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　　Life is the coffee

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

一羣畢業生，各自在事業上都已有所建樹，相約一起去看望他們年老的大學教授。

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.

談話一會兒就變成了各自對工作和生活壓力的抱怨。在用咖啡招待這些客人時，教授去廚房端來一大壺咖啡，並拿出各式各樣的咖啡杯——陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有看上去普通的、有價值不菲的、有做工精細的——讓他們自己倒咖啡喝。

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

當所有學生手中都端了一杯咖啡後，教授發話了：

"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. "

“如果你們注意一下，就會發現所有好看的昂貴的杯子都被挑走了，剩下的只是那些普通的和便宜的。當然，每個人都只想擁有最好的，這很正常，但這也是你們的問題和壓力的根源所在。”

"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，杯子本身與咖啡質量毫無關係。在很多時候，杯子讓咖啡更昂貴，某些時候，甚至讓我們看不清我們要喝的是什麼。”

"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.

“其實你們真正想要的是咖啡，而不是杯子，但你們卻又都下意識去挑選最好的杯子，並觀察別人拿到的杯子。”

"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."

“現在設想一下：如果生活是杯中的咖啡，工作、財富和社會地位就是那些杯子。他們只是維持生活的工具而已，並不改變生活質量。有時候，我們在過於關注杯子的同時卻忘記了去品味上帝賜予的咖啡。所以，不要成爲杯子的奴隸……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.

這意味着你將更容易做決定什麼時候應該去工作，因爲在你轉換工作模式來適應自己作息的時候，你遇到的阻礙少了許多。

　　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.”

諺語說：“能登上金字塔的生物只有兩種——雄鷹與蝸牛。”如果我們需要光明,我們就得征服黑暗.在產生的結果方面,毅力往往可以與天才相媲美。假如我再回到童年,我會更多地培養自己的毅力,決不因爲事情艱難或麻煩而放棄不幹

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，我會培養自己專心致志的習慣;一旦手頭有事，決不讓任何東西使我分心。我會牢記：一位優秀的溜冰手從不試圖同時滑向兩個不同的方向。如果及早養成專心致志的習慣，它就會成爲我們生命的一個部分。

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.

我常常聽到成年認說：“儘管我希望集中注意力聽講課或讀書，但往往做不到。”其願意就在於年輕時沒有養成這種習慣。

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.

假如我能重新活過，我會更加註意培養自己的記憶力。我要採取一切可能的辦法，在一切可能的場合,增強記憶力。要精確地記住一切事物，起初的確要作出一番小小的努力;但用不了多久，記憶力本身就會起作用，使記憶成爲輕而易舉的事。只需及早培養，記憶自會成爲一種才能。

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，我就要培養勇氣。"世上沒有東西比勇氣更溫文爾雅，也沒有東西比懦怯更殘酷無情。"一位明智的作家曾說過我們常常過多地自尋煩惱，"杞人憂天。" 怕禍害比禍害本身更可怕,凡事都有危險，但鎮定沉着往往能克服最嚴重的危險。對一切禍福做好準備，那麼就沒有什麼災難可以害怕的了。

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，我會凡事都看光明的一面。生活就像一面鏡子：你朝它微笑，它也會朝你微笑：但如果你朝它皺眉頭，它也會朝你皺眉頭;內心的陽光不僅溫暖了自己的心，同時也溫暖了所有跟他接觸的人的心。

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

“誰將愛拒之門外，誰就會被愛拒之門外。”

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，我就要養成經常說“不”的習慣。 我可以寫上好幾頁，談談早期培養這一點的重要性,一個少年要能挺得起腰桿,拒絕做不值得做得事——就因爲它不值得做。

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，我會要求自己對待同伴和朋友更禮貌，而且對陌生人也同樣如此。再坎坷得人生道路上，最細小的禮貌猶如在漫長的冬季爲我們唱歌的小鳥，使得冰天雪地的嚴冬變得較易忍受。最後，假如我再回到童年，我不會竭力爲自己謀幸福——彷彿那是人生的唯一目標;與之相反，我會更加努力——讓他人幸福。