绘/小雨点

The Brave is not Fearless， But They Recognize Something More Important

绘/小雨点

My dearest daughter, today is your sixteenth birthday. Congratulations. I present you with this diary to fill the pages with your special thoughts of your wonderful life. It is a custom in my family to pass on①①pass on 继续前进，向前走；把……传给（下一代）；传送；传达；转移；交给He bowed to me and passed on. 他向我鞠了个躬，向前走去。a piece of wisdom when one reaches this age. I pass it on to you as my father passed it on to me. Amelia, courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. From now on, you'll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow youself to make the journey. I also want you to know I loved your mother very much and still think of her often. Happy Birthday, my Mia. All my love, your father.

I a m r e a lly no g o o d a t speechmaking. Normally I get so nervous that I faint or run away or sometimes I even get sick. But you really didn't need to know that. But I am not so afraid anymore. My father helped me. Earlier this evening, I had every intention of giving up my claim to the throne and my mother helped me by telling me that it was ok and by supporting me like she has for my entire life. But, then I wondered how I'd feel after abdicating②abdicate 英 ［'æbdɪkeɪt］ 美 ［'æbdɪket］ vi. 退位；放弃 vt. 退位；放弃同义词组：fall out of ， render up vi. 退位；放弃 同义词： yield ， desert ， quit vt. 退位；放弃King Edward Ⅷ of England abdicated the throne in 1936. 英王爱德华八世于1936年退位。The aging founder of the university decided to abdicate. 该大学年事已高的创始人决定引退。my role as princess of genovia.

Would I feel relieved or would I feel sad? And then I realized how many stupid times a day I use the word "I".

In fact, probably all I ever do is think about myself, and how lame is that when there are 7 billion other people on the planet and, Oh, sorry, I'm going too fast.

But then I thought if I cared about the other 7 billion out there instead of just me, that's probably a much better use of my time.

See, if I were princess of genovia, then my thoughts and the thoughts of people smarter than me would be much better heard and just maybe those thoughts could be turned into③turn into （使）成为，（使）变为，转变为；译为He turned those sentences into English. 他把那些句子译成了英文。to turn failure into success 转败为胜They turned the reading room into a laboratory. 他们把阅览室改建成了一个试验室。同近义词 v. 变成；进入 come into ， change intoactions.

So this morning when I woke up, I was mia thermopolis.

B ut now, I c hoos e t o be f orev ermore A melia mignonette thermopolis renaldi, princess of Genovia.

This ring has been passed on in my family from mother to daughter. 在我家里，这个戒指是妈妈留给女儿的。He has passed me on all the materials which he had got together. 他把已搜集到的材料全交给了我。