以勇气为话题的英语作文（汇总20篇）

我的习惯(My Habbits)

I have some habbits, some are good, but some are bad.

I like reading very much. From reading science books, I get a lot of knowledge. From reading novels, I lose myself in the stories. I like doing sports, too. It helps me keep healthy. Also I never put todays work till tomorrow. They are all my good habbits. They help me a lot in my daily life.

However, I also have some bad habbits. For example, sometimes I do my homework slowly, and stay up till very late. During meals I prefer meat to vegetables. And sometimes I play computer games too long without having a reat. They are all harmful to my health.

From now on Ill try to keep my good habbits, and give up the bad ones. Then Ill live better.

勇气，是穿过山崖的那份坚定；勇气，是消防员只身闯入火海救人的本能；勇气，是贵在挑战自我的信念与坚持。

树叶映射着午后的阳光，闪闪烁烁的发着光。温暖的天气让秋游的我感到舒适享受。同学们用过了午餐，都集中到了沙地乐园里去玩，看到那里的娱乐设施，我与伙伴们不由得跃跃欲试。

怀着兴奋的心情走近了看，这里有一个类似于没有扶手与任何保护设施的吊桥。我喜欢玩刺激的东西，便放下包，迫不及待的爬上去。爬了几步，我才发现这吊桥走起来没那么容易，上面的板子只靠中间的一根柱子维持着平衡。我颤颤巍巍的爬上坡，站在吊桥上。下面有些人就像看好戏一般眯起眼睛盯着我，似乎等着我出丑。我不禁有些紧张，我慢慢蹲下来，小心翼翼的向前挪了两步。刹那间吊桥因我的移动摇晃起来，稍有不慎就会一头栽下去。

午后的阳光变得更加强烈，暴晒在烈日之下的我额头上不停地沁出汗珠。我开始畏惧，不想重蹈覆辙，不敢再走一步。衣服已经被汗水浸湿了。这下子可进退两难了，我心道。吊桥与我就这样僵持不下，我甚至有了想要放弃的念头。“站起来快点走过去，不然你会掉下来的！”下面似乎是一个很有经验的男生对我喊道。“不，我不行的……恐怕这样才会摔得更惨吧！”我喃喃道，仍旧原地不动。“快点！我刚才就是这样下来的，没事的。”我的内心撕扯着挣扎着，又畏惧着又不想被看笑话。怎么这么没用！我想着，难道我连这吊桥也过不去？不，我不能原路返回，我不要就此轻言放弃！一股燃烧着勇气的火在我心中生起。我颤抖着抬起双臂，缓缓地站了起来。我一定可以走过去！我说道，鼓起勇气，看着前方，深呼吸了一口，猛地向前快步走去，尽管只有几秒钟，但每一秒我都能感受得到我的脚在颤抖，那颗冉冉升起的勇敢的心让我走到了终点！拍着胸口走下了吊桥，才发现原来勇气就是支撑我走到最后的信念！

慢慢人生路，困难是人们最想避免却又是最无法避免的。以后我一定会遇到更多的吊桥与荆棘，但只要有那颗勇敢的心，保持着那份坚定不移的勇气，就一定能走向自己的辉煌！

生活就像一个七色板，有欢快的红色，温暖的黄色，恬静的绿色，忧郁的蓝色……人生就像一张白纸，小小的我鼓足勇气，会体会每一种颜色，认真的用它们描绘我的未来。

那是我中班第一次睡觉的夜晚。那皎洁的月光撒在我的床上，四周一片寂静，房间里的空气似乎凝固起来，我翻来覆去睡不着。突然，窗外刮起了一阵风，使我全身鸡皮疙瘩都站了起来。在我看向窗户的一瞬间，有一个白色的影子从窗外迅速地飞了过去，瞬间，我上下两排的牙齿开始激烈地打架。我心想：会不会是鬼呀？如果是鬼，为什么要在我房间的窗户外游荡呢？我正想着，床头上的娃娃好像变得有魔力似的，一下子就掉在我头上，突然我大叫起来：“啊！我房间里有一只大蜘蛛啊！”我赶紧下床，跑出房间，跑出那个有鬼的地方。我跑去妈妈的房间，想叫醒妈妈，可妈妈已经睡着了，睡得很沉，怎么也叫不醒。再看看爸爸，那呼噜声响彻云霄就更不用说了。

