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沙漠的气候非常特殊。白天，经过沙石的反射和热量的累积，火红的太阳能把人活活烤死;夜晚，旷野和荒寒在一无遮掩的情况下泛滥，又能把人冻僵。 尽管沙漠气候如此可怕，美国印第安人却能安适地生活在那里，因为他们的建筑有逢凶化吉的作用。 在沙漠里’印第安人的墙是经过特别设计的，它的厚度恰到好处——白天织热的艳阳晒不透向阳的墙壁，正将晒透时，夜晚就已经降临。于是，在外面酷寒难耐的夜里，嗮热的墙能慢慢散发出白天储存的热量，使室内变得温暖。 如果墙壁薄，白天室内就会变成烤箱，夜晚也不能散发足够的热量。如果墙壁厚白固然不至于炎热，夜晚却因为透不过热力，而变得寒冷。 这一切的奥妙就在于那不厚不薄的墙。 无论是否住在沙漠，我们每个人都要有这么一堵墙一把得意时别人的赞美留给失意用；把敌人射来的箭接下，作为我们兵器短缺时的武器；把别人攻讦的言语化为有用的建议；把只能造成罪恶多余钱财留给日后可能贫困，就像印第安灼人的阳光留给寒冷的夜晚。 The Wall of Indians The climate in the desert is very special. In the daytime, after the gravel’s reflection and the accumulation of heat, the fiery red sun can bake people to death; at night, the wilderness and desolation spreading with nothing covered can freeze people to death. Although the desert climate is so terrible, American Indians still can live in there quite comfortably because their buildings have the function of turning ill luck to good. In the desert, the wall of Indians is specially designed. Its thickness is just right—the heat of the sun cannot pass through the wall during the day, and when ifs time for passing, the night has fallen. So in the night, while it is bitter cold in the outside, that hot wall slowly gives out the heat gained in the daytime, making the room warm. If the wall is thin, the room will become an oven in the daytime, and even at night, it will not send out enough heat. But if the wall is thick, though not hot in the daytime, it will become cold at night because the heat can’t pass throught it. All the secret lies in the wall neither thick nor thin. Whether or not living in the desert, each of us has such a wall—reserve people’s praise for the frustrated time, get the arrows shot from the enemy as our weapon at the shortage of arms, turn the attacking words from others into useful suggestions, leave the surplus money that can only cause crime to the possible poverty in future, just as the Indians leave the scorching sunlight to the cold night. reflection 反射 accumulation 累积；积聚 reserve 保留；储备 frustrated 失意的；挫败的 |
