话铃声突然响了“丁零零……丁零零……”我赶紧跑过去接电话，没想到世妈妈打来的，她问，你在哪里，在楼上吗?那门有没有关;如果在楼下的话，记住上楼时把门关了，不然小偷会进来的……我只回答了一声就把电话挂了，我的妈妈好唠叨啊!中午了，我吃完饭后，妈妈又来电话了问：“你现在吃完饭了吗?煤气有没有关，如果没关会煤气中毒或遇到火爆炸的，做楼上要打开窗户让空气流通!”“我明白了!”我回答。又把电话给挂了。……

妈妈我知道你这是关心我，怕我受伤，可是我已经长大了，这成了我的烦恼!

When we were children, we often say that I want to grow up, or I want to be

an adult. As children, we cannot do many things, while after we grow up, we can.

However, we often complain that I don’t want to grow up when we become adults

actually.

Firstly, growing up means more responsibilities. We should make a living by

ourselves or we should support our parents when they can’t earn enough money to

make a living.

Econdly, after graduation, we need to work instead of accomplishing

nothing. We should have a target and work for it, so we have pressure on

jobs.

Every coin has two sides. Grow up can also broaden our horizon, offer us an

opportunity to know more about our world, love and protect the important person

in our life. Don’t be afraid of growing up, just be a better person and enjoy

our life.

It’s beyond reproach that we will come across all kinds of difficulties and

challenges in our life time .Some will be subjected to frequent sadness .Some

will lose their way to move on .Thus,only when we equip ourselves with hope and

courage can we finally succeed in the uncertain future.

Forrest Gump showed so great courage in the movie that he touched me a lot

. For one thing,no matter when and where Jenny got into trouble ,Forrest Gump

would bring her out of it without thinking how dangerous the situation would be

.Maybe we should all fell ashamed that we love ourselves more than we love love

,but Forrest showed great courage in love .For another,Forrest gump risked his

life to save Bubba in the war.It’s courage that helped Forrest gain a series of

honor after war .Forrest Gump is beautiful for his perseverance and touches

others with his courage.

A person can’t do without courage in terms of love and friendship ,let

alone life . A weak person may avoid the difficulties ,but a person with courage

will face up to it head-on. Therefore,let’equip ourselves with great

courage.

中国人何时能突破世间功名的限制，多些勇气，何时便会出现更多诺贝尔奖。 When can the Chinese break through the restrictions of the world ’s reputation and have more courage, when there will be more Nobel Prize.

——白岩松

白先生之话，是对于文坛。然于世间芸芸众生，又何尝不是如此?太多的人将利益放在首位，被尘世价值束缚了思想，锁住了腾飞的翅膀。由此勇气丧失，战战兢兢苟且一生，孰不知以勇气突破世俗价值，那一片天地才真正属于自己。

正如那颗硕大的钻石，做为雕刻师，内心当拥有美的源泉，却皆因害怕价值损毁，放弃了雕刻美的机会。唯有勇气者，无价值之捆绑，一刀切下，美丽为之绽放，亦令其他切割师为之汗颜。

推开历史的大门，一窥逝去的光影与历史，脱离世俗价值者，皆以勇气寻行自己的人生。李白褪去官臣之服，纵情天地间，酒醒明月下，梦逐潮声去，以勇气发出“世间行乐亦如此，古来万事东流水”之叹，收获洒脱人生;陶潜不窥牡丹之艳，观天边云卷云舒，以勇气“采菊东篱下，悠然见南山”，收获淡泊人生;刘禹锡不慕皇宫之贵，独居山间陋室，观苔痕阶绿，草色帘青，以勇气悟得“可以调素琴，阅金经”之生活美，收获静好人生。他们，都睥睨于高山之上，独立于世俗价值之外，以“他人笑我太疯癫，我笑世人看不穿”之勇气，嘲笑那官场中追名逐利之人，他们收获的才是至美人生。

观过历史，喧嚣尘世中，创造永恒之美者，皆忽视尘世价值，以勇气描绘内心孤独，于文坛如沈从文，忽视功名利禄，文字肃穆高远，处处流淌着明亮之色;如钱钟书，一生寂静，规避外界声响，文风磅礴大气;如周汝昌，面对争议苦不谐，用自己的崇情文化，浪漫色彩与曹雪芹相对而语。而现如今，又有谁有这样的勇气，不考虑书的销量独诉内心之语?不注意世人非议独坐学问长河?再看画家赵天放，脱离中国文化圈，独自学习外国画诀，成为浪漫抽象派鼻祖。彼时有此勇气者，再寻不得第二人。

故突破尘世价值者，方可收获真正意义上的价值，然尘世愈喧嚣，人之勇气愈少。有谁可如莫言般探索人类苦难呢?又有谁如朴树般十年发得一张专辑?在商业文字、商业歌曲泛滥的今天，相信总会有人发现有这样一片天地，没有浓烈的金属味道，清风拂过，春暖花开，也相信总会有人回首望一眼尘世，以足够的勇气踏入这片天地。

那么，尘世的价值便在向外了，美属于你，桃花盛开，清风自来。

在我成长生活中，发生过许多令我后悔的事，其中一件令我印象最深。

One of the things I regretted when I was growing up was one of the things that impressed me the most.

