找誰倚靠—我們都是有故事的人(慢速) 改變高度

[00:00]Change altitude [00:04]Rebecca had decided that her best chance of getting hired by a company doing geological survey work in the Alaskan wilderness was to earn a private license to fly twin-engine planes. [00:20]A few days later she began taking lessons from a wise old bush pilot, [00:27]highly respected throughout the region for his cool and collected ways of dealing with the worst possible situations. [00:37]After the mandatory ground schooling, at which Rebecca excelled, [00:43]and during her fourth lesson in the sky, [00:47]the flight instructor gave her what she thought was a special treat: [00:53]Taking his hands off the yoke, he turned the flight controls over to her. [00:59]There she was, just as she had dreamed, sitting tall in the copilot’s seat with the flight stick firmly in her hands. [01:10]Rebecca felt as though she was literally on “cloud” at least, [01:18]until a scant moment later when she found herself rudely awakened from her dream. [01:26]In the distance, through the windshield, right in the path of the plane, [01:31]and seeming to have appeared out of nowhere, a huge snow-capped mountain lay dead ahead. [01:39]Transfixed by its sheer mass, [01:42]Rebecca found herself as frozen at the stick as were the iced and craggy peaks stretched out before her. [01:51]She was headed straight for them! [01:54]All along the wise old instructor was watching her closely, studying her reactions. [02:03]In fact, he had turned the controls over to her for just this test now taking place. [02:11]He waited until the last moment he could, and was just about to take over again, [02:18]when Rebecca snapped out of her fear-induced trance. [02:23]“Sir,” said a voice so trembling and timid that it even scared her, [02:31]“Please take over the controls. [02:34]I’m afraid we are about to crash!” [02:38]His reply stunned her. [02:41]“No,” he spoke quietly, “I don’t think I will. After all, it’s your flight.” [02:50]“Then what should I do? Please, tell me what to do!” [02:57]Rebecca said with a struggling to control her voice. [03:01]She managed to look over at her instructor, [03:05]and was surprised to see virtually no worry at all upon his face. [03:12]His calm demeanor helped to steady her nerves. [03:16]She took a deep breath and relaxed her hands that had just about choked the life out of the control yoke. [03:25]The next moment he gave her a short three-word instruction, [03:30]and she knew everything would soon be all right. [03:35]He simply said, “Change your altitude.” [03:40]“Of course,” her own mind echoed back to his command, [03:45]and a split second later she pulled firmly back on the yoke; [03:51]the craft responded by rising, and mere moments later the icy peak passed beneath her and out of sight. [04:01]As Rebecca sat there, relieved by the results of her actions, [04:07]she was struck by two things at once: How could she have forgotten that the controls were in her hands, [04:17]and at least as important, why had she been unable to remember this on her own? [04:25]She could choose her own altitude.

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