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物质生活的富裕,并不能一定带来幸福;反过来,贫贱却常成了有些人走向成功的阶梯。我在这里要讲述的,是在美国听到的几个可以发人深省的故事。我在美国曾遇到一位年过八旬的华人老太太。她全家是在40年代末从大陆移居美国的。她受过良好教育,因而也重视自己子女的教育。她向我回顾自己的过去,给我留下很深的印象。 “我们刚到美国时,身份还是‘难民’,主要靠政府的救济度日。我先生有一份差事,但收入微薄。我的一儿一女,都得在上学的同时,去从事力所能及的劳动,以补贴家用。
The affluence of material life does not necessarily lead to happiness; on the contrary, poverty and poverty often form the ladder for some people to success. What I am going to tell here is a few thought-provoking stories I heard in the United States. I met a Chinese woman who was over eighty years old in the United States. Her family immigrated to the United States from the mainland in the late 1940s. She is well educated and therefore values the education of her children. She reminded me of my past and left a deep impression on me. ”When we first arrived in the United States, our status was still ’refugee’ and we mainly relied on government relief. My husband has a chore, but his income is modest. My son and I have to go to school and do what I can Labor to subsidize household use.