你是天生的大英雄吗?_BEC初级作文

你是天生的大英雄吗?

All Mr. St. Bernard was thinking, he says, was 'maybe I can catch her,' says the 53-year-old bus driver for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 'The weight of the child, how hard she was going to hit me - none of that crossed my mind,' he says. 'I was just hoping, praying, 'God, please don't let me miss.''

圣伯纳德说，当时他心里只想着“也许我能接住她”。他说，“那个孩子有多重，她会对我造成多大力量的撞击——我脑中完全没想到这些事情。我只是希望并祈祷‘上帝，千万别让我失手了。’”

As he moved beneath the window, the girl slipped and plummeted into his outstretched arms with an estimated 600 pounds of force, nearly ripping his arm off. He has had surgery to repair the torn muscles, tendons and nerves and will need months of painful physical therapy. But in describing the incident, he focuses on the fact that the child escaped injury or death. 'Not a scratch was on that baby,' he says.

就在他冲到窗户下面的时候，那个女孩脚下一滑，接着就坠入了他张开的双臂中，当时的冲力估计达到600磅，几乎使他的胳膊折断。后来，他做了手术来修复拉伤的肌腱和神经，并且还要接受数个月痛苦的物理治疗。但是，在谈到这件事情时，他所关注的只是那个女孩并没有受伤或是丧命。他说，“那个孩子一点伤都没有。”

Heroic people also tend to have a strong sense of ethics and above-average coping skills - a belief in their ability to tackle challenges and beat the odds, research shows. On the battlefield in Afghanistan last January, Navy nurse James Gennari knew, when he saw an injured Marine arrive on a stretcher at his medical facility, that standard procedures wouldn't work. The Marine had a live rocket-propelled grenade embedded in his body, from his thigh through his buttocks. A surgeon told Lt. Cmdr. Gennari he didn't have to intervene; a bomb squad could remove the grenade.