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智慧背囊 品味人生-10-试金石

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[00:04.63]The Touchstone 试金石
[00:06.87]When the great library of Alexandria burned,
[00:10.58]the story goes, one book was saved.
[00:13.76] But it was not a valuable book;
[00:16.16]and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers1.
[00:21.08]The book wasn’t very interesting,
[00:23.71]but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed.
[00:27.76]It was a thin strip2 of vellum on which was written the secret of the "Touchstone"!
[00:33.34]The touchstone was a small pebble3 that could turn any common metal into pure gold.
[00:39.25] The writing explained that it was lying among
[00:42.53]thousands and thousands of other pebbles4 that looked exactly like it.
[00:46.47] But the secret was this:
[00:48.76]The real stone would feel warm,
[00:51.17]while ordinary pebbles are cold.
[00:53.47]So the man sold his few belongings5,
[00:56.42]bought some simple supplies,
[00:58.61] camped on the seashore,
[01:00.25]and began testing pebbles.
[01:02.11]He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles
[01:05.28] and threw them down again because they were cold,
[01:08.35] he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times.
[01:11.51]So, when he felt one that was cold,
[01:14.57] he threw it into the sea.
[01:16.44]He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone.
[01:21.26]Yet he went on and on this way.
[01:23.88] Pick up a pebble.
[01:25.30] Cold—throw it into the sea.
[01:27.49] Pick up another. Throw it into the sea.
[01:30.55]The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months.
[01:34.72] One day, however, about midafternoon,
[01:37.88] he picked up a pebble and it was warm.
[01:40.62] He threw it into the sea before he realized what he had done.
[01:44.34] He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea
[01:49.04]that when the one he wanted came along,
[01:51.78] he still threw it away.
[01:53.74]So it is with opportunity.
[01:56.26]Unless we are vigilant6,
[01:58.12]it’s easy to fail to recognize an opportunity
[02:01.51]when it is in hand
[02:03.26]and it’s just as easy to throw it away.

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1 coppers 3646702fee6ab6f4a49ba7aa30fb82d1     
铜( copper的名词复数 ); 铜币
参考例句:
  • I only paid a few coppers for it. 我只花了几个铜板买下这东西。
  • He had only a few coppers in his pocket. 他兜里仅有几个铜板。
2 strip NtFwb     
n.长条,条状;连环漫画;n.脱衣舞;vt.脱衣,剥夺;挤干(牛奶);vt.拆卸;去除(烟叶的茎);vi.脱衣,表演脱衣舞;剥落
参考例句:
  • I need one more strip of cloth to finish this decoration.我还要一根布条来完成这个装饰品。
  • We had to strip the old paint from the doors.我们只好把门上的旧漆刮掉。
3 pebble c3Rzo     
n.卵石,小圆石
参考例句:
  • The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋,想去孵它。
  • The pebble made a ripple on the surface of the lake.石子在湖面上激起一个涟漪。
4 pebbles e4aa8eab2296e27a327354cbb0b2c5d2     
[复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet. 汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。
  • Line the pots with pebbles to ensure good drainage. 在罐子里铺一层鹅卵石,以确保排水良好。
5 belongings oy6zMv     
n.私人物品,私人财物
参考例句:
  • I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
  • Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。
6 vigilant ULez2     
adj.警觉的,警戒的,警惕的
参考例句:
  • He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
  • The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。
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