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简单生活 LIVE A SIMPLE BUT HAPPY LIFE Contents Warm up. Sleeping Pills 安眠药 Bob was having trouble getting to sleep at night. He went to see his doctor, who prescribed（开药） some extra-strong（强力的） sleeping pills. Sunday night Bob took the pills, slept well and was awake before he heard the alarm. He took his time（从容地,这里表示“按时”） getting to the office, strolled in （溜进）and said to his boss: I didnt have a bit of trouble getting up this morning. Thats fine, roared the boss, but where were you on Monday and Tuesday? Let’s go on reading A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Alumni 男毕业生 Highly established in one’s careers 事业有成的 turned into 转入 Let’s go on reading 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. an assortment of cups各式各样的杯子 porcelain陶瓷的 crystal水晶的 plain looking普通 exquisite精致的 Let’s go on reading 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. Source 源头 Let’s go on reading Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each others cups. 杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子 Let’s go on reading Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in s