这时，我的心里矛盾起来了，心中好像有一位天使和恶魔在争论。天使说：“去吧，钰洁，回房间睡觉吧，没什么好怕的！”我听了有点心动，用脚迈出了第一步。恶魔见状，连忙说：“别去，别去，钰洁，那房间里有鬼，会把你吓坏的！”我一听，不禁又收回了那第一步。天使见了，又说：“去吧！”“别去！”“去吧！”“别去！”“去……”我的心里很杂乱，用两只手抓住了天使和恶魔，他们马上消失了。这时，我心里想起了父母对我的教导：你要记住，做什么都需要勇气，只有拥有勇气，你才会成功。我一想：没错，董钰洁，没什么好怕的，去房间吧。我平静地走进房间，打开灯，这才知道那“大蜘蛛”原来是我的娃娃；打开窗一看，原来那“鬼”是塑料袋呀。我静静地躺在床上，关上灯，准备睡觉。闭上眼睛的一瞬间，一阵“啦啦啦”的巨大的响声传进我的耳帘。但我不去想，只闭着双眼睡觉。等我再次睁开时，已经是明媚的早晨了。我心想：只要有一点勇气，就会成功呀。

这是一次经历，我知道我自己需要什么来陪伴我了。那就是——勇气。勇气陪伴着我，就是自己的一片天陪伴着我。

导语：只要我们敢梦想，并不被自己所阻，一切都有可能——梦想无止境。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

1. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

你可能不能控制所有发生在你身上的事，但是你可以决定不被它们所累。

2. Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

每件事都会变，问题在于前进还是后退。

3. Be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

做人生的主角，而不是受害者。

4. We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem—even to you—I dont care: You have to let that out.

我们一生中的大部分时间都在缩小壮志雄心，因为这个世界告诉我们别想的太大。梦想表现了灵魂告诉你的事，所以即使你的梦想对你自己来说也是天方夜谭，也没有关系：你必须释放自己的梦想。

5. As long as we dare to dream and dont get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible--theres truly no end to where our dreams can take us.

只要我们敢梦想，并不被自己所阻，一切都有可能——梦想无止境。

6. You have to speak your dream out loud.

你要大声说出自己的梦想。正能量

7. Its not about how to achieve your dreams. Its about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the dreams will come to you.

如何实现梦想并不是关键，关键在于如何生活。如果你将自己的生活带入正确方向，梦想终会实现。

8. If you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

如果你听不见内心真实的声音，你一生的时间都会花在别人要求你做的事情上。

9. When youre always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

当你总是想依循旧例时，你就失去了自己的独特之处，而独特就是成就你伟大的基础。

10. Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently.

勇气是所有品质中最重要的。因为没有勇气，你就无法去保持其他的品质了。

这是很久以前的一节音乐课上的事，即使过去很久了，但我还没有忘记那音乐节课上的事。

我五音不全，唱歌不好听，音乐课对于我来说就是一种煎熬，在那节音乐课上，老师教我们唱一首新歌，老师教了几遍之后，让我们自由唱几分钟。老师要找同学尝试唱一下这首歌，我很害怕老师会找到我，老师先前找的那几位同学唱得很好听，没想到老师接下来叫了我的名字，我起先还不敢唱，接着老师让同学们给我鼓掌，听到掌声我心里也有了底气，伴随着音乐唱了起来，等到我唱完之后，又响起了掌声，从那一节课之后，我就喜欢上了音乐，每当老师教新歌的时候，我都会好好的唱。

