英語溫馨夜讀I PART2 01 The Rewards Of A Good Deed

[00:00.97]Chain Of Love 真情的紐帶 [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 善有善報 [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.

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