几乎世界上的每一件事物都有自己的限制。你可以开车从旧金山到纽约,但是如果你想开车去日本的话,就会遇到海洋的阻挠。你不会跳越悬崖,因为你知道你不会飞。其实,在我们现实生活中也会有很多类似的各种限制,它们往往来自于我们的父母、朋友、社会和政府。例如,我们的父母会告诉我们晚上应该什么时间睡觉,我们的朋友会告诉我们穿着、举止应该如何才得当,社会习惯要求我们用勺而不是用手捧碗去喝汤,政府会设立行车速度限制和一些其他的法律等等。我们自己也会给自己设立限制。其中有些限制对我们有利。例如,在重要考试的前一夜我们决不能通宵看电视,或者我们限制自己不要吃太多的糖,以免得龋齿。不过,有些限制会阻止我们去做我们真正应该做的事,虽然我们可以推翻这些限制。吉姆·阿博特天生就比别人少一只手,但这并没有妨碍他成为加州安吉尔斯棒球队的投球手。 Almost everything in the world has its own limitations. You can drive from San Francisco to New York, but if you want to drive to Japan, you will encounter the obstruction of the sea. You don’t jump over the cliff because you know you can’t fly. In fact, there are many similar restrictions in our real life. They often come from our parents, friends, society and government. For example, our parents will tell us when we should go to bed at night. Our friends will tell us how we should be properly dressed and behave. Social habits require us to use a spoon instead of holding a bowl to drink soup. The government will set a speed limit. And some other laws and so on. We will also set restrictions on ourselves. Some of these restrictions are beneficial to us. For example, we must not watch TV all night long before the important test, or we limit ourselves not to eat too much sugar, so as not to get squeaky. However, some restrictions will prevent us from doing what we really should, although we can override these restrictions. Jim Abbot was born one less hand than the others, but this did not prevent him from becoming a pitcher for the California Angels baseball team.