夏天到了，炎热的太阳炙烤着大地，我热得头上直冒汗，妈妈见我这个样子说：“天这么热，要不我们一起下去游泳吧！”妈妈这句话把我吓住了，但我还是装作明知故问的样子说：“为什么？”妈妈跟我翻了个白眼说：“还问为什么，谁叫你长这么大了还不会游泳呀。”我不敢再反抗，只好和妈妈穿着泳衣下去了。

Summer, the hot sun baked the earth, I was sweating on the head, I see my mother like this said: "such a hot day, or we go swimming together!" Mom this word I scared, but I still pretend you know what is said: "why?" My mother turned to me and said, "why? Who told you to grow so big that you couldnt swim?"." I dared not resist any more and had to go swimming with my mother in her swimsuit.

我换完泳衣之后，蹑手蹑脚地走向泳池，我一下去就感到全身发抖，妈妈先叫我扶住游泳池的阶梯，然后用手把我的肚子扶起来，再叫我游。才游了一半，妈妈突然放手，我使劲地游呀游，但是呛了几口水，沉到水里去了。我不想练了，妈妈劝我继续练，我发脾气硬要回家，妈妈没办法只好跟我一起回家。

After I changed my swimsuit, I tiptoed toward the swimming pool. As soon as I went down, I felt my whole body shaking. My mother asked me to hold the steps of the swimming pool first, and then she helped me with my stomach. Then she called me to swim. Just swim half, mother suddenly let go, I swim, swim, but choke a few saliva, sink into the water. I do not want to practice, my mother advised me to continue to practice, I temper, insist on going home, mother can not help but go home with me.

直到现在我都不会游泳，因此受到别人的挖苦讽刺，我很后悔那一次没有听妈妈的劝告。我以后要勇敢点，把困难克服，学会游泳。

I couldnt swim until now, so I was sorry for not having listened to my mothers advice. I will be brave, overcome the difficulties, learn to swim.

成长是舍弃，你需要勇气忍受失去的痛苦;成长是挑战，你需要勇气战胜途中的风雨;成长是责任，你需要勇气挑起肩上的重担。

——题记

带着幼稚的思维，尚未成熟的脸，我正品尝着成长带来的酸与甜，这个时候，我需要什么?

一幅美好的画面展开在我的记忆当中。躺在大地的怀中，感受她流动的血液，散发的体香。抬头望着蔚蓝色的幕布上，几缕被风儿追赶的云，慢悠悠地跑着。天的颜色在我的眼中闪烁，和同伴海阔天空地闲聊，银铃般的笑声充满整个田野，飘荡在空中。现在，我只能在题海中挣扎，快要被淹没。当疲倦的眼望向窗外，只能隔着玻璃看天空，成长让我失去了与青草大地为伴的日子。我需要勇气，让自己不再悲伤。

当学习、生活上的困难和挫折像潮水一般向我涌来，我还能睁着迷茫的双眼问：“妈，我该怎么办?”也许父母还会一如既往保护我，一如既往地为遮风挡雨，不让我受到一丝伤害。但这不能成为永远，总有一天我会走出呵护，独自去面对，因为我已经长大。太多的呵护只会让我的心像鸡蛋壳一样不堪一击。我需要勇气去接受挑战，尽管我会遍体鳞伤，但只有风雨的洗礼才能让我变得更加坚强。

父母依然会无微不至地照顾我，但更多的却是期望。在他们眼中我已不是那个只会哭闹的小丫头了，我自己也认为我已经长大了。再也不能依偎在母亲的怀里撒娇。望着父母已渐苍老的脸，时间的流逝在他们身上留下了不可磨灭地痕迹，这标志着他们为我的成长付出的心血。我的身上已多了一份责任，我需要勇气挑起肩上的重担，为父母撑起一把伞。

成长需要勇气，抹去悲伤，战胜困难，挑起重担，走向美好未来……

Trees do not experience wind and rain, how can grow into towering trees? Life does not have hard, how can contain suantiankula? , the same growth to have no trouble, how can really grow?

Trouble, a frown even infants to the word, is indispensable in our growth, in our growth is to worry for dont worry, feel life from trouble, grow up gradually.

When I was a child, your trouble is the stones on the road, you can only kicked it or cliff; When young, your trouble is the potholes on the road, you can only in the past or fill it; When I grow up, your trouble is huge mounds, you can only climb over, or remove it like yu gong.

We worry now is the potholes on the road: the past is the best choice, we worry more than one, fill to fill in what time? As long as the foot step across, in the past.

Therefore, sometimes troubles dont too persistent, in another more simple way to resolve worries.

Happiness and worry is.

The rocky road of growth, but it is not a barrier bumpy.

