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奥里森·斯威特·马登：向前进·摘录 98
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
"May I have a holiday to-morrow, father?" asked Theodore Parker one August afternoon. The poor Lexington millwright looked in surprise at his youngest son, for it was a busy time, but he saw from the boy's earnest face that he had no ordinary object in view, and granted the request. Theodore rose very early the next morning, walked through the dust ten miles to Harvard College, and presented himself for a candidate for admission. He had been unable to attend school regularly since he was eight years old, but he had managed to go three months each winter, and had reviewed his lessons again and again as he followed the plow or worked at other tasks. All his odd moments had been hoarded, too, for reading useful books, which he borrowed. One book he could not borrow, but he felt that he must have it; so on summer mornings he rose long before the sun and picked bushel after bushel of berries, which he sent to Boston, and so got the money to buy that coveted Latin dictionary.
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定位：Excerpt 98 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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八月的一个下午，西奥多·帕克问父亲能否让他第二天请个假。这位列克星敦的穷磨坊匠惊讶地看着小儿子，因为正是农忙时节，但他从孩子认真的脸上看出他有不寻常的目的，就答应了。第二天西奥多很早起床，走了十英里尘土飞扬的路到哈佛学院，报名参加入学考试。他八岁起就无法正常上学，但每年冬天能上三个月课，他一边扶犁或干别的活，一边反复复习功课。他还把零碎时间都攒起来读借来的有用书籍。有一本书借不到，他觉得非有不可，于是夏天早晨天不亮就起床，一蒲式耳一蒲式耳地摘浆果送到波士顿卖，用挣来的钱买了那本渴望已久的拉丁词典。
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马登在《奋力向前》中讲述美国思想家西奥多·帕克少年时争取教育机会的故事，背景是十九世纪新英格兰农村。
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