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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 (误读成1802), and had a very long life.

During nearly all Miss Nightingale's life, England was ruled by the famous Queen Victoria.

At one time during her reign, about a hundred years ago, the English were fighting the Russians in a place called the Crimea.

Florence Nightingale became famous because of the work she did in this war.

南丁格尔

弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔出生于1820年（1802年），一生很长。

在南丁格尔小姐的一生中，英格兰几乎都是由著名的维多利亚女王统治的。

在她统治期间，大约一百年前，英国人在一个叫克里米亚的地方与俄国人作战。

佛罗伦萨·南丁格尔因为在这场战争中所做的工作而出名。

She became a nurse and she helped to train hundreds and hundreds of other women to be skillful and gentle nurses.

When Miss Nightingale was a little girl, she used to like playing with her dolls and pretending to nurse them.

She used to visit the poor people near her house and look after them when they were ill.

She wanted very much to be a nurse, but her father said, "Look at the women who do nursing nowadays! I don't want you to be like that!"

He had plenty of money and let Florence travel to many other countries. He hoped she would forget about wanting to be a nurse.

But Florence didn't forget. She wrote to some very important people and at last one of her friends, who was the Minister of War, allowed her to go and look after the wounded soldiers.

She picked the best nurses she could find and took them with her.

她成为一名护士，并帮助培训成百上千的其他妇女成为熟练和温柔的护士。

南丁格尔小姐还是个小女孩的时候，她常常喜欢玩她的洋娃娃，假装给它们喂奶。

她过去常去看望她家附近的穷人，在他们生病时照顾他们。

她很想当护士，但她父亲说：“看看现在做护理的妇女！我不想你变成那样！”

他有很多钱，让佛罗伦萨去了许多其他国家。他希望她不要再想当护士了。

但是弗洛伦斯没有忘记。她写信给一些非常重要的人，最后她的一个朋友，战争部长，允许她去照顾受伤的士兵。

她挑选了她能找到的最好的护士，并把他们带走了。

They found the hospital crowded and dirty.

There was not enough medicine. There were not enough bandages. There was not even enough food.

Miss Nightingale and her nurses had to work very hard indeed.

Every night she walked around the hospital with a small lamp, visiting the patients.

The soldiers were very pleased to see her. They knew that she was working very hard for them and they gave her the name of "The Lady of the Lamp."

She and her nurses saved hundreds of lives and she stayed at the hospital until the war was over.

She fell ill herself because she had worked too hard for a very long time.

When she came back to England, however, she started to train nurses in all hospitals.

Soon all the big hospitals in England had their own training schools for nurses.

Hospitals became clean and cheerful places and nurses were much more skillful.

Today, nurses all over the world remember "The Lady of the Lamp".

他们发现医院又挤又脏。

没有足够的药。绷带不够。甚至没有足够的食物。

南丁格尔小姐和她的护士们不得不非常努力地工作。

每天晚上，她拿着一盏小灯在医院里走来走去，看望病人。

士兵们见到她很高兴。他们知道她在为他们努力工作，于是给她起了“灯之女”的名字

她和她的护士拯救了数百人的生命，她一直呆在医院直到战争结束。

她自己生病了，因为她工作太辛苦了很长时间。

然而，当她回到英国后，她开始在所有医院培训护士。

很快，英国所有的大医院都有了自己的护士培训学校。

医院变得干净愉快，护士的技能也提高了。

今天，全世界的护士都记住了“灯的女士”。

阅读笔记

㈠人生的现实是，就算锦衣玉食，很多人仍然活得痛苦不堪、无所寄托。无论是精神上还是物质上，在那些最难支撑，日子挨到无法可挨的时刻，往往就是一句话、一首曲、一幅画或一本书，让你度过原本不可想象的关卡，把眼前的死路走出活局。

㈡薄雾开始渐渐散去，风卷起粼粼波光一路潮退。我确实还在南澳，我没有玩捉迷藏，我只是混迹于一群鬼鬼祟祟的小螃蟹群里，爬上礁石，钻进洞子，走走停停，摇摇摆摆，总之拒绝做一粒大同小异的好脾气的沙子。

而蓝天和大海也这样，也有着漏网之鱼的狡猾，从渔夫的网里这边来，那边去。

它们都被远近的白云所定义。

而光阴，只顾着自己的细腻，和从头到尾的失忆。

㈢曾经看过一个很有意思的概念——“符号性愤怒”，即是说一个人经常会没什么理由就愤怒，拿愤怒当名片、当符号，说明自己很重要。

这种“符号性愤怒”在有权有势者那里，最常见到。因为得到的东西越多，他的自我边界就越大，也越容易被激怒。但不少普通人，自我边界并不大，也容易一触即怒，这是因为他的边界过于刚硬，绷得太紧。

心绷得太紧，就容易愤怒。如果给自己一份松弛的柔软，对看不顺眼的事，予以理解与包容，做到“内敬”，那么你自然就能“外恭”，跟他人之间也就宽和了。

人的内心要有两种东西：坚强的意志和柔软的心灵，分别来自大脑和心灵。大脑层面是意志、理性和分析，是现实主义的认同；心灵层面则是柔软、美和爱，是理想主义的悲悯。如果光用脑子不用心灵，生命会由于过分务实而很可悲；只有心灵而没有脑子，生活会因为过于浪漫而很可笑。好的生活是大脑跟心灵并重、刚柔并济，形神兼备。

孔子又说：“恭则不侮。”保持柔软的弹性，对他人和世界，抱有一份悲悯，抱有一份深刻的理解和认同。修得一颗柔软心，愤怒也就不战而退了。