从那一节课之后，我不仅喜欢上了音乐，还明白了一个道理，做什么事都要有勇气。

我想以后再有这样的事情，我一定会有勇气和信心能够把它做好。

勇气是什么？是你刚搬到一个新的地方，主动结交新的朋友？是在考试没考好时，主动把卷子拿给妈妈看？是在雨天摔跤时自己爬起来？

天黑了，天空中只能看见闪闪发光的星星和一轮明月，又到了我的阅读时间，我随手拿出了一本侦探小说《零点谋杀案》，津津有味地看起来。到了该睡觉的时候了，我依依不舍地放下书，妈妈轻轻地关上门走了。我闭上了眼睛，可脑海里却闪出一幅幅画面：一把血淋淋的刀，一个满身是血的人……顿时，我开始害怕了，双手抓紧了被子，牙齿咬破了嘴唇，恰好这时，耳边传来一阵阵风“呼呼”的声音，故事中鬼哭狼嚎的景象在我脑子里飘过，我用被子盖住了自己的头，强迫自己不要胡思乱想。可我一闭上眼睛就会想起这个，此时我想要打开灯，可又不敢起床，我突然想起那些杀人凶手，最害怕全副武装的特警了，我可以画一些特警的图片，把凶手吓跑呀，这样我就不用害怕了！我鼓起勇气，掀开被子，轻轻地穿好鞋子，一步步向墙壁上的开关挪去。还差一步就要到了，加油！我自己给自己鼓气，在我打开灯的那一瞬间，房间刷的就变亮了，我赶紧画好了图片就把它贴在墙上，做完这些我又爬上床了。

我顿时流泻下了一时的感受——克服困难的勇气必不可少，没有自己做不到的，只看自己有没有勇气去做！

学做好人好事

今年是学习雷锋五十周年纪念日，雷锋同志说过：“我要把有限的生命，投入到无限的为人民服务之中去。”

请写一篇意思连贯，符合逻辑，不少于80字的作文。

在作文中，简单表述你对雷锋的崇敬之情，为什么向雷锋叔叔学习以及你在日常生活中是如何帮助他人的。

★ 范文

Leifeng was known as a pattern that offered help to others selflessly. He

devoted all this life into his beloved career as well. I, myself, was totally

shocked by his character.

Such is human nature; people trace the good, water flows to low. Everyone

should copy his sprit as our daily life goes instead of uttering a meaningless

slogan “learn from Leifeng, our decent idol”, so that we could definitely see a

lot more smiling faces rather than conflict.

To help others is not a hard thing, however, what you need is to consist

doing it. Take myself as an example. I am the representative of Math, to collect

homework is my daily task, however, I would turn them to the right page for

shorten the time for teachers when correcting them.

I strongly propose that we shall see a better world if each of us treat

Leifeng as our model and copy his spirit.

After entering college, we found, to our surprise, that differences between high school life and college life are great. In high school, we always depended on our parents and teachers to solve all kinds of difficult problems. At college, however, we have to rely exclusively on ourselves. Whats more, we have to learn how to get along with our classmates and roommates.

Four years at college is an important yet very short period of time in our life. So it is always expected that we adapt to this life as quickly as possible. But it is a pity that not everyone can do so immediately. Here are some suggestions.

First, get familiar with the main buildings on the campus. Spend one or two hours by yourself or with your classmates to go around the campus so that you can know the location of such important places as the library, the dining room, the post office, the clinic and classrooms. Next, try to be independent. Learn to do such things as making sound decisions on how to spend your time, how to spend your money etc, and washing clothes on your own. Furthermore, form good study habits. Talk with your classmates and learn from their good habits. Finally, try to take part in all kinds of activities to get out of your solitude and get on well with your classmates.

导语：相信大家都有在网上购物过，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Shopping online is quite popular in our daily life now. It is a new way of shopping. Many things are offered and wait for your choosing. Convenience is the most important advantage. You can buy anything as you like. You don’t have to queue with other shoppers. Meanwhile, it is often open for 24 hours a day.

