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安德烈的祖母去世了。读小学的安德烈心里非常难过，因为祖母生前非常疼爱他。他每天在学校操场上一圈又一圈地跑，直到累倒在地，扑在草坪上痛哭。 哀痛的曰子断断续续持续了很久。爸爸妈妈也不知道如何安慰他。他们知道与其骗儿子说祖母睡着了，还不如说实话：祖母永远不会回来了?”什么是永远不会回来呢？”安德烈问道。 “时光不会倒流，昨天一旦过去，它就永远变成了昨天，你不能再回到昨天。爸爸以前也和你一样小，现在也不能回到像你这么小的童年了；有一天你会长大，你会像祖母一样老；有一天你度过了你所有的时间，就永远不能回来了。”爸爸说。 以后，每天放学回家，安德烈就在家里的庭院里面看着太阳慢慢地沉到地平线以下，这样他就知道一天真的过完了。尽管明天还会有新的太阳，但永远不再是今天的太阳. 时间过得飞快，在安德烈幼小的心里不只有着急，还有悲伤。有一天，他放学回家，看到太阳快落山了，就下决心说：“我要比太阳更快回家。”他狂奔回去，站在庭院前喘气时，看到太阳还露着半边脸，就高兴地跳跃起来，那一天他觉得自己跑贏了太阳以后他就时常做那样的游戏，有时和太阳赛跑，有时和风比快，有时一个暑假才能完成的作业，他十天就做完了。那时他三年级，常常把五年级的作业拿来做. 每次比赛贏了时间，安德烈就乐不可支。 在他成长的曰子里，和时间赛跑让他受益无穷。尽管他知道人永远跑不过时间，但人可以比自己原有的时间跑快一步；如果跑得快，有时可以快好几步。那几步看起来也许很小，但影响深远。 To Win Time Andre’s grandmother died. Andre who was in primary school was very sad because his grandma was very fond of him. He ran around and around the school playground every day till he was so tired that he fell on the ground and throw himself down the lawn to cry his eyes out. The mourning days lasted for a long time intermittently. Mom and dad didn't know how to comfort him. They knew that it was better to tell the truth rather than to cheat his son she fell asleep: Grandma would never come back. “What does it mean ‘never come back？” Andre asked. “All the things in the time never come back; once yesterday is gone, it will become yesterday forever, so you cannot go back to yesterday. Dad used to be like you, and now can，t go back to your so little boyhood; one day you，" grow up, and you will be old like the grandma; one day when you spend all your time, you can never come back,” his father said. After that, back home from school every day, Andre would be in the home garden watching the sun sink below the horizon slowly. He knew the day had gone. There would be a new sun, but it would never be today’s sun any more. Time flew. Anxiety and sorrow mixed in the Andre’s young heart. One day, he came home from school, saw the sun go down, made up his mind and said, "I will go home faster than the sun.” He ran back like mad. When he stood in the front courtyard and gasped', he saw the sun still exposing half of its face. He was excited to jump up. He felt he outran the sun that day. Later he would often do the game, sometimes race against the sun or the wind; sometimes the homework would take him one summer vacation, but he finished it only in ten days. He was in Grade Three that time, but he would often do the homework of Grade Five in advance. Every time he won time, Andre was overwhelmed with joy. In his growing days, he benefited from racing against time. Though he knew that people can't run faster than Time, they can be faster compared to their original time, if running fast, they sometimes can be faster several steps, which may seem small, but their effect is great. overwhelm 使难以承受 benefit 受益，得益 race 和······比速度 |
