Yuan Longping

武麗萍

袁隆平“共和國勛章”獲得者、“雜交水稻之父”，這位為我國和世界糧食安全做出不可磨滅貢獻的科學家為我們永遠銘記。除了他的科學事業，其實我們還能從袁隆平的日常興趣與愛好中學到很多。

When it comes to Yuan Longping， we will think of him as the “Father of Hybrid Rice”. However， Yuan's private life is less well-known， and involved reading， swimming， playing the violin and so on. From a potential national swimming athlete to his love of the violin， here are some of the lesser-known aspects of Yuan's life.

Yuan Longping has a unique reading habit： recitation. In the first year of high school， the school held a speech contest. Yuan Longping and the other two 1）contestants in the class selected the speech and read aloud on the roof of the 2）dormitory building in the morning. Since then， he has found that reading aloud is a good reading method： it can strengthen memory， 3）stimulate thinking， deepen understanding of articles， and can also train Mandarin and exercise lung capacity. Even after he started working， he still maintainedthis reading habit. After each reading， he devoted himself to the field to study hybrid rice. He once used “thinking gymnastics” to describe reading. He always felt that his thinking would be particularly active and his energy would be particularly 4）abundant.

Yuan is also a good swimmer. When Yuan was 8 years old， his family left Hankou， Hubei， and boarded a ship for Taoyuan county， Hunan. On the journey， the young Yuan fell overboard， and was saved by a worker on one of the passing boats. This apparently inspired Yuan to learn to swim — he wanted to be able to save others just as the boatman had saved him.

Yuan began to learn from a classmate in exchange for teaching him maths. Yuan became so 5）proficient that he went on to represent Sichuan Province in a national swimming competition in Chengdu. Yuan finished fourth in his race， while the top three entered China's national swimming team program.

Yuan picked up the hobby of playing the violin from a music lover at college. He believed that the violin can 6）interpret “the sound that touches the depths of the soul” and music is the warmth that has accompanied him throughout his life. In Yuan's home， there were many music discs， all of which are works by 7）masters such as Tchaikovsky and Schubert.

Yuan once said， “People are like seeds. We should be a good seed.” We should be a good one in physical and mental. Yuan 8）ploughed himself the field， 9）indifferent to fame and wealth. With the attitude of a farmer， he enriched his spirit and harvested the 10）fragrance of the soil. Not only did he accomplish great things， but he also had a unique soul. As middle school students， we should also find our own interests and life ideals like Yuan.

提到袁隆平，我們會想到他是“雜交水稻之父”。但袁隆平的業余生活鮮為人知，他的業余愛好涉及閱讀、游泳、拉小提琴等。從一名潛在的國家游泳運動員到對小提琴的熱愛，以下是袁隆平生活中一些鮮為人知的方面。

袁隆平有一個獨特的閱讀習慣：誦讀。高一時，學校舉行演講比賽，袁隆平和班上另外兩名參賽選手選定演講稿后，早起相邀到宿舍樓頂大聲朗讀。從那時開始，他發現大聲朗讀是一種很好的讀書方法，不僅可以強化記憶、刺激思維、加深對文章的理解，還可以訓練普通話、鍛煉肺活量。參加工作后，他依然保持這一誦讀習慣。每次誦讀后，他再投身于田間地頭研究雜交水稻。他曾用“思維體操”形容誦讀，他總覺得誦讀后的思維會特別活躍，精力也格外充沛。

袁隆平也是一個游泳能手。他八歲時，舉家離開湖北漢口，乘船前往湖南桃園。在旅途中，年輕的袁隆平落水了，被其中一艘過往船只上的工人救起。這激發了他學習游泳的動力——他希望能夠像船夫救他一樣去救別人。

袁隆平開始向同學學習，交換條件是教他同學數學。袁隆平精通游泳，以至于隨后他代表四川省參加在成都舉行的全國游泳比賽。他在比賽中獲得第四名，而前三名進入中國國家游泳隊。

袁隆平在大學時從一個音樂愛好者那兒學到了拉小提琴。他相信小提琴可以詮釋“最能觸及靈魂深處的聲音”，而音樂是陪伴他一生的溫暖。袁隆平家里藏有不少音樂唱片，都是柴可夫斯基、舒伯特等大師的作品。

袁隆平曾說：“人就像種子，要做一粒好種子?！?我們要在身體與精神上都做到一個“好”字。袁隆平自己躬耕于田野，淡泊名利。他以一介農夫的姿態，豐富著自己的精神，收獲著泥土的芬芳。他不僅成就了豐功偉績，還擁有獨特的靈魂。作為中學生，我們也要像袁隆平一樣找到自己的興趣愛好和人生理想。