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    本文作者通过讲述自己帮助一群接受救济的人重新找到在生活中的位置的经历告诉人们只要不放弃心中的梦想，你就能撑起一方属于自己的天空。

    Some years ago I accepted a task to work with people on public welfare. I saw them as a group for three hours every Friday.
    The first thing I said to them was, “I would like to know what your dreams are.”
   “Dreams? We don’t have dreams.”
    I said, “Well, wasn’t there something you wanted to do when you were a kid?”
    One woman said to me, “I don’t know what you can do with dreams. The rats are eating up my kids.”
    “Oh,” I said. “That’s terrible. How can that be helped?”
    “Well, I need someone to fix the holes in my screen door （纱门）.”
    I asked if somebody could do that.
    A man in the group said though he had a terribly bad back, （腰有毛病）he would try.
    The next week, when the group was seated, I said to the woman, “We can start dreaming, can’t we?” She sort of (有几分地) smiled at me.
    I said to the man who did the work, “How do you feel?”
    He said, “Well, I’m beginning to feel a lot better.”