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标题: 2011-01-21美文欣赏:Life is the coffee 生活是咖啡 [打印本页]

作者: youxiaxiaolala    时间: 2011-1-21 09:51     标题: 2011-01-21美文欣赏:Life is the coffee 生活是咖啡

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Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment 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 noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were 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.

"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."





   

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作者: kobe    时间: 2011-1-21 11:01

While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress

这很正常,每个人都会想着自己能挑到最好的那个,但这也就是你们的问题和压力根源之处
作者: xylook123    时间: 2011-1-21 14:09

i'd like to listen the essay
作者: jiangchunheng    时间: 2011-1-21 18:58

what has been overlooked by majority of us is the coffee contained in the cup, which in turn becomes the concentration of the attention.
作者: namu    时间: 2011-1-27 13:49

Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."
作者: laguna2007    时间: 2011-6-23 22:18

So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-6-24 09:40

回复 1# youxiaxiaolala


    While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
--当你们很自然的想要对你们自己来说是最好的时候,那就是你们问题和压力的来源。
    Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."
--现在考虑一下这样:生活就像是这咖啡和你们的工作,金钱和社会地位就是这些杯子。它们只是盛载生活的的容器,不会改变生活的质量。有时候,如果只是仅仅关注于杯子的话,我们就无法享受咖啡所赋予的美味。因此,不要让杯子让你迷失了方向。。。就尽情享受你们的咖啡吧。

That's right.Just enjoy ourselves's life,enjoy what we have now.
作者: 玄懿    时间: 2011-7-27 15:20

No matter what cups we have, just enjoy our life.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-7-27 21:48

回复 8# 玄懿


    Life is yours,so enjoy in it and don't care others.
作者: yingke19891221    时间: 2011-8-2 09:06

I  think life  is  coffee
作者: velaxf    时间: 2011-8-4 11:12

翻译真痛苦- -真不知道考试的时候阅读题怎么做
作者: nickyaoxp    时间: 2011-8-4 18:11

To be honest,I always concentrate only on the best ,and I lose the joy .
作者: 美菲儿    时间: 2011-8-6 20:53

good
作者: sunnyraintsk    时间: 2011-8-11 15:26

Life is the coffee and enjoy the coffee.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-8-12 15:44

回复 14# sunnyraintsk


   
作者: 纸船。梦    时间: 2011-8-17 11:24

the true happiness is to enjoy the life but not hunger for some things
作者: qqq1006199597    时间: 2011-9-4 11:06

Enjoy yourself .Grabe your fate!
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-9-5 17:02

回复 16# 纸船。梦


    But sometimes if there has no hunger,there has no power.
作者: lilo520    时间: 2011-9-13 10:07

顶一下,不错不错....
作者: suhongxiao    时间: 2011-10-25 16:56

thanks
作者: zqytwy    时间: 2011-11-4 22:53

Meaning the article will top
作者: xuxiaolin    时间: 2011-11-24 20:13

本帖最后由 sunny萝卜 于 2011-11-25 14:50 编辑

In the voyage of our life ,we lost ourselves and forgot the initial purpose.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 14:53

回复 22# xuxiaolin


    Looking back and reflection constantly,you will find yourself again,never be too late.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 14:55

回复 21# zqytwy


    I think so,too.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:03

回复 4# jiangchunheng


    yeah,that is why we are humen, allways to find something that really have no meaning to us.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:04

回复 6# laguna2007


    right
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:06

回复 10# yingke19891221


    Life is coffee,a little be bitter,a little be sweet, a little be sad,a little be aftertaste.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:07

回复 11# velaxf


    try your best to find clue,come on,
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:09

回复 12# nickyaoxp


    so,now you notice it, please make the change.
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:09

回复 13# 美菲儿


   
作者: sunny萝卜    时间: 2011-11-25 15:11

回复 17# qqq1006199597


    really right,don't hesitate.
作者: 绝句    时间: 2011-11-26 18:23

Thank you to  share
作者: guohh    时间: 2012-3-19 19:17

,money and postions are just tools to contain life which is the same as cups are only the tool to contain the cofffe
作者: dafeng1998    时间: 2012-4-6 11:40

when enjoying a cup of coffee,we can enjoy the nice cup.
作者: 1988kid    时间: 2012-4-6 15:53

Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.
生活是咖啡,而工作、金钱、社会地位就是这杯子。
作者: 1988kid    时间: 2012-4-6 15:53


作者: 陌上滼崋    时间: 2012-4-14 15:41

文采很好
作者: yooyo    时间: 2012-11-16 12:25

A big money should make coffe more delicious
作者: gaopeipei822    时间: 2015-4-14 18:54

生活就像咖啡
作者: honesyouhieee    时间: 2015-4-22 09:42

great
作者: gaopeipei822    时间: 2015-5-7 06:02

Thanks   for  sharing.




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