英文愛藏:那一年,我們各奔東西

第16章 青春不散場 (15)

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1. ...or children of undergrads taking advantage of the GI Bill.

take advantage of:利用;欺騙;占……的便宜

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2. ...we walked back to the school, perhaps just a mile or so away, packed up our things...

pack up:打包;收拾;停止工作

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滿世界都是微笑

World of Smiles

佚名 / Anonymous

About 10 years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.

As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of perched on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.

As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen. All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life was all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world: a world of smiles, love and warmth.

That was 10 years ago. I’m a successful business person now. And whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.

大約十年前,當我還是個在校的大學生時,我在學校的自然曆史博物館做實習生。一天,當我正在禮品店的收銀台工作時,看到一對老夫婦推著一位坐在輪椅上的小姑娘走進店裏。

近看時,我看到她完全是被放在椅子上的。她沒有手臂和雙腿,隻有頭部、頸部和軀幹。她穿著一件有紅色斑點的白色連衣裙。