一本教會你“做對”題的6級閱讀書 day2 struggle 慢速

[00:04]Struggle [00:06] [00:07]A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. [00:12]He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole at the end. [00:24] [00:26]Eventually, the butterfly stopped making progress. [00:32]It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. [00:42]The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. [00:56]The butterfly then emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. [01:06] [01:08]The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, [01:16]the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. [01:26] [01:28]Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. [01:42]It never was able to fly. [01:47] [01:48]What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that [01:54]the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening [02:03]were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings [02:12]so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. [02:19] [02:21]Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. [02:27]If nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. [02:36]We would not be as strong as what we could have been. [02:41]And we could never

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