本站原创久居笼中的鹦鹉对自由最深的期盼也只不过是时时把自由挂在嘴边而已.人又何尝不是如此.试问有多少人能真正冲出自己的安全牢笼,勇敢地踏入外面那危机四伏却又自由广阔的世界?
A man—a great man, a fighter for freedom—was treling in the mountains. He stayed in a caransary1） for the night. He was amazed that in the caransary there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating "Freedom! Freedom!" And it was such a place that when the parrot repeated the word "Freedom!" it would go on echoing in the valleys and mountains.
The man thought, "I he seen many parrots, and I he thought they must want to be free from those cages ... but I he never seen such a parrot whose whole day is spent in calling out for freedom." He had an idea. In the middle of the night, when the owner was fast asleep, he got up and opened the door of the cage. He whispered to the parrot, "Now get out."
But he was very surprised that the parrot was clinging2） to the bars of the cage. He said to it again and again, "He you fotten about freedom? Just get out! The door is open. Your owner is fast asleep； nobody will ever know. You just fly into the sky； the whole sky is yours."
He even tried to take the parrot out with his own hands, but the parrot started pecking3） at him, and at the same time it was shouting "Freedom! Freedom!" The valleys in the night echoed and re-echoed, but the man was also stubborn4）—he was a freedom fighter.
He pulled the parrot out and threw him into the sky； he was very satiied, although his hand was hurt. The parrot had attacked him as forcefully as it could, but the man was immensely5） satiied that he had made a soul free. He went to sleep.
In the morning, as the man was waking up, he heard the parrot shouting, "Freedom! Freedom!" He thought the parrot must be sitting on a tree or on a rock. But when he came out, the parrot was sitting in the cage. The door was open.
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1. caransary [krvnsri] n. （旧时商人或香客等旅行队过夜的）客店,旅舍（常有大院）
2. cling [kl] vi. 紧紧抓住
3. peck [pek] vi. 啄
4. stubborn [stbn] adj. 顽固的,执拗的
5. immensely [mensli] adv. <口>非常,很