英语智慧背囊 05-生活好比自主快餐
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.00]Life is Like a Cafeteria 生活好比自助快餐馆[00:05.41]A friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. [00:11.31]After settling down at Ellis Island, [00:14.92]he went into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. [00:19.62]He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. [00:25.42]Of course nobody did. [00:27.84]Finally, a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him [00:32.98]and informed him how a cafeteria worked. [00:36.25]"Start out at that end," she said. [00:39.85]"Just go along the line and pick out what you want. [00:43.48]At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay." [00:47.52]"I soon learned that’s how everything works in America," [00:52.33]the grandfather told a friend. [00:54.19]"Life’s a cafeteria here. [00:57.36]You can get anything you want [00:59.75]as long as you are willing to pay the price. [01:02.17]You can even get success, [01:04.15]but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. [01:08.41]You have to get up and get it yourself." |
