你是天生的大英雄吗?_BEC初级作文

你是天生的大英雄吗?

按常理来看，埃德里奇是不大可能会成为一位英雄的。她没有接受过救援训练，而且她身高5英尺8英寸，体重115磅，还没有她救下的那位女士重。她是一个单亲妈妈，独自抚养着两个十几岁的儿子。最令埃德里奇感到惊讶的是，自己居然还能跑得动。在救人那一天之前，她因为背部有伤行动不便已经有10年没跑过步了。

'All I could think about was the lady's face. She looked lost. She needed help, and she needed help right then,' says Ms. Eldridge, who received a medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, which honors civilians who risk their lives to save others, last June.

去年6月份，埃德里奇获得了卡内基英雄基金委员会(Carnegie Hero Fund Commission)颁发的用以表彰冒着生命危险救助他人的普通民众的奖章。埃德里奇说，“我当时所能想到的就是那位女士的脸。她看起来很茫然，她需要马上获得帮助。”

A tendency to frame events positively and expect good outcomes is another hallmark of heroes, says Jeremy Frimer, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Winnipeg. In a 2010 study, 25 Canadians who had won awards for risking their lives to save others were asked to tell stories about their lives. Heroes were more likely to 'take something that's bad and turn it into something that's good,' says Dr. Frimer, a co-author of the study with Lawrence Walker, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, and others. In an example from another study, Dr. Frimer says, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer described the disease as 're-energizing her creative side,' saying her return to creating art was 'a gift that came from the tragedy.''