小树不经历风雨，怎能长成参天大树?人生不拥有艰辛，怎能饱含酸甜苦辣?同样的，成长中没有过烦恼，怎能真正地成长?

烦恼，一个连婴儿听了都皱眉的词，却是我们成长中必不可少的东西，在我们的成长中，就是要化烦恼为不烦恼，从烦恼中感悟人生，渐渐成长。

小时候，你的烦恼是路上的石子，你只能踢开它或者绕路走;青年时，你的烦恼是路上的坑洼，你只能越过去或者填平它;长大后，你的烦恼是一座座大山，你只能攀越过去，或者像愚公一样移开它。

我们现在的烦恼就是路上的坑洼：越过去是最好的选择，我们的烦恼不止一个，填要填到什么时候?只要脚大步一跨，就过去了。

因此有的时候，面对烦恼不要太执着了，要以另一个更为简单的方法去化解烦恼。

快乐与烦恼是并存的。

成长的路途坎坷，但坎坷却不是天堑。

留不住岁月的脚步，留不住儿时的童真，我跟着似水流年的岁月慢慢长大。一路收获，一路成长……

还记得小时候跌倒的情景吗？

那天风和日丽，我在家门口玩耍，突然不小心摔了一跤，磕破了膝盖。妈妈闻讯赶来，左看右看没有找到可以打骂的东西。妈妈说：“坏风儿，坏风儿害得宝贝摔跟头”我扑哧一声笑了，“妈妈，今天没有风。是我自己不小心摔倒的。”妈妈抬头看看天，是呀，天气闷热的连丝风都没有。妈妈没有说什么，她只是抚摸着我的头笑了。我忍受着疼痛，鼓起勇气站起来。

成长，需要勇气。跌倒了要有勇气站起来，犯错误了要有勇于承担错误的勇气。

转眼间，我快小学毕业了。在人生前行的路上，我们或许迷茫，不知所措。被一个个岔路口所迷惑，那将是对我们的考验。选择一条荆棘丛生崎岖不平的小路，还是选择一条通往光明之路的康庄大道？有勇气去选择，就要有勇气服输。不过没有彻底的失败，也没有完全的成功。一切还是需要一种坚持与坚强。我们还是要经过无数的黎明，无数的黑暗。但黎明之后是光明，黑暗之后是光明。

成长，需要勇气。面对挫折一笑而过，“一切都是瞬息，一切都将过去；而那过去了的，就会成为亲切的怀恋”

成长的路上，充满挑战，充满刺激与惊险。你是否能化险为夷？前方的路是未知的，或许黑暗，但我们不要为之放弃，有勇气把握自己的人生，有勇气挑战自己。

成长，需要勇气。磕磕绊绊的经历会让我们的阅历更加丰富精彩。

勇气是人类文明亘古不变的主题，但是对勇气的系统性研究却是最近才开始的。什么是勇气？勇气从何而来？它在身体和大脑中是如何体现的？为何我们会对它如此之挚爱？没有恐惧感是不是件好事情呢？本文将一一予以解答。

In his 20 years as a firefighter and paramedic in Colorado Springs, Bruce Monson, 43, has had his little fist-bumps with death: a burning roof collapsing on top of him, toxic fumes nearly suffocating him.

在其作为科罗拉多斯普林斯（Colorado Springs）市消防员和急救人员的20年生涯里，43岁的布鲁斯·蒙逊（Bruce Monson）跟死神有过小小的亲密接触：一座燃烧的屋顶从他头顶坍塌，有毒气体几乎令其窒息。

Yet far more terrifying than any personal threats are what Mr. Monson describes as the "bad kid calls," like the one from a mother who had put her 18-month-old son down in his crib right next to a window with a Venetian blind and its old-fashioned cord.

但是比所有的个人威胁都要恐怖得多的，是被蒙逊先生描述为"捣蛋鬼电话"的，就像是一位妈妈打过来的电话一样，这位母亲把自己18个月大的孩子放到了婴儿床上，而婴儿床则正好靠近一个带有软百叶窗和老式绳索的窗户。

"The kid had grabbed the cord and gotten it twisted around his neck, and the mother came in and found him hanging there," said Mr. Monson. "Im the first one in the door, shes in a panic, and she shoves the kid into my arms, crying, Please save him, please save him! "

"小孩抓住了那条绳子，然后被绳子绕住了自己的脖子，接着母亲进来就发现他悬在那里了"，蒙逊先生说："我是第一个上门的，她还在恐慌之中，一把就将孩子塞到我手臂里，哭着说，请救救他，快救救他！"。

The childs body was blue, but Mr. Monson and his fellows met parental despair with professional focus and did everything they could. "We worked on him for over an hour," said Mr. Monson. "Its like a state of calm. Youre so tuned in to what youre doing, youre not thinking about the reality of the situation."

孩子的身体都已经发紫了，但蒙逊先生和同伴的职业素养遭遇了父母的绝望眼神，他们竭尽所能。"我们在孩子身上努力了一个多钟头"，蒙逊先生说："那就好像是进入了一种入定的状态。你对自己的正在做的事情是如此的全神贯注，以至于到了弃现实情况于不顾的地步"。

Their best was not enough, however, and later, at the hospital, the terrible sadness settled in.