However, there are many disadvantages about shopping online. You can’t actually see the real products. So you may be cheated easily. Also, many people will miss the best opportunity to get along well with their friends and share the joy of shopping.

In conclusion, we should make proper use of the internet shopping.

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网上购物在我们的日常生活中很受欢迎。这是一种新的购物方式。很多东西都提供了，等待你的选择。方便是最重要的优点。你可以随意买任何东西。你不必和其他购物者排队。同时，它通常每天开放24小时。

然而，网上购物有许多缺点。你真的看不到真正的产品。所以你可能很容易受骗。同时，许多人会错过与朋友相处的好机会，分享购物的乐趣。

总之，我们应该好好利用网络购物。

Topic one：Environment Protection(环境保护)

Water Pollution

With the development of industry, water pollution is becoming more serious now. The polluted water not only kills fish, it is also harmful to our health. Many people get sick because they drink the polluted water. In some rivers the water is so dirty that they can even kill plants.

We should fight against the pollution. We should stop using harmful things. I wish it is not a dream that in the near future we can have clean rivers again.

Environment Protection

Nowadays, peoples life has changed a lot with the development of modern technology and economy, which has put lots of negative effects on the environment.

Why this? Because, firstly, some factories are pouring wastes into rivers, lakes, seas and so forth; secondly, because of human activities, a great number of plants and animals are losing their lives; thirdly, using modern machines and chemicals is bad for the environment. Besides these, there are a lot of human activities which have done or are doing harm to our surroundings.

For this, I think, first, our government should make drastic measures to regulate human activities; second, we human beings should take pains-taking work to stop ourselves destroying the environment and try our best to protect our living space more.

Forest Pretention保护森林

Our country has a large area of forest. However, not until recently did the government begin to realize the importance of protecting the forest. As we may know from various sources, the government recently adopted a policy called "restore the farmland to the forest"(退耕还林).This has brought much hope to the forest of our country as well as the sustainable development of our country.

Pollution: a Social Problem

When we read newspapers, we often come across the word pollution. This word was not familiar to the people some decades ago. But now, it is a serious threat to usbecause. it means the poisoning of the air, seas, rivers and lands, which would do harm to our health.

There are many factories that bring pollution to us. We can not have fresh air in the morning. This is mainly because of the poisonous smoke coming from factories, especially chemical ones. In rivers, seas and oceans, there are industrial wastes. Some factories just throw their wastes into seas or let them flow into rivers. When people drink the water from such rivers, they get poisoned. Besides, there is rubbish from ships and when sometimes an accident occurs in an ocean, oil flows out from tankers.

On land, the accumulation of rubbish in the streets may dirty the city and ruin our health. This is mainly due to the improper disposal of rubbish by people.

If we do mot fight against pollution, surely one day all of us will be killed. Some people like to put the blame on the industrial revolutions. On the contrary, the pollution problem will be solved only with the help of modem science and technology.

Everybody likes smiling．But why do we smile？Smiling makes us attractive．We are drawn to people who smile．Smiling changes our mood，as it can trick the body into feeling better．Smiling is infectious．When someone is smiling they lighten up the room，change the moods of others，and make them happier．Smiling relieves stress．It helps to prevent us from looking tired.

Smiling makes us look healthier．It can bring us energy and pleasure．Smiling makes us become successful．Smiling people appear more confident，and are more likely to be approached．Smiling helps us stay positive．When we smile our body is sending the rest of us a message that “Life is good！”

So just try smiling our way through the day．Stay away from depression，stress and worry by smiling．Smile when you meet others．Smile in time of difficulty．Smile when you feel sad．Smile wherever you are and whenever you can．

导语：快餐的发展很快，因为它是经济，方便，有各种各样的食物，满足不同口味。它将在未来变得越来越流行。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Fast food is becoming more and more popular in China,especially among children and teenagers.Today,nothing is more representative of the fast pace of modern society than fast food.There are several reasons for its popularity.First,it is quick and convenient.Go into a fast food restaurant,and your food will be ready in a minute.You can satisfy your hunger instantly.Precious time wont be wasted in waiting-in-line to order or waiting at your table for your food to arrive.Second,its popularity is also attributed to the clean food,the excellent service and the comfortable environment of the fast food restaurant.

