我曾读到这样一个故事:英国某小站一位在铁路上工作了50年的叫汤姆的老人,他退休时,铁路公司认为对于他“50年中连一天都没有懈怠过”的出色工作应予以肯定,便委派一位爵士亲临小站主持退休仪式。汤姆谢绝了公司作为礼物赠送的支票,提出希望得到一件可以使他常能回忆起小车站快乐时光的东西——一节旧车厢。不用说,他得 I read the story of a man at an English station who has been working on the railway for 50 years. When he retired, the railway company believed that for him, “there has been no slack in a single day in 50 years.” Excellent work should be affirmed, we will appoint a jazz to visit the small station presided over the retirement ceremony. Tom declined the company’s check as a gift and offered to have something he could often recall from the station’s happy hour - an old compartment. Needless to say, he had to