然而，尽其所能仍回天乏力，随后在医院里传来了噩耗。

As Mr. Monson filled out his report, the mother sat in the trauma rooms designated "bereavement rocking chair," rocking her dead son, saying her goodbyes, while family members filed in and wailed at the sight.

正如蒙逊在报告中所写的那样，那位母亲坐在创伤室指定的"丧亲摇摇椅"上，不断摇晃着她死去的孩子，喃喃着自己的告别，此情此景，一旁的家庭成员也哀嚎不已。

An image of that mother in her rocking chair comes to Mr. Monsons mind every time he answers another "bad kid" call, spurring him to keep going, to never give up or grow sloppy or cynical, to simply do his job; and through doing his job, he has saved far more lives than he has lost.

每次接到一个又一个的"捣蛋鬼"电话时，蒙逊先生的脑海总会浮现出那位母亲坐在摇摇椅上的景象，激励着他不断前进，永不放弃，永远都不能麻痹大意或者是愤世嫉俗，只想着做好自己的工作；通过他的努力，他所救活的生命远远超过了失去的。

Only once did he allow the furniture connection to spook him — when his own wife was at the same hospital having emergency surgery for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, and his young daughter happened to climb onto the bereavement seat. "I knew it was a totally irrational thing to do," he said, "but I made her get out of that chair."

这种联想只有一次让他被吓到了—— 当他自己的妻子因为宫外孕破裂在同一家医院接受急救手术的时候，他年轻的女儿恰巧爬上了那张丧亲之椅。"我知道，这完全是一件荒谬的事情"，他说："但是我把她从椅子上弄下来了"。

Courage is something that we want for ourselves in gluttonous portions and adore in others without qualification. Yet for all the longstanding centrality of courage to any standard narrative of human greatness, only lately have researchers begun to study it systematically, to try to define what it is and is not, where it comes from, how it manifests itself in the body and brain, who we might share it with among nonhuman animals, and why we love it so much.

勇气是某种我们希望自己富有并无保留地仰慕别人拥有的东西。在人类文明的任何标准记叙当中，勇气的中心地位一直是屹立不倒的，尽管如此，但是研究者也只是最近才开始对它进行系统性的研究，试图去定义什么是勇气，什么不是勇气，勇气从何而来，它在身体和大脑中是如何体现的，在非人类的动物里面我们会跟谁分享勇气，以及为何我们会对它如此之挚爱。

A new report in the journal Current Biology describes the case of a woman whose rare congenital syndrome has left her completely, outrageously fearless, raising the question of whether its better to conquer ones fears, or to never feel them in the first place.

《现代生物学》杂志的一份新报告描述了一个案例，一位患有罕见的先天性综合症的女人，在全然无所畏惧的情况下彻底痊愈，报告向我们提出了一个问题，是否说克服恐惧，或者永远不把恐惧摆在首位是不是会更好？

In another recent study, neuroscientists scanned the brains of subjects as they struggled successfully to overcome their terror of snakes, identifying regions of the brain that may be key to our everyday heroics.

在另一份最新研究中，神经系统科学家扫描了成功克服了对蛇的恐惧感的研究对象的大脑，确定了有可能是我们平常英雄事迹的关键的大脑区域。

Researchers in the Netherlands are exploring courage among children, to see when the urge for courage first arises, and what children mean when they call themselves brave.

荷兰的研究者正在探索儿童的勇气之源，试图找出什么时候会催生出勇气来，以及孩子们自称勇敢时其意思是什么。

The theme of courage claims a long and gilded ancestry. Plato included courage among the four cardinal or principal virtues, along with wisdom, justice and moderation.

勇气这个主题有着久远而辉煌的历史。柏拉图把勇气与智慧、正义及节制一起，列为四种体液或称之为四美德。

"As a major virtue, courage helps to define the excellent person and is no mere optional trait," writes George Kateb, a political theorist and emeritus professor at Princeton University. "One of the worst reproaches in the world is to be called a coward."

"作为一项主要美德，勇气帮助我们定义优秀之人，它不是可有可无的选项"，普林斯顿大学的政治理论家和名誉教授乔治·卡泰（George Kateb）说："这个世界上最糟糕的指责之一就是被称为懦夫"。

Yet defining what it means to be courageous has often proved as thistly as distinguishing the wise ones from the fools. For Plato and many other authorities, courage is above all a martial art, most readily displayed on the battlefield — the iconic brave solder running into the line of fire to retrieve an injured comrade.

但是，要界定什么是勇敢，往往被证明跟在愚者中区分出智者一样的棘手。对于柏拉图和许多其他的权威来说，勇气首先是一种搏击术，最容易在战场上展示出来——标志性的铁血战士冲破火线救出受伤的战友。

But Dr. Kateb points out that if courage finds its highest expression in war, then the trait paradoxically becomes an immoral virtue, ennobling war and carnage by insisting that only in battle can men — and it usually is men — discover the depths of their nobility.

