2011-01-21美文欣赏：Life is the coffee 生活是咖啡 life, coffee, 生活, 咖啡

youxiaxiaolala

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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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kobe

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

xylook123

i'd like to listen the essay

jiangchunheng

what has been overlooked by majority of us is the coffee contained in the cup, which in turn becomes the concentration of the attention.

namu

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."

laguna2007

So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead

sunny萝卜

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.

玄懿

No matter what cups we have, just enjoy our life.

sunny萝卜

回复 8# 玄懿


    Life is yours,so enjoy in it and don't care others.

yingke19891221

I  think life  is  coffee

velaxf

翻译真痛苦- -真不知道考试的时候阅读题怎么做

nickyaoxp

To be honest,I always concentrate only on the best ,and I lose the joy .

美菲儿

good

sunnyraintsk

Life is the coffee and enjoy the coffee.

sunny萝卜

回复 14# sunnyraintsk


   

纸船。梦

the true happiness is to enjoy the life but not hunger for some things

qqq1006199597

Enjoy yourself .Grabe your fate!

sunny萝卜

回复 16# 纸船。梦


    But sometimes if there has no hunger,there has no power.

lilo520

顶一下，不错不错....

suhongxiao

thanks