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　　I believe in the "50-percent theory". Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.

　　Let's benchmark the parameters: Yes, I will die. I've dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.

　　Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son's baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he's swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.

　　But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.

　　One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal-- the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioner died,the well went dry, the marriage ended, the job lost, the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune -- music I loathed. Only a surging Kansas CityRoyals team, bound for their first World Series, buoyed my spirits.

　　Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn't last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon times. They reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that I can thrive. The 50 percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals' recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.

　　Oh, yeah, the corn crop? For that one blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat,withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn -- fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip -- while my neighbors' fields yielded only brown, empty husks.

　　Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.

　　我相信“50%理論”。一半時間事情比正常情況好；另一半時間情況更糟。我相信生活是一個搖擺不定的過程。理解什么是正常的需要時間和經(jīng)驗(yàn)，這給了我處理未來驚喜的視角。

　　讓我們測試一下參數(shù)：是的，我會死的。我已經(jīng)處理了父母雙雙的死亡，一個最好的朋友，一個敬愛的老板和珍愛的寵物。其中一些死亡在我眼前是暴力的，或者是緩慢而痛苦的。壞東西，它屬于天平的底部。

　　還有一些要點(diǎn)：浪漫和與合適的人結(jié)婚；生孩子和做爸爸的事情，比如指導(dǎo)我兒子的棒球隊(duì)，在船上和狗一起游泳的時候在小溪里劃來劃去，發(fā)現(xiàn)他的同情心如此之深，甚至在他的善良中也能體現(xiàn)出來。蝸牛啊，他的想象力如此生動，他用一堆散放的樂高積木建造了一艘宇宙飛船。

　　但是在中間有一片廣闊的生命草地，在那里，壞的和好的觸發(fā)器以雜技的方式。這就是使我相信百分之五十理論的原因。

　　有一年春天，我在一個容易被洪水淹沒的低洼地過早地種下了玉米，鄰居們都笑了。我對浪費(fèi)的努力感到懊惱。夏天變得殘酷——這是我有生以來最糟糕的熱浪和干旱?？照{(diào)壞了，井水干了，婚姻結(jié)束了，工作丟了，錢也沒了。我當(dāng)時正在聽鄉(xiāng)村音樂的歌詞——我討厭的音樂。只有一支奮進(jìn)的堪薩斯城市之旅，為他們的第一個世界系列賽，鼓舞了我的精神。

　　回首那個可怕的夏天，我很快就明白，所有后來的好事都只是抵消了壞事。比正常情況更糟的情況不會持續(xù)太久。我感激并享受這寧靜的時光。他們讓我重振旗鼓，迎接下一個令人討厭的驚喜，并保證我能茁壯成長。百分之五十的理論甚至幫助我看到了希望，超越了我的皇家隊(duì)最近的衰退，一個苦苦掙扎的菜鳥播種的領(lǐng)域，以便在不久的將來，我們可以收獲十月的收成。

　　哦，是的，玉米收成？在那一個酷熱的夏天，地面的濕度正好，早點(diǎn)種植可以在高溫前授粉，使頂部枯萎，而且由于缺乏雨水，直立的玉米免遭了洪水的侵襲。那年冬天，我的小床上堆滿了玉米——一對又肥又健康的三莖玉米穗，從頭到尾都是谷粒——而我鄰居們的田里只產(chǎn)出褐色的空殼。

　　雖然過去的種植量可能已經(jīng)低于50%的預(yù)期，而且將來很可能會再次出現(xiàn)，但我仍然為干旱期間盛開的作物所支撐。

　　重點(diǎn)詞匯

　　believe in相信; 信任; 信奉，信仰

　　Half the time常常;幾乎總是

　　better than比…好

　　other half妻子;丈夫;另一半

　　best friend最好的朋友

　　at the bottom of是…的真正原因; 是…的根源

　　there are有; 可數(shù)名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式; 許多重要事情要談

　　high points最有意思的部分; high point的復(fù)數(shù)

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