但是卡泰博士指出，如果说勇敢在战争中有最高表现的话，那么其特点就自相矛盾地成为不道德的美德，强调人们，通常是指男人，只有通过战争才能发掘其灵魂深处的高贵，从而把战争和屠杀高尚化。

Marilynne Robinson, the novelist and social critic, has observed that courage is "dependent on cultural definition" and "rarely expressed except where there is sufficient consensus to support it." Where religious martyrdom is lionized, there will be martyrs; where social or political protest is seen as glorious warfare in civvies, there will be a rash of red-faced declaimers, soapboxes on every street.

玛丽琳·罗宾逊（Marilynne Robinson），小说家和社会评论家，她已经注意到勇气"依赖于文化定义"，"很少被表达出来，除了在得到足够的舆论支持的场合"。在为宗教而罹难者被奉为圣人的地方，就会有殉道者；在社会或政治抗议被视为光荣的平民斗争的地方，每一条街道临时搭建的演讲台上就都会充斥着面红耳赤、激昂陈词的演说家。

In pioneering work from 1970s and beyond, Stanley J. Rachman of the University of British Columbia and others studied the physiology and behavior of paratroopers as they prepared for their first parachute jump.

在上世纪70年代及之后的开创性工作中，不列颠哥伦比亚大学的斯坦利.J.拉赫曼（Stanley J.Rachman）等人在其首次跳伞准备的过程中研究了伞兵的生理及行为特征。

The work revealed three basic groups: the preternaturally fearless, who displayed scant signs of the racing heart, sweaty palms, spike in blood pressure and other fight-or-flight responses associated with ordinary fear, and who jumped without hesitation; the handwringers, whose powerful fear response at the critical moment kept them from jumping; and finally, the ones who reacted physiologically like the handwringers but who acted like the fearless leapers, and, down the hatch.

这项工作发现了三个基本组别：超乎寻常的大无畏者，很少表现出心跳加速、血压升高、手心出汗及其他的与平常恐惧有关的战或逃反应，在跳伞的时候总是毫不犹豫；踌躇紧张者，在关键时刻其强大的恐惧反应令其不敢跳下；以及最后一组，在生理反应上与踌躇紧张者一致，但却像无畏的跳伞者一样行动、最终跳下舱口的人。

These last Dr. Rachman deemed courageous, defining courage as "behavioral approach in spite of the experience of fear." By that expansive definition, courage becomes democratized and demilitarized, the property of any wallflower who manages to give the convention speech, or the math phobe who decides to take calculus.

其中最后一组被拉赫曼博士视为勇敢，即"弃恐惧体验于不顾的行为方式"。按照这种扩展性定义，勇气变得民主化和非军事化，它是任何一位设法进行提名演讲的局外人的专属，或者是一位对数学恐惧的人决定去学微积分。

Through interviews with some 320 children aged 8 to 13, Peter Muris of Erasmus University Rotterdam and his colleagues found that children also equate courage with the conquering of ones fears, and more than 70 percent of the respondents claimed they had performed one or more brave acts, including rescuing a little brother whod fallen in the swimming pool, saving a cat from a tree, biking home through the woods at night, and stealing money from ones mothers purse — yes, that will make the heart race, all right.

通过对大概320位年龄在8岁到3岁之间的小孩的采访，鹿特丹大学（Erasmus University Rotterdam）的彼得·缪里斯（Peter Muris）及其同事发现，孩子们也把克服恐惧等同视为勇敢的表现，超过70%的调查对象声称自己进行了一或多项勇敢的行为，包括搭救跌落泳池的小弟弟，拯救树上的一个小猫咪，晚上穿越树林骑车回家，以及从妈妈钱包里偷东西——是的，这些都会令心跳加速，好吧。

Joel Berger, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Montana, also distinguishes between animals that behave boldly for lack of experience — like mockingbirds unfamiliar with humans that will alight on the rim of a persons cup to take a drink — and those that are aware of a danger but proceed in the face of it.

乔尔·博格（Joel Berger），野生动物保护协会及蒙大拿大学的一位生物学家，也把缺乏经验而行为大胆的动物区分出来——像不熟悉人类的嘲鸟会飞落到某人杯子的边缘喝上一口——而那些意识到危险的则会弃之不顾继续飞行。

He cited the time he and his colleagues had immobilized a young bison in preparation for taking blood samples, and when they returned, an unrelated adult male bison was standing guard over the yearling, refusing to let the scientists approach.

他举了一个例子，某次自己和同事固定住一头年轻的野牛，准备采血样，当他们回来的时候，一头不相干的成年雄性野牛却守卫在小牛的周围，拒绝让科学家靠近。

"He knew that he could be attacked by us, and there was no genetic kinship involved," said Dr. Berger. "Courage may be a human construct, but Id call this a courageous, even heroic act."

