音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:02.87]The Buzzard, the Bat and the Bumblebee美洲鹫、蝙蝠与大黄蜂
[00:07.35]If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top,
[00:13.81]in spite of his ability to fly,
[00:16.10] will be an absolute prisoner.
[00:18.94]The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet.
[00:25.62]Without space to run, as is his habit,
[00:28.57] he will not even attempt to fly,
[00:30.86] but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
[00:35.90]The ordinary bat that flies around at night,
[00:39.51]a remarkably nimble creature in the air,
[00:42.35]cannot take off from a level place.
[00:44.54] If it is placed on the floor or flat ground,
[00:48.25]all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt,
[00:52.63] painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air.
[00:59.96] Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
[01:03.02]A Bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies,
[01:08.38]unless it is taken out.
[01:10.57]It never sees the means of escape at the top,
[01:13.63] but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom.
[01:18.77] It will seek a way where none exists,
[01:21.40]until it completely destroys itself.
[01:24.13]In many ways,
[01:25.44]there are many people like the buzzard, the bat and the bumblebee.
[01:29.71] They struggle about with all their problems and frustrations,
[01:34.08]not realizing that the answer is right there “above” them.