However,I think that fast food isnt healthy enough because it does not compose a balanced diet and is low in nutrition.Doctors suggest that people should avoid eating too much fast food.Although home cooking is time-consuming and following washing-u p tiresome,it offers healthy and delicious meals your body likes and needs.Fast food I s only a good choice when you are in a hurry and we should turn to it only once in awhile.

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快餐在中国变得越来越流行，尤其是儿童和青少年。今天，没有什么更多的比快餐快节奏的现代社会的代表，它的流行有几个原因。首先，它是快速和方便。走进快餐店，和你的食物将在一分钟准备好。你可以立刻满足饥饿。宝贵的时间不会在网上订购或在您的表为您的食物到达等待浪费。其次，它的知名度也归因于清洁食品，优良的服务和舒适的环境的快餐店。

不过，我认为快餐是不健康的足够的因为它不构成一个平衡的饮食和低营养。医生建议人们应该避免吃太多的快餐。虽然家里烹饪费时以下洗眉p讨厌，它提供了健康和美味的餐你的身体喜欢和需要。快餐i一个很好的选择只有当你在赶时间，我们要把它在一段时间只有一次。

两百多年前，当法国队伍站在巍峨的阿尔比斯山下，望着漫天风雪瑟瑟发抖时，拿破仑坚定地说出了这句流传百世的豪语。后世的画家将当时的他描绘成了一个身跨白马，身着战袍的领袖。在画中，马儿扬起前蹄向高山嘶鸣，奋然前行，英雄驾于马上，驰骋着勇气，右手指向天顶，指挥者大军前行，又仿佛是在向天空宣战。

几百年过去了，当人们瞻仰英雄时，只感慨拿破仑的传奇人生和其创下的丰功伟绩，但又有多少人知道面对百万将士的抱怨和反对，他是以怎样的信心和勇气去创造一个所谓的奇迹?

如果当年拿破仑选择将士们的决定，放弃翻越阿尔卑斯山这项不可能完成的任务，今天又是什么样?多少人面对选择时，往往都听从前任的劝告，认为这是先代的经验，但却从未想过，这些经验也是无数次实践后才得出的结论。那么，你为什么不愿意去试一下?

当你失败时，你会比别人收获更多的疼痛，所以你比别人更加懂得吸取教训;当你成功时，无数人会以你为榜样，打破陈旧，走向新的领域。所以，面对难以预料的前路，众人的叹息不能说明前方多远，那只是失败者和懦者的叹息，成功的人才不会陪着他们望洋兴叹，那些翻过高山、越过深海的人仅仅是多了点勇气。

当法国队伍翻过高山，站在山的另一端时，人们把拿破仑视如神人。崎岖的山路、陡峭的斜壁，一不小心就是万丈深渊在迎接自己，加上冬天的北风和暴雪，这座山成了禁区，翻过它只是自寻死路。但事实胜过一切解释，当拿破仑走过一生的回忆后，这也许只是他生命中的一件小事而已。在别人眼里仿佛做不到的事，兴许是他们压根就没做过。

百年后的今天，科技发达，许许多多的往日艰险也随时间变得不值一提，但人性却从未变过。当我们再次面临麻烦，仍有着走为上策的必杀技。我们从未面对过困难，只是从老人口中听说过困难是一个什么样的怪物，它总守在成功的前面，像一座大山，威势难挡。于是，有人想出了绕路的办法，一遇上困难就绕路，花去了十几甚至几十倍的时间却仍未找到通路。

那我们就一辈子在绕路吗?

不，有更简单的方法，就是把自己变成勇者，任何胆小鬼面前的鬼怪都会成为勇气的试金石，因为对于常人而言，那是高不可攀的山，而对勇者来说，那只是块石头。

We are always trying to find the way to success, which stands for power,

pride and glory. There have been strings of stories of success I was told since

I was a child. From then on, I have been fascinated with being successful.

