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你能想象得到一個人在經歷了兩場重大的事故後，在身體高位癱瘓的情況下會取得什麼樣的成就嗎?接下來，小編給大家準備了是的，你行英語美文賞析,歡迎大家參考與借鑑。

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.　Aldous Huxley

What if at age 46 you were burned beyond recognition in a terrible motorcycle accident, and then four years Later were paralyzed from the waist down in an airplane crash? Then, can you imagine yourself becoming a millionaire, a respected public speaker, a happy newlywed and a successful business person? Can you see yourself going white water rafting? Sky diving? Running for political office?

W. Mitchell has done all these things and more after two horrible accidents left his face a quilt of multicolored skin grafts, his hands fingerless and his legs thin and motionless in a wheelchair.

The 16 surgeries Mitchell endured after the motorcycle accident burned more than 65 percent of his body, left him unable to pick up a fork, dial a telephone or go to the bathroom without help. But Mitchell, a former Marine, never believed he was defeated. "I am in charge of my own spaceship," he said. "It's my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or a starting point." Six moths later he was piloting a plane again.

Mitchell bought himself a Victorian home in Colorado, some real estate, a plane and a bar. Later he teamed up with two friends and co-founded a wood burning stove company that grew to be Vermont's second largest private employer.

Then four years after the motorcycle accident, the plane Mitchell was piloting crashed back onto the runway during takeoff, crushing Mitchell's 12 thoracic vertebras and permanently paralyzing him from the waist down. "I wondered what the hell was happening to me. What did I do to deserve this?"

Undaunted, Mitchell worked day and night to regain as much independence as possible. He was elected Mayor of Crested Butte, Colorado, to save the town from mineral mining that would ruin its beauty and environment. Mitchell later ran for Congress, turning his odd appearance into an asset with slogans such as, "Not just another pretty face."

Despite his initially shocking looks and physical challenges, Mitchell began white water rafting, he fell in love and married, earned a master's degree in public administration and continued flying, environmental activism and public speaking.

Mitchell's unshakable Positive Mental Attitude has earned him appearances on the "Today Show" and "Good Morning America" as well as feature articles in parade, Time, The New York Times and other publications.

"Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 I could do," Mitchell says. "Now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left. I tell people that I have had two big bumps in my life. If I have chosen not of the experiences you are having which are pulling you back can be put into a new perspective. You can step back, take a wider view and have a chance to say, "Maybe that isn't such a big deal after all."

　　擴展：標點符號翻譯

±　plus or minus　正負號

+　 plus　加號;正號

-　 minus　減號;負號

×　is multiplied by　乘號

÷　is divided by　除號

=　is equal to　等於號

≠　is not equal to　不等於號

≡　is equivalent to　全等於號

鍘is equal to or approximately equal to　等於或約等於號

≈　is approximately equal to　約等於號

<　is less than　小於號

>　is more than　大於號

凇is not less than　不小於號

邸is not more than　不大於號

≤　is less than or equal to　小於或等於號

≥　is more than or equal to　大於或等於號

%　 per cent　百分之…

‰　per mill　千分之…

∞　infinity1　無限大號

°　degree　度

′　minute　分

″　second　秒

妗Celsius2 system　攝氏度

{　open brace3, open curly　左花括號

}　close brace, close curly　右花括號

(　open parenthesis4, open paren　左圓括號

)　close parenthesis, close paren　右圓括號

() brakets/ parentheses5　括號

[　open bracket 左方括號

]　close bracket 右方括號

[] square brackets　方括號

.　period, dot　句號，點

|　vertical6 bar, vertical virgule　豎線

&　ampersand, and, reference, ref　和，引用

/　slash8, divide, oblique9 斜線，斜槓，除號

//　slash-slash, comment 雙斜線，註釋符

#　pound　井號

∝　varies as　與…成比例

√　(square) root　平方根

摺since; because　因爲

∴　hence　所以

恕equals, as (proportion)　等於，成比例

∠　angle　角

小semicircle　半圓

選circle　圓

稹circumference10　圓周

π　pi 圓周率

鰲triangle　三角形

⊥　perpendicular11 to　垂直於

∪　union of　並，合集

∩　intersection12 of 交，通集

∫　the integral of …的積分

∑　(sigma) summation13 of　總和

　backslash, sometimes escape　反斜線轉義符，有時表示轉義符或續行符

~　tilde　波浪符

.　full stop　句號

,　comma　逗號

:　colon14　冒號

;　semicolon　分號

?　question mark　問號

!　exclamation15 mark (英式英語) exclamation point (美式英語)

'　apostrophe　撇號

-　hyphen　連字號

-- dash 破折號

...　dots/ ellipsis　省略號

"　single quotation marks 單引號

""　double quotation marks 雙引號

parallel 雙線號

&　ampersand = and

swung dash 代字號

§　section; division 分節號

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