"它知道自己有可能被我们攻击，而且它们之间也没有遗传的亲缘关系"，博格说："勇敢也许是人类行为，但是我会把这一举动称为有胆量、甚至是英勇行为"。

Seeking to capture the sensation of courage in real time, Yadin Dudai, a neurobiologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues scanned the brains of people with a known phobia toward snakes as they were confronted with a live, large, harmless but indubitably serpentine corn snake.

为了能实时捕捉到勇敢的体验，以色列雷霍沃特魏茨曼科学研究所的也丁·杜代（Yadin Dudai）及其同事，在一个放有一条大型的、活体的、无害的但是的确是蛇无疑的玉米锦蛇的现场扫描了一位已知对蛇有恐惧感的人的大脑。

Lying in the scanner, the subjects could choose either to allow a box holding the snake to come closer, or to keep it away. As reported last June in the journal Neuron, the participants who squelched their terror and pressed the "snake approach" button showed activation of a brain region called the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex.

躺在扫描仪里，受试者可以选择让装有蛇的箱体靠近自己，或把它拿开。根据去年6月《神经元》杂志的报导，克服了自己恐惧感、按下"让蛇靠近"按钮的受试者，在一个被称为亚属前扣带皮质的大脑区域发现有活动。

Located toward the front of the brain, the structure has been implicated in depression and, intriguingly, altruistic behavior, and is thought to help negotiate between emotion and cognition, impulse and calculation.

该结构位于大脑的前部，与抑郁、魅力及利他行为有关联，被认为是在情感和认知、冲动和考量之间起到帮助的部分。

The thumb-size bundle of neurons acknowledges the yellow belly within but then moves to stanch its quivering power. And it does this in large part by dialing down the activity of the amygdala, long known as the brains central headquarters of fear.

这个拇指大小的神经元束能认知内在的懦弱，但是随后会转移到平息颤抖的能量。它会在很大程度上降低黄杏体的活动，长久以来那都被认为是恐惧的中枢。

For the serious cowards among us, the chronic need to conquer fear can get tedious. Why not just skip the anterior cingulate reveille and muzzle the brains fear response for good? The story of SM, a 44-year-old woman whose rare genetic condition has selectively destroyed the brains twinned set of amygdala, shows the clear downside of a life without fear.

对于我们当中具有严重胆怯的人来说，习惯性的克服恐惧的需要会变得乏味起来。何不干脆一劳永逸地无视大脑前扣带的起床号，让大脑对恐惧的反应缄默呢？那个SM的故事，一位患有罕见遗传病的44岁女人选择性地破坏其大脑孪生杏黄体集之后的结果，表明了缺乏恐惧的生活的明显缺陷。

As Justin Feinstein, a clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Iowa, and his colleagues describe in Current Biology, the otherwise normal SM is incapable of being spooked.

正如衣阿华大学的临床神经心理学家贾斯汀·范士丹（Justin Feinstein）及其同事在《当代生物学》杂志中所描述的那样，在其他方面正常的SM对受惊吓已无反应。

She claimed to fear snakes and spiders, and maybe she did in her pre-disease childhood, but when the researchers took her to an exotic pet store, they were astonished to see that not only did she not avoid the snakes and spiders, she was desperate to hold them close.

她宣称害怕蛇和蜘蛛，也许她在患病前的儿童时期的确如此，但是当她被研究人员带到一个国外的宠物店的时候，他们惊奇地发现，她不仅不回避蛇和蜘蛛，而且还拼命抓起它们套近乎。

The researchers took SM to a haunted house, and she laughed at the scary parts and blithely made the monster-suited employees jump. She was shown clips from famous horror films like "The Silence of Lambs" and "Halloween," and she showed no flickers of fright.

研究人员把SM带到鬼屋，她却冲着可怕的地方大笑，还快活地让穿着怪物服装的工作人员乱跳不已。给她看著名的恐怖片像《沉默的羔羊》和《万圣节》的电影剪辑时，她都没有表现出丝毫的恐惧感。

This fearlessness may be fine in the safety of ones living room, but it turns out that SM makes her own horror films in real life. She walks through bad neighborhoods alone at night, approaches shady strangers without guile, and has been repeatedly threatened with death.

这种大无畏也许在一个人的客厅里面是安全的，但是事实证明，SM在现实生活中制造了她自己的恐怖电影。她晚上独自一人穿过其恶邻的屋子，毫不保留地接近名声不好的陌生人，并以多次受到死亡的威胁。

"We have an individual whos constantly putting herself into harms way," said Mr. Feinstein. "If we had a million SMs walking around, the world would be a total mess."

"这里我们看到了一个不断将自己置身于伤害方式的个体"，范士丹先生说："如果我们周围有一百万个SM在游荡的话，整个世界都将变得一团糟"。

The bad calls would keep coming, and the rocking chairs never stop.

捣蛋鬼电话仍在不断打进来，而摇摇椅则永远也不会停止摇摆。

[寻找勇气之源英语作文

Courage is very important. Everyone needs it. We will meet many

difficulties in our life and sometimes we will fail, but we can’t lose courage.

