英语温馨夜读I PART2 01 The Rewards Of A Good Deed
[00:05.02]Compare the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people,
[00:09.72]with all the existing human ratios remaining the same
[00:13.90]and consider our world from such a compressed perspective,
[00:17.82]the need for acceptance,
[00:19.97]understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
[00:23.07]So... Love other people like you've never been hurt.
[00:27.66]The Rewards Of A Good Deed 善有善报
[00:35.32]One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife
[00:40.89]entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia.
[00:44.80]Trying to get out of the rain, they came to the front desk
[00:49.08]hoping to get some shelter for the night.
[00:51.58]“Could you possibly give us a room here?”the husband asked.
[00:56.51]The clerk, a friendly man with a winning smile,
[00:59.97]looked at the couple and explained that there were three conventions in town.
[01:04.92]“All of our rooms are taken,”the clerk said.
[01:08.43]“But I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain
[01:12.68]at one o’clock in the morning.
[01:14.26]Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room?
[01:17.98]It’s not exactly a suite,
[01:20.06]but it will be good enough to make you folks comfortable for the night.”
[01:24.65]When the couple declined, the young man pressed on.
[01:28.48]“Don’t worry about me, I’ll make out just fine,”the clerk told them.
[01:33.52]So the couple agreed.
[01:35.59]As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk,
[01:40.84]“You are the kind of manager
[01:43.09]who should be the boss of the best hotel in the United States.
[01:47.30]Maybe someday I’ll build one for you.”
[01:50.25]The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh.
[01:55.29]As they drove away, the elderly couple agreed
[01:59.12]that the helpful clerk was indeed exceptional,
[02:02.29]as finding people who are both friendly and helpful isn’t easy.
[02:06.77]Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the incident
[02:11.30]when he received a letter from the old man.
[02:13.78]It recalled that stormy night and enclosed a round-trip ticket to New York,
[02:18.91]asking the young man to pay them a visit.
[02:21.65]The old man met him in New York,
[02:24.71]and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th street.
[02:28.76]He then pointed to a great new building there,
[02:32.14]with turrets and watchtowers thrusting up to the sky.
[02:36.10]“That,”said the older man,“is the hotel I have just built for you to manage.”
[02:43.10]“You must be joking,” the young man said.
[02:46.49]“I can assure you I am not,”said the older man,
[02:50.18]a sly smile playing around his mouth.
[02:52.94]The older man’s name was William Waldorf Astor,
[02:57.61]and that magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
[03:03.89]The young clerk who became its first manager was George C. Boldt.
[03:08.92]This young clerk never foresaw the turn of events
[03:13.29]that would lead him to become the manager of
[03:15.71]one of the world’s most glamorous hotels.
