双语故事：征服挑战

My friend Jerry was one of the mostpositive people I had ever known. He was always in a good mood and always hadsomething encouraging to say.

我的朋友Jerry 是我认识的朋友之中最乐观的人之一。他总是正能量满满，还总是去鼓励别人也正能量满满。

He was a manager at a restaurant. If hisemployee had a bad day, Jerry always helped him to look on the positive side ofthe situation.

他是一家餐厅的经理。倘若他的手下那天有什么不顺心，他总是帮助他们找到不顺心里面包含的积极要素。

Jerry‘s attitude truly amazed me. So oneday I asked him: „How can you be so positive all the time?“. He replied: „Yousee, every morning I tell myself, that I have two choses for that day – to bein a good mood or in a bad. I choose the good one. And when something wronghappens, I can be sad and angry or I can learn from it instead. I choose tolearn. Thus I choose the positive side of life“. I said: „It is not that easy“.He replied: „Yeas it is. Life is all about choses. You can choose how people orsituation will affect your mood, your life“.

Jerry的人生态度着实让我惊奇。我于是有天问他，你怎么能如此天天的保持乐观呢？他回答说，你看，你每天早晨起来有两个选择，一个是春风满面，一个是拉一张驴脸。那么我会选择春风满面。当不好的事情发生时，我可以选择沮丧、愤怒，也可以选择从中学到什么。我选择从中学到什么。你看，我就是这样，只选择积极的那一面。我回嘴说，好像不那么简单啊。他说，是，确实不那么简单。生活和生命就是一种选择。人们和环境如何影响你完全是个人的选择问题。

One morning Jerry left the restaurant‘sback door open and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. He tried toopen the safe, but his hands shaked due to nervousness and he slipped off thecombination. So the robbers shot him. Fortunately, Jerry was quickly found andbrought to the nearest hospital. After many hours of surgery and long intensivecare, Jerry was released home.

一个早上，Jerry忘了关餐厅的后门，以至于被三个持械的抢犯堵在了餐厅内。他试图打开保险柜，但是由于太紧张了，以至于保险柜滑落到了地上。犯罪分子开枪射中了他。幸运的是，人们很快找到了Jerry并且快速的把他送我最近的医院。在长达数小时的手术后和很长一段时间的修养后，Jerry返回了家里。

When I met him, I asked, what were histhoughts durign the robbery. „I thought that I should have locked the backdoor“, he replied. „Then, when I laid on the floor, I remembered about mychoses in this case: a chose to live and a chose to die. I chose to live.“

我见着他的时候问他，面对那场恐怖的抢劫，他当时怎么想。“我觉得，我应该把后门锁好的”他说：“然后，当我躺在血泊之中时，我想起了，关于选择的哲学：是生还是死，我选择了生”。

I asked, if he were scared. Jerrycontinued: „When they wheeled me into emergency room and I looked at the facesof doctors, I got truly scared. I knew, that I need to do something. So whenthe nurse asked me, if I was allergic to anything, I replied „Yes“. Doctors andnurses stopped working as waited for my answer. I took a deep breath and yelled„Bullets“. They started laughing and I asked: „My chose is to live, operate meas I am alive, not dead“.

我又问他是否害怕。Jerry告诉我说，当我被推进急诊室，我看到医生们的一张紧张的脸，我确实害怕极了。我知道我得做点什么。当护士问我，是否对什么东西过敏时，我回答说：是的，医生。医生和护士于是停下来等我的答案。我深吸了一口气，大声喊到“子弹”！他们开始笑了起来，我请求说，我的选择是生，所以把我当活人来做手术吧，可别当死人。

Now Jerry is alive owing to skills of hisdoctors, however his amazing attitude played an important role too. I learnedfrom him, that every day we should choose to live fully no matter what.

现在Jerry依靠医生们高超的医术活了下来。然而要知道他令人钦佩的态度帮了大忙。我跟他学到的道理是，我们应该选择活着，无论面对怎样的境遇。