The Boy Who Dreamed of Stars夢見星星的男孩

There once was a boy who dreamed of going to the stars. From a very youngage， he was fascinated with the idea of space travel. Every night， he would go to hishouse’s balcony1 and count the stars that were in the night sky. Whenever he slept，he would dream of being with the stars. He would excitedly speak of his dream toother people and gush2 about what he would do once he achieved his dream to hisparents and friends. On some days， he would even go to the public library and spendhours reading about space. His parents and their friends would always laugh andjoke about“a child’s silly ambitions3”， even when he was right in front of them. Hewas young， then， and didn’t understand what they were talking about.

從前有一個(gè)男孩夢想著飛到星星上。從很小的時(shí)候起，他就對(duì)太空旅行的想法著迷。每天晚上，他都會(huì)去家里的陽臺(tái)數(shù)數(shù)夜空中的星星。每當(dāng)他睡覺的時(shí)候，他都會(huì)夢見自己和星星在一起。他會(huì)興奮地向其他人講述自己的夢想，并向父母和朋友滔滔不絕地講述一旦實(shí)現(xiàn)夢想他會(huì)做什么。有時(shí)，他甚至?xí)ス矆D書館，花幾個(gè)小時(shí)閱讀有關(guān)太空的書籍。他的父母和他們的朋友總是嘲笑說“孩子傻氣的野心”，甚至在他就在他們面前的時(shí)候。那時(shí)他還小，不明白他們?cè)谡f什么。

As he grew older， he started working hard and tried his best to get into agood university. He would often be found sitting at a corner reading about spacewhile others played happily on the field. He got bullied4 a lot because he lookednerdy5 and always kept to himself， and to others， and that was weird6. However，he ignored7 his bullies and continued on with his life. His bullies eventually lefthim alone when they realized he didn’t seem to care about them. He managed toget a scholarship8 to a university that focused9 on astronomy10 and science.

隨著年齡的增長，他開始努力學(xué)習(xí)，并盡最大努力考上一所好大學(xué)。當(dāng)其他人在球場上快樂地玩耍時(shí)，人們經(jīng)常發(fā)現(xiàn)他坐在角落里閱讀有關(guān)太空的書籍。他經(jīng)常被欺負(fù)，因?yàn)樗雌饋砗芟駮糇樱偸仟?dú)來獨(dú)往，這在別人看來很奇怪。然而，他無視了欺凌者，繼續(xù)他的生活。欺負(fù)他的人意識(shí)到他似乎并不在乎他們后，最終就不再管他了。他設(shè)法獲得了一所專注于天文學(xué)和科學(xué)的大學(xué)的獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金。

When he was 17 years old， however， an accident happened while he waswalking to the store， and he went blind. His friends told him to give up on hisdreams， because how could a blind person ever hope to go to space？ But still herefused to give up， and continued to study to become an astronaut. No matter howpeople laughed at and mocked him or put him down， he still got back up. Heworked harder than anyone else.

然而，當(dāng)他17 歲的時(shí)候，他在去商店的路上發(fā)生了一場事故，他成了盲人。他的朋友們勸他放棄夢想，因?yàn)橐粋€(gè)盲人怎么可能希望去太空呢？但他仍然不肯放棄，繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)成為一名宇航員。不管人們?cè)趺闯靶λ⒆I諷他，貶低他，他還是重新振作起來。他比任何人都更努力。

At 24 years old， he applied for a job towork as an astronaut. He went to severalinterviews and argued with the interviewerabout his blindness， until one day， when thedirector of the Space Agency came to him， andoffered him a place in their special astronautteam—“The Human Limits”. He was put witha deaf girl and an autistic11 boy. The three ofthem became fast friends within minutes ofmeeting each other. And then， they set off to explore one of Jupiter’s moons. Theycame back bearing12 good news about the mission13. And with that， each of themwas given a medal of honour and proved to the world that they realized theirdreams despite their disabilities. The boy’s family realized their mistakes， andapologized to him. And at last， the boy， along with his newfound friends， provedlimitations do not stop ambitions.

24 歲時(shí)，他申請(qǐng)了一份宇航員的工作。他參加了幾次面試，并與面試官就自己的失明問題進(jìn)行了爭論，直到有一天，航天局局長找到他，讓他加入他們的特殊宇航員團(tuán)隊(duì)——“人類的極限”。……