Whatsuccess? Different people have different opinions towards this

question. To start with, some people, such as accountants, workers and so on,

are longing for being rich, which allows them buy what they want, and enjoy

luxury. They treat it as success. Furthermore, some contestants, such as boxers,

are always trying their best to defeat their rivals for success. And once they

win, they confirm that they are stronger than others. The last but not the

least, there are some other people who enjoy helping others. As a good saying

goes, the roses in her hand, the flavor in mine. With helping others, we can

also feel satisfactory.

As far as I am concerned, life is short, and we must achieve something

during our life. So I regard striving and working hard important. When comes to

we reap what we sow, it’s the time of success.

Strong Will

Since I go to high school, I live in the school and stay away from my

parents.

I have three roommates. At the beginning, we have trouble in staying in the

same room, but now we have got used to it. One of my roommates impresses me so

much. Since she came to our room, she has kept the habit of reading novels when

we go to bed. She told me that when she lived with her parents, she dared not to

read because her mother would blame her for sleeping late. Now she is very happy

that she is out of control, it seems that she is free. But I feel sorry for her,

because she is short-sighted now. What’s more, she is lagging behind other

students in the study. Staying away from her parents, she is not strong enough

to behave herself.

We should have the strong will and behave ourselves.

坚强的意志

自从我上了高中，我就住在学校，远离父母。

我有3个室友，刚开始，我们不习惯同处一室，但是如今，我们已经习惯了。有一个室友让我印象很深刻，自从她住进我们的房间，她就在我们睡觉的时候保持看小说的习惯。她告诉我们在她和父母住在一起的时候，她不敢看小说，因为她妈妈会责怪她那么晚睡觉。如今她很高兴再也不受控制了，似乎她得到了自由。但是我为她感到遗憾，因为她现在已经近视，而且，在学习方面也落后于其他同学。离开了父母，她不够强大，无法自律。

我们应该有坚强的意志，并且自律。

Welcome to Hangzhou. I am Li Yue, president of the Student Union in my school. Id like to briefly introduce the Hangzhou Public Bicycle Service to you. Our city insists to protect the environment, so we began to use the Public Bicycle Service to reduce the traffic stress in 2008. There were 65 thousand bicycles for people to use in daily life. In general, more than 8 million people have to use them every year.

Some people think they are very useful and believe they will make our society more beautiful. Others think they are not convenient enough. As far as I can see, reading a bicycle is so interesting. We can take exercise with it. Meanwhile, Our environment get protected. Lets go into action!

Nowadays, more and more college students are taking part in work-study programs in their spare time. Many of them choose to be a tutor or doing a part-time job in school dining room or library. Also some others do a part-time delivering man or promotion specialist or other jobs alike.

There are mainly three different reasons for college students to take work-study program. First, to earn money is the main aim of many students, they want to relieve the burden on their family by doing a part-time job. Second, some students take work-study programs as a channel by which know the society and improve their practical skills. Third, still other students doing part-time job just for fun or kill time.

From my point of view, it goes without saying that college students can benefit a lot from work-study programs. However, those students who get part-time jobs should keep it in mind that study is prior to anything else. Besides, they should spend their income from part-time job reasonably.

生活中我们需要成功的喜悦，需要挫折痛苦，需要欢声笑语，更需要奔向前方的勇气．勇气就是敢想敢做，毫不畏惧得气势．生活中需要的勇气有很多很多，在种.种条件下都可以证明一具个人是拥有勇气还是懦弱．成功者拥有什么？智慧？才华？不，是他们百折不挠的勇气．

一个人如果没有了勇气，就会丧失战斗力，也就没有了精神支柱，没有了一个人原有自信．有一句话是这样说的：我们都需要勇气，来面对流言蜚语．是啊！人人都需要勇气来面对一切成功与失败，需要它来面对一切是与非，需要它来面对一切的一切．

