昕慧

生活里，我們常常愛(ài)羨慕別人，羨慕別人有優(yōu)異的成績(jī)，羨慕別人有體面的工作，羨慕別人有姣好的容貌等等。到最后才發(fā)現(xiàn)，羨慕別人都是徒勞，做好自己才是關(guān)鍵。做自己，是一種對(duì)自我的關(guān)注，要求我們肯定自己、欣賞自己、超越自己，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的不足。今天故事的主人公小黑鳥(niǎo)Nick也總愛(ài)羨慕別人身上的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，他最后如愿以償了嗎？我們一起來(lái)看看吧！

There are many beautiful and lovely birds in the forest. They sing and play happily.

Nick，a small black bird，also lives in the forest. But he looks unhappy. Can you guess why？

Nick is a small black swift. He is always alone.

He is too shy to make friends with other birds.

One day，Nick meets a magpie. She has a beautiful long tail.

“What a beautiful tail！ My tail is short. It looks like scissors. I wish I could have a beautiful long tail too.”

Nick finds some peacock feathers and decorates his tail. Finally it looks long and beautiful.

Words：

swift名詞，褐雨燕（一種因飛行速度極快而聞名的鳥(niǎo)。）

alone形容詞，獨(dú)自的，孤獨(dú)的

magpie名詞，喜鵲

scissors名詞，剪刀

peacock名詞，孔雀

feather名詞，羽毛

decorate動(dòng)詞，裝飾

finally副詞，最終

But the feathers are too heavy. Nick loses his balance when he flies in the sky. Nick has to throw the feathers away.

Nick meets a parrot. The parrot spreads his colorful wings.“What beautiful wings！ My wings are black. I always look like a piece of coal. I wish I could have a pair of colorful wings too.”

Words：

lose動(dòng)詞，失去

balance名詞，平衡

throw away扔掉

spread動(dòng)詞，展開(kāi)

coal名詞，煤炭

paint名詞，顏料

fall動(dòng)詞，掉下

nest名詞，巢

scream動(dòng)詞，尖叫

wash away沖走

Nick finds some paints.

He starts to color his wings.

They look bright and colorful.

He flies happily in the sky.

Suddenly it begins to rain.

The rain washes away the paints.

Nicks wings become black again.

Nick feels sad.

At this time，a baby bird falls out of its nest.

The magpie and the parrot begin to scream.

They all fly towards the baby bird.

Nick flies more swiftly than the other two.

He saves the baby bird.

The baby birds mother comes down for her baby.

“Thank you！ Thanks for saving my baby！ Youre really SWIFT！”

“Youre so cool！ You looked like a flash just now！” the magpie and the parrot look at Nick adoringly.

They wish they had Nicks tail and wings so they could fly as swiftly as Nick.

The mother bird says to them，“You are all excellent！ Everyone has his or her own strong points. So just be yourselves！”

Words：

swiftly副詞，迅速地

save動(dòng)詞，挽救

swift形容詞，迅速的

flash名詞，閃光

adoringly副詞，崇拜地

as ... as ...和……一樣

strong point優(yōu)點(diǎn)，長(zhǎng)處