英語寓言故事：最貴重的禮物

摘要：這個漂亮的小姑娘慷慨地捐出了她最珍貴的財產一一她的 金髮，令其他捐贈者的閃閃發光的金子、珠寶等捐贈物都黯然 失色。

At one stopover in a town, a huge banner was written in bold letters: FAMINE IN AFR/CA~PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY TO SAVE THE STARVING PEOPLE.

A large crowd was queuing to hand over their the door of the town hall stood abeautiful young girl, poorly but neatly dressed.

在一個鎮上的中轉站掛着一個巨型橫幅，上面用黑體字寫着： ¨非洲饑荒，請您慷慨解囊，拯救飢餓的人們。¨在那兒有一大羣 人在排隊捐贈。

A large crowd was queuing to hand over their the door of the town hall stood abeautiful young girl, poorly but neatly dressed.

市政廳的門旁站着一個漂亮的小姑娘，她的衣服質地很差， 卻很整潔。她注視着眼前的人們，眼裏閃爍着害羞的神情。

With shy glances she watched the people before her. She saw a merchant who laid a bag of90ld on the table.

她看 見一位商人把一袋金子放在了桌上。

最貴重的禮物

Then came a rich lady with haughty looks who offered a variety of jewels; some others handedcash, clothing's and foodstuff, The girl was reluctant to take her turn but at last, summoningup her courage, she stepped forward.

接着，一位傲慢的貴夫人拿 出了各種珠寶，其他人也遞上了現金、衣服和食物。小姑娘還在猶豫要不要捐，最終她還是鼓起勇氣走上前去。

" is so small I am ashamed to offer it. It seems worthless, but it is all I have, "she said.

¨可是……這太少了，我都不好意思拿出來。它看起來一文不值， 但這是我所有的東西了。¨她說道。

"We are grateful for eten the smallest offering," the man at the counter replied kindly. "Hereit is, I have nothing else to give," she added timidly, she drew under her cloak two long thickplaits of her golden hair.

¨即使是最少的捐贈，我們也 非常感激，¨櫃檯旁的人和善地說口¨給，我沒有別的可捐了。”她羞怯地補充說。她從披風下拽出兩根又長又粗的金色辮子

As she did so, the hood of hercloak fell back, showing the beautifully young head shorn of itsgolden glory.

。這時， 披風的風帽掉了下來，露出已失去金色光環的漂亮的小腦袋。

The generosity of this beautiful girl to donate her most priceless possession, her goldenlocks of hair, overshadowed all the glittering gold or j8wels of the other donors.

這個漂亮的小姑娘慷慨地捐出了她最珍貴的財產一一她的 金髮，令其他捐贈者的閃閃發光的金子、珠寶等捐贈物都黯然失色。

　　女兒和媳婦

Two women were chatting in a room,

兩個婦人在聊天，

One asked, "How is everthing going with your son?"

其中一個問道「你兒子還好吧?」

"Oh,don't even mention it! What a huge misfortune!!" The woman sighed :

「別提了，真是不幸哦!!」這個婦人嘆息道：

"He is poor enough, and married an extraordinary lazy daughter-in-law. She doesn’t cook, notclean the room, not look after the children except to sleep all the time. It was my son whobrings breakfast to her bed.

「他實在夠可憐，娶個媳婦懶的要命，不燒飯、不掃地、不洗衣服、不帶孩子，整天就是睡覺，我兒子還要端早餐到她的牀上呢!!」

"How about your dauther?"

「你那女兒呢?」

"She might be lucky." the woman smiled.

「那她可就好命了。」婦人滿臉笑容

"She married a good husband who doesn’t allow her to do the housework, and handleseverything all alone. The housework includes cooking, washing, cleaning and looking after thechildren. What’s more, he brings breakfast to my daughter every day."

「他嫁了一個不錯的丈夫，不讓他做家事，全部都由先生一手包辦，煮飯、洗衣、掃地、帶孩子，而且每天早上還端早點到牀上給她吃呢!」

Consider

試想

same situation, but when we look from my perspective, it will have a different mentality.

同樣的狀況，但是當我們從我的角度去看時，就會產生不同的心態。

stand to look at other people's position, or at each other's point of view to think about a lot ofthings not the case,

站在別人的立場看一看，或在對方的角度想一想，很多事就不一樣了，

You can have a greater tolerance, will have more love.

你可以有更大的包容，也會有更多的愛。

accommodate only have love, only love do not accommodate, and all are in vain.

有包容纔有愛，只有愛不懂包容，一切皆枉然。