If we lose courage, we can’t do anything, because we don’t dare to do anything;

we are afraid of failure. This is my Chinese teacher me in the first class. I

agree with him. For example, we don’t have the courage to hands up to say our

answer, how can we know we are right or wrong. I will remember his word

forever,” never lose courage .”

没有勇气什么都做不成。如果没有勇气，成龙不会拍出那么多武打片;如果没有勇气，那些现在红得发紫的明星也不会有那么大的成就。做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。

我们都很勇敢?是的。如果我们不勇敢，怎么可能脱离妈妈温暖的羊水来到这个美好而又残酷的世界。没有勇气，我们不可能经历无数的挫折，然后长大。做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。

勇敢其实并不难。经常会有这种话语：“你真胆小。”“你要勇敢!”“…………”但是你要知道，你是勇敢的，至少，你也勇敢过。做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。

听到这些话语，你会很郁闷吧?其实并不需要郁闷。只要你知道：“我是勇敢的!”其实你本来就很勇敢。其他人也是这样。所以你不要嘲笑别人不勇敢。大家都是勇敢的。做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。

第一次上台演讲，第一次表演节目，第一次当着很多人的面发表对另一个人的看法……人生中有很多第一次，这些第一次中，你都会觉得自己并不勇敢。其实你是勇敢的。做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。

挫折是必须面对的，成长中必定有挫折。不经过风风雨雨，没有挫折的磨练，你必定不会成功。而面队这些挫折时，需要勇敢。你可以不勇敢，但是你不能永远不勇敢。做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。

做什么事情都需要勇气，成长，也一样。想要快乐，想要成功，必须勇敢。

在我看来，成长之路，勇气是必不可少的一个东西。我们干什么事都需要勇气。比如那一天，勇气就让我学到了很多。那是一个炎热的星期天，我正在家里看电视，突然，我的好朋友来找我。他让我出去玩，我说：这么大热天的，去哪啊？他说：我们去天中广场，等去了你就知道了。我思索了一会儿，说：好吧。走，我们现在就出发。妈妈听了笑笑，说：这么热的天你们要出去啊，来，我给你几块钱，热了好卖冰棍。我高兴极了，走。出发。

我们一会儿便到了天中广场的气象台，我说：来这干嘛啊，他笑了笑，说：你看那边的池塘边上。我看了看，那边有一条窄窄的边，那很窄，却很高，足有1米高。我看了看，说：哎呀，你带我来这里干啥。他说：你看着吧。说着，便走了上去。那一条窄路紧贴气象台，他两手伸开。一步一步挪动着。我说：你真胆大，他说：你也会行的你试试吧。我思考了一会儿，说：好吧。他看我的神情说：韩。只要你有勇气，就一定会成功的。我点了点头，有了一份勇气，说：我一定能行。我战战克克走了上去，脚刚踏上去，勇气就减少了一点。这是我看我的好朋友已经快到头儿了，在心里想，我一定能行，不要害怕。于是，我就开始走。一会儿，便走了半截，我心中的勇气又增加了一点。开始加快速度，一会儿，我一块走到头了。我现在急忙跳了下去，落到了地上。心中顿时平静了下来。我在地上看看池塘里的水，一阵暖风吹来，把我心中刚才的恐惧感顿时没有了。想：我竟然成功了，只要有勇气，就一定会成功呢。我高兴极了，说：走，我们去买冰棍。于是，我和我的好朋友高兴的跑开了。

这件事让我认识了：只要有信心，勇气，就能战胜一切恐惧。任何事情都能办成。也让我感到了：人的生活中处处都能学到东西。

I am ten years old, though I am not mature, I am on the way of growing up. Two years ago, I was very shy, I even couldn’t talk to the strangers.

But now I have made progress, I can talk to the strangers and make friends with them. I am not the shy girl any more.

I have grown up gradually, in the future, I will become more and more better.

我现在十岁了，虽然我还不够成熟，但是我还在成长的路上。两年前，我很害羞，甚至不能和陌生人聊天。

但是现在我已经进步了，我可以和陌生人聊天，和他们做朋友。我再也不是那个害羞的女孩子了。

我已经慢慢长大了，在将来，我会变得越来越好。

一个风和日丽的晴天，我跑去玩，忽然瞧见一大队蚂蚁便想观察它们。

首先看见的是位蚂蚁大军的“指挥官”，它走来走去，一会儿让这只蚂蚁用点力、一会儿帮帮小蚂蚁、一会儿又夸夸几个大力士，一副CEO的模样。在旁边，一只接一只的蚂蚁搬运工辛勤劳作。我的好奇心越来越强烈了。我随手捡到一颗石子，看准时机用力砸向蚂蚁“指挥官”的腹部，只见它的腹部裂开了一道口子，接着我将它小心放入一个小沙坑，又在周围圈上一层密密的石头，蹲旁边开始瞧着。慢慢，它拖着负伤的身体爬上石头，我堵上一块石头，它就爬上一块石头，最后蚂蚁“指挥官”以自己柔弱带伤的身体艰难爬出了我布下的“石头阵”。我对它心生敬意，想不到小小的一只蚂蚁竟然有如此强大的毅力，它努力向前一点一点走向蚁巢，可离蚁巢不到一两步之遥时，它倒下了。我为它感到婉惜，但仔细一想，这只蚂蚁“指挥官”在活着的时候争取了，所以它的一生是精彩的。我也要学习它的珍惜有生之年。

