Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives. The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat.'
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy' s lap. The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!'
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. ‘You've done enough, you clumsy girl!'
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?' Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good.. Remember.....Just going to a place of worship doesn't make you a good person any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
MORAL : We make a Living by what we get; we make a Life by what we give.
【关键词】
1、 puddle (n.) 水坑
2、 emergency (n.) 紧急情况
3、 trip (vi.) 绊倒
4、 inexplicably (adv.) 费解地
5、 ridicule (n.) 嘲笑
6、 sympathy (n.) 同情
7、 transfer (vt.) 转移
8、 clumsy (adj.) 笨拙的
9、 on purpose (phr.) 刻意
10、 worship (n.) 膜拜
【译文】尿裤子
这是一间三年级教室.....有一个9岁的小孩坐在书桌前，突然间，他两脚之间出现一滩水，裤子前面湿湿的。他感觉自己的心跳都要停止了，因为他无法想象这是怎么发生的。这样的事情以前从未发生过，而且他知道，要是被男生发现了，这事会没完没了。要是被女生发现了，他这辈子都不会被理睬了。孩子感觉自己的心跳都要停止了；他埋下头暗暗祷告，“亲爱的上帝，这是一个突发事件！我现在需要帮助！五分钟后我死定了。”
他从祈祷中抬起头，看到老师来了，她的目光说明他已经被发现了。当老师走向他时，一位名叫苏西的同学正巧端来一个鱼缸。鱼缸里装满了水。苏茜在老师面前绊了一跤，莫名其妙地将一缸水倒在男孩的腿上。男孩假装很生气，但心里却一直在对自己说，“谢谢你，主啊！感谢上帝！”
现在形势急转直下，男孩不再是被嘲讽的对象，而成为被同情的对象。老师带他急忙下楼，给他临时换上健身短裤，并把湿裤子晾起来。所有其他孩子都在七手八脚地清理他桌子的四周。同情是美好的。但是，正如生活中所司空见惯的那样，本该是对他的嘲讽现在却转移给了别人 —— 苏西。她也想伸手帮忙，但他们要她出去。“你已经做得够多了，你这个笨手笨脚的女孩！”
最后，放学了，在等公共汽车时，男孩走到苏西身边，小声问道，“你是故意这样做的，不是吗？”苏西小声回应说，“我也曾经尿过裤子。”
愿上帝帮助我们把握身边每一次机遇，多做善事。记住.....只是去教堂做礼拜并不能让你成为一个善人，就如同一个人站车库里并不会使自己变成一辆汽车。
寓意：获得维持生计，给予升华人生。
