介绍： 美美读来5- coffee and life
I’m Frank Mars with Read Your Beauty , and here’s a story about coffee and life : before we do this, pay attention to the sense groups in a sentence, take the first paragraph of the story for example:
– A group of famous people// came to visit their old teacher.// During the visi...

介绍： 美美读来5- coffee and life
I’m Frank Mars with Read Your Beauty , and here’s a story about coffee and life : before we do this, pay attention to the sense groups in a sentence, take the first paragraph of the story for example:
– A group of famous people// came to visit their old teacher.// During the visit// the talk turned to work:// these “students” //were complaining// about difficulties and problems of life.//
– Now, let’s try the following:
A group of famous people came to visit their old teacher. During the visit the talk turned to work: these “students” were complaining about difficulties and problems of life.
After offering coffee to his guests, the teacher went to the kitchen and came back with a coffee pot and a tray, crowded with many different cups: some cups were simple, other ones – expensive.
When the students picked out the cups, the teacher said:
– Notice, how all the beautiful cups were picked out, and the simple and cheap ones were left. And although it seems normal for you – wanting only the best things for yourself, that is the source of your problems and stress. You need to understand, that the cup doesn’t make the coffee better. Most of the time it’s only more expensive, but sometimes it is hiding what we are drinking. Actually, all that you wanted was only coffee, not the cup.
And now think: life – is coffee, and job, money, position and society – are the cups. They are only instruments for life. The type of cup we have, doesn’t determine the quality of our life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cups, we forget to enjoy the taste of coffee. The happiest people are not those who have the best things, but those who enjoy the life and get the most of it with what they have.
~words today~:
coffee pot:咖啡壶
tray:托盘
normal: a.正常的
source: n.来源
instrument: n.工具，仪器
determine: vt.决定
concentrate: vi专注于
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