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　　Life is the coffee

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.

一群毕业生，各自在事业上都已有所建树，相约一起去看望他们年老的大学教授。

The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some exquisite—telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

谈话一会儿就变成了各自对工作和生活压力的抱怨。在用咖啡招待这些客人时，教授去厨房端来一大壶咖啡，并拿出各式各样的咖啡杯——陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有看上去普通的、有价值不菲的、有做工精细的——让他们自己倒咖啡喝。

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said,

当所有学生手中都端了一杯咖啡后，教授发话了：

"If you have noticed, all the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. "

“如果你们注意一下，就会发现所有好看的昂贵的杯子都被挑走了，剩下的只是那些普通的和便宜的。当然，每个人都只想拥有最好的，这很正常，但这也是你们的问题和压力的根源所在。”

"Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. "

“可以肯定的是，杯子本身与咖啡质量毫无关系。在很多时候，杯子让咖啡更昂贵，某些时候，甚至让我们看不清我们要喝的是什么。”

"What all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

“其实你们真正想要的是咖啡，而不是杯子，但你们却又都下意识去挑选最好的杯子，并观察别人拿到的杯子。”

"Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! Don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."

“现在设想一下：如果生活是杯中的咖啡，工作、财富和社会地位就是那些杯子。他们只是维持生活的工具而已，并不改变生活质量。有时候，我们在过于关注杯子的同时却忘记了去品味上帝赐予的咖啡。所以，不要成为杯子的奴隶……好好品味杯中的咖啡。”

This means you will find it easier to decide when you work and from where, as there are less barriers in your way over shifting your work pattern around to suit.

这意味着你将更容易做决定什么时候应该去工作，因为在你转换工作模式来适应自己作息的时候，你遇到的阻碍少了许多。

　　如果再回到童年

If I were a boy again,I would practise perseverance more often,and never give up a thing because it was hard or we want light,we must conquer everance can sometimes equal genius in its results.“There are only two creatures,”says a proverb;“who can surmount the pyramids-the eagle and the snail.”

谚语说：“能登上金字塔的生物只有两种——雄鹰与蜗牛。”如果我们需要光明,我们就得征服黑暗.在产生的结果方面,毅力往往可以与天才相媲美。假如我再回到童年,我会更多地培养自己的毅力,决不因为事情艰难或麻烦而放弃不干

If I were a boy again,I would school myself into a habit of attention .I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand.I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at habit of attention becomes part of our life,if we begin early enough.

假如我再回到童年，我会培养自己专心致志的习惯;一旦手头有事，决不让任何东西使我分心。我会牢记：一位优秀的溜冰手从不试图同时滑向两个不同的方向。如果及早养成专心致志的习惯，它就会成为我们生命的一个部分。

I often hear grown-up people say,“I could not fix my attention on the lecture or book,although I wished to do so,”and the reason is,the habit was not formed in youth.

我常常听到成年认说：“尽管我希望集中注意力听讲课或读书，但往往做不到。”其愿意就在于年轻时没有养成这种习惯。

If I were to live my life over again,I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory.I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and,on every possible takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately;but memory soon helps itself,and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.

假如我能重新活过，我会更加注意培养自己的记忆力。我要采取一切可能的办法，在一切可能的场合,增强记忆力。要精确地记住一切事物，起初的确要作出一番小小的努力;但用不了多久，记忆力本身就会起作用，使记忆成为轻而易举的事。只需及早培养，记忆自会成为一种才能。

If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. "Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice," says a wise too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never fear of ill exceeds the ill we ers will arise in any career, but presence of mind will often conquer the worst of prepared for any fate, and there is no harm to be feared.

假如我又回到了童年，我就要培养勇气。"世上没有东西比勇气更温文尔雅，也没有东西比懦怯更残酷无情。"一位明智的作家曾说过我们常常过多地自寻烦恼，"杞人忧天。" 怕祸害比祸害本身更可怕,凡事都有危险，但镇定沉着往往能克服最严重的危险。对一切祸福做好准备，那么就没有什么灾难可以害怕的了。

If I were a boy again,I would look on the cheerful is very much like a mirror:if you smile upon it,it smiles back upon you;but if you frown and look doubtful on it,you will get a similar look in r sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner,but of all that come in contact with it.

假如我能再回到童年，我会凡事都看光明的一面。生活就像一面镜子：你朝它微笑，它也会朝你微笑：但如果你朝它皱眉头，它也会朝你皱眉头;内心的阳光不仅温暖了自己的心，同时也温暖了所有跟他接触的人的心。

Who shuts love out,in turn shall be shut from love.

“谁将爱拒之门外，谁就会被爱拒之门外。”

If I were a boy again,I would school myself to say “No”oftener.I might write pages on the importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect,and decline doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.

假如我再回到童年，我就要养成经常说“不”的习惯。 我可以写上好几页，谈谈早期培养这一点的重要性,一个少年要能挺得起腰杆,拒绝做不值得做得事——就因为它不值得做。

If I were a boy again,I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends,and indeed towards strangers as smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the little birds that sing to us all winter long,and make that season of ice and snow more lly,instead of trying hard to be happy,as if that were the sole purpose of life,I would,if I were a boy again,try still harder to make others happy.

假如我再回到童年，我会要求自己对待同伴和朋友更礼貌，而且对陌生人也同样如此。再坎坷得人生道路上，最细小的礼貌犹如在漫长的冬季为我们唱歌的小鸟，使得冰天雪地的严冬变得较易忍受。最后，假如我再回到童年，我不会竭力为自己谋幸福——仿佛那是人生的唯一目标;与之相反，我会更加努力——让他人幸福。