还要像《生命生命》这课课文里说的“虽然生命是短暂的，但是我们可以让有限的生命体现出无限的价值。”于是我要下定决心要让生命更加的精彩。

When I turn on the TV, I have heard the kitchen came the voice of nagging presence: "alas, the child is watching TV, you know every day watching TV, how big is not sensible, graduation will be over in a month..." Whenever at this time. My heart is pulled tightly, sick of it.

After school, I have no empty to play outside, like a happy bird was put into the cage. What I yearn for the nature, longing for a breath of fresh air outside! But mom is like a ruthless big lock tightly locked me, let me to breathe. I cant sing aloud, cant fly in the sky.

During the holiday, the students can be happy, free. They can go to the movies with my parents, to go to travel, also can go to an amusement park with elder brother elder sister... But I was learning to breath.

Trouble has been bothering me, I really want to tell all parents: our wings is still very young, dont be too much. Put pressure on us, the pressure become our growing annoyance is bad for our health, is disappointment may harvest more in the future......

每当我打开电视，就听见厨房里传来唠叨不休的声音：“唉，这孩子又看电视，每天就知道看电视，都怎么大了还不懂事，再过一个月就毕业了……”每当这时。我的心就揪得紧紧的，烦透了。

上学以后，我没有空到外边去玩，就像一只快乐的小鸟被关进鸟笼里。我多么渴望大自然，渴望呼吸一下外面的新鲜空气啊!可妈妈就像一把无情的大锁紧紧地把我锁住了，让我透不过气来。我不敢高声唱歌，不能在天空中自由飞翔。

每逢放假，同学们可开心，可自由啦。他们可以跟父母去看电影，去游山玩水，也可以跟哥哥姐姐去逛游乐园……可我却被学习压得喘不过气来。

烦恼一直困扰着我，我真想告诉所有父母：我们的翅膀还很稚嫩，不要过多地。给我们施加压力，这样的压力成为我们成长中的烦恼对我们的身体是不利的，也许将来收获的更多是是失望啊……

Last week, our teacher gave us a task. We needed to interview some people

and collect different opinions. At first, I felt it a difficult task, because I

was such a shy person that I dared not to talk to strangers. In order to finish

the task, I cooperated with my classmates. They helped me to ask people for a

second, then I started to talk with them in a comfortable way. I felt much eased

soon and no longer felt shy. Now I get over my fear and become stronger. This is

the good sign of growing up. I am so thankful to my classmates. Without their

help, I wont go that far.

人生之路，就是一条成长之路，而成长就需要一个必要因素，那就是——勇气，学骑自行车这件事就使我明白了勇气是每个人必须要拥有的。

每当看到玩伴们骑着自行车的时候，总是有种说不出的自由，好像想去哪就去哪。那天，我拿着存了许久的零花钱就去商场买了一台全新的自行车，在我回来的路上，就开始来骑车。

一开始，我如同只有一只脚的猫，还没坐稳就摔倒了，我身上沾满了灰尘，然后我便马上站起来，拍了拍身上的灰尘，又骑上车，一只脚踩在地上，一只脚踩上踏板，用手来擦一下身上的汗，然后扶着手握把，用那只脚猛地踩了下脚踏板，另一只脚滑了一下地面，车子就冲出了，可惜没走几米就又因为车不平衡而再次摔倒。我的膝盖马上就传来一丝丝痛感，我便有些灰心，有些不愉快，有些愤怒地再次骑上车，双脚再次和以前一样一只脚踩地，一只脚踩脚踏板，又冲出去，双脚刚刚都踩上脚踏板，开始加速时，又因速度有些快而慌张起来，马上又摁了下刹车，速度又因太慢无法维持平衡摔了一跤。

我心想：这骑自行车也太难了吧，我都不想骑了，但马上又想：那不学不是又半途而废了，最后决定，鼓起勇气，再试一把。没想到这次骑起来的时候竟变轻盈了，不再那么笨手笨脚，在一个转弯口，我又再次摔了一跤，但我仍然没有畏缩，而是又站好，骑起来，第二个转弯口，我只是轻轻地一转，就转过去了，就这样，我欢快的笑起来，飞速地穿过旁边的行人，回到我家的小院，我心里因为没有放弃，而是鼓起勇气再赌了一把，就这样学会了骑自行车，以后就能和同伴们骑自行车玩了！

成长需要勇气，一点儿也没错，因为它可以战胜一切困难，把一切不可能皆化成有可能，所以，每个人心中有勇气，就能战胜很多东西。