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标题: 【赫临译笔】生活像杯中的咖啡 [打印本页]

作者: ヮ成熟、羙° 时间: 2013-12-2 12:21
标题: 【赫临译笔】生活像杯中的咖啡
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生活像杯中的咖啡

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一群大学毕业生结伴去拜访他们的老教授。谈话很快进入报怨生活和工作中的压力。为每位客人准备一杯咖啡，教授进了厨房，回来时拿了一个大咖啡壶和各种各样的杯子，有瓷制的，有塑料的，有玻璃的，有水晶的，有的平常，有的昂贵，有的精致，教授让学生们自选。当所有学生都一杯在手时，教授说：“如果你们留心的话，就会发现，所有漂亮的昂贵的杯子都被取走，剩下的都是又平常又便宜的。你们只想要最好的虽然正常，但这正是你们烦恼和压力的来源。”

“要相信杯子本身并不提升咖啡的品质。多数情况下它会提高咖啡的价格，有的情况下甚至掩盖咖啡的味道。”“你们大家想要的是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们却有意识地追求最好的杯子。然后开始垂涎彼此的杯子。“现在要这样考虑：生活是咖啡，工作、金钱、社会地位都是杯子。它们只是容纳咖啡的杯具，杯子的式样既不决定也不改变我们生活的质量。有时，只把注意力集中到杯子身上，我们就不能享受咖啡了。要品味咖啡，不是杯子！不要受杯子的驱使，而要享受里面的咖啡。”

附：原文

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

The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned witha 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.

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

"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."

"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. "

"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.

"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."

作者: 丛中笑 时间: 2013-12-2 17:52
"要品味咖啡，不是杯子！"完全正确！