英语翻译
英语翻译
Parent helps child.
Westley Moore was a fifteen-year-old American boy.Five minutes changed his life.Before then,he was just another kid going down a dead-end road.His father had died.His mother worked three jobs to pay for her three children's education.She really wanted them to succeed.Yet Wesley was a bad boy.Studying did not interest him.He got into trouble at school and with the police.Luckily,his mother never gave up trying to help.She bought him books about sports to read.Her children's school work had a special place in the home.She took the family to music concerts and talks on interesting subjects.
But Westley still kept slipping.Sometimes he didn't go to school and his mother didn't know where he was.So she sent him to a military school.Students wore army uniforms and lived like soldiers.Of course,he didn't like it.He ran away a lot.He finally told the school he wanted to leave.They let Westley call his mother for five minutes.After that the bad boy would never be the same."It was exactly what I needed," he said."My mother helped me understand the many sacrifices she had made for me.I realized she was living her life for her children.She said that even though my father wasn't there,he was looking down at me and wanted to be proud.That's when I changed.I wanted to do better."
Soon Westley became the top student at school and later studied at a good university.He did so well that he has been invited to study at Oxford University,one of the best universities in the world and a very high honor for any student.Why did he change from a bad boy to an honor student?It wasn't luck.His friends and family say this is a story of how parents can change young people in trouble.They should not give up on their children.Instead,parents should try different ways to help them.They should let their children know different people and ideas.It is important to get children interested in reading.A child also needs to feel good about himself or herself."There are a lot of things that move a kid in the right or wrong direction.Parents who are there for their children are very important," Westley said.
韦斯利 摩尔 是一个十五岁的美国男孩。他的生活在五分钟内就改变了。在那之前，他还只是个走进死胡同的小孩子。他父亲已经过世。他母亲为了供三个孩子上学找了三份工作。她希望她的孩子能成才。而韦斯利还很年幼，他对学习不感兴趣。他在学校遇到麻烦，警察也找他麻烦。所幸，他母亲从没放弃过帮助他。她给他买体育书籍，让他去读。她专门给孩子们腾出地方让他们写家庭作业。她在家里开音乐会并谈论有趣的主题。但韦斯利仍然懒散。他有时逃学，连他母亲也不知道他在哪。于是他母亲把他送进军校。军校学生身穿军装，过着军人一样的日子。他当然不喜欢那些，还是经常逃避。最后他告诉校方他要离开学校。校方充许他与他妈妈通上五分钟的电话。那孩子就在那五分钟之后改变了。“也正是我所需要的”他说“我母亲让我明白她为我付出了很多，我开始意识到她是为了她的孩子而活着。她说虽然我父亲不在了，他仍在某处看着我，希望以我为荣；当时我就改变了，我想变得更好。”
很快，韦斯利成了校里的尖子生，后来考上了一所好大学。他如此优秀，世界上最好的大学之一也是许多学生崇尚的牛津大学邀请他去就读。他为什么会从一个无知男孩转变成一个光荣的学生呢？
那可不是偶然，他的朋友和家人都说这是一个父母如何改变迷惘少年的故事。父母不应放弃自己的孩子。相反，父母应该用不同的方式去帮助孩子。他们应该让孩子们知道不同的人和思想。培养孩子的求知欲是很重要的。孩子也要自我感觉良好。韦斯利说：“有很多事物能把孩子引向或对或错的方向，对孩子来说很重要的父母就是其一。”