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我朋友的袓父从东欧来到了美国。在埃利斯岛安顿之后，到曼哈顿的一个自助餐厅吃东西。他在一张空的桌子坐下并等候服务。当然没有人理他。最后，一位女士拿着装满食物的盘子坐在他对面，告诉他自助餐厅是如何运作的。 “从那头开始，”她说，“只需去挑选你所要的。在另一头他们将会告诉你要付多少钱。” “很快我便知道那是美国运作的方式。”祖父对我的朋友说。 生活就像自助餐厅，只要你愿意付出劳动，你就能够获得报偿，甚至能够获得成功。但是如果你想坐享其成，将一无所成。 Life Is Like a Cafeteria My friend1 s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how to a cafeteria worked. “Start out at that end，she said,“just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they'll tell you how much you have to pay. ” “I soon learned that’s how everything works in America，”he grandfather told my |