古往今来，有多少事不是有勇气才去做的？

当一个人做出自己的选择时，是什么让他这样做？是勇气，是自信．

人类是世界是最高等的动物，像海伦凯勒，居里夫人，张海迪，他们为什么能够功成名就？是因为他们有战胜困难的勇气，促使他们挑战生活，挑战未来．

每一件事当你决定要做时，那就已经成功了一半，因为你有勇气去面对它．在困难面前拿出勇气吧，把你的勇气，你的胆识和信心拿出来吧！拥有了这些，你就已经站在比别人远的起跑线上了．

生活中我们需要成功的喜悦，需要挫折痛苦，需要欢声笑语，更需要奔向前方的勇气．勇气就是敢想敢做，毫不畏惧得气势．生活中需要的勇气有很多很多，在种.种条件下都可以证明一具个人是拥有勇气还是懦弱．成功者拥有什么？智慧？才华？不，是他们百折不挠的勇气．

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。

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How long has it been since you had the feeling of being moved ? Do you feel grateful when you taste the delicious food your mother prepares for you ? On Teacher’s Day, do you say “Thank you teachers” from the bottom of your heart, or just do it as others do ?

In the West, there is Thanksgiving Day. People invented this festival to be grateful for what they gained, because no one could be happy or successful without the help from others. Though our country don’t have Thanksgiving Day, we should be grateful hourly.

If the grateful full of your heart ,you will be happy everyday. Life’s happiness is to be convinced we are loved. A telephone from parents, a criticism from teacher, a exhortation from friend, a competition from opponent and so on. All this are the foundation of mature for us.

We must learn to be grateful, otherwise , we will be apathetic, can’t notice the love from others. Only have the heart of be grateful, we can understand how to love others and how to repay our society.

小时候，常常会害怕，怕黑，怕痛，怕没有朋友，怕考不好，怕被老师骂……每当这时候，都会情不自禁地流下眼泪，也常常会被妈妈说没用。

那次去拔牙，那一个个白大褂，那一个个闪的耀眼大小不一的老虎钳，虽然白大褂都是面带笑容，但我还是心跳不止。拔牙的那一瞬间，我攥紧了拳头，手心都沁出了汗，我鼓起勇气坚持。终于，我没有流下眼泪。

长大了，担心的事终于来临了，我真的没有考好。拿到试卷的一刹那我甚至有些怀疑自己的能力，卷子上的红叉叉，心里别提多难受了。老师讲评试卷是我却发现老师讲错了一个地方，我没有犹豫，勇敢地举起了手。

“老师，您这里讲错了！”

“是吗？这些题目老师都是仔细反复斟酌的，怎么会错呢？想清楚了再说，坐下！”老师严肃地瞥了我一眼，同学们先愣了一下，哄堂大笑起来，那笑声，简直像针一样一针针扎在我心上，听起来是那么刺耳。老师在下课后把我叫到了办公室，平缓地说：“看问题要仔细啊！”之后又讲了一堆道理，可是我什么也听不进去，我强忍着泪水，尽管它已噙满眼眶。

回到家，向父母说起了这件事，爸爸妈妈却是和老师一样的想法，让我很不解。走进自己的房间，关上了房门。我努力让自己静下来，我还是默默地看着那道题。怎么样想我觉得我都是对的，可是想起上午，我有一点犹豫。就当这时，一只小小的蚂蚁爬上了我的书桌，我正准备按死它时，却发现它单薄的肩膀上驮着它身重2倍的食物，这是怎样的一种坚持啊！我觉得，我是应该再一次鼓起勇气试一试了！小小的蚂蚁可以，我照样也可以！

第二天，我像老师证明了我的想法，老师说：“你是对的。”我一点也不觉得意外，泪水夺眶而出，我没有去强忍它，我任它流淌，不仅淋湿了我的面颊，也淋湿了我年少的心，这不同凡常的尝试使我获得莫大的鼓舞。我相信，我获得的勇气与力量让我在成长路上不再彷徨！