活动    检索“上帝让你成为好孩子，就是对你的最高奖赏”的英文

killl

你是检索达人吗？你玩转搜索引擎了吗？

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下面是一则小故事，请检索出英文版本，首位给出答案者10财富奖励。提供线索或者检索技巧者也有一定奖励。无需加密，先到先得，以最后编辑时间为准。

1963 年，一位叫玛莉·班尼的女孩写信给《芝加哥论坛报》的西勒·库斯特先生，因为她实在搞不明白，为什么她帮妈妈把烤好的甜饼送到餐桌上，得到的只是一句“好孩子”的夸奖，而那个什么都不干、只知捣蛋的戴维（她的弟弟）得到的却是一个甜饼。她想问一问无所不知的西勒·库斯特先生，为什么她在家和学校常看到一些这样的好孩子被上帝遗忘了？
　　 十多年来，孩子们有关“上帝为什么不奖赏好人，为什么不惩罚坏人”之类的来信，西勒·库斯特收到不下千封。每当拆阅这样的信件，他心里就非常沉重，因为他不知该怎样回答这些提问。
　　 正当他对玛莉小姑娘的来信不知如何回答是好时，一位朋友邀请他参加婚礼。就是在这次婚礼上，他找到了答案，并且这个答案让他一夜之间名扬天下。
　　 西勒·库斯特是这样回忆那场婚礼的。牧师主持完仪式后，新娘和新郎互赠戒指，也许是他们正沉浸在幸福之中，也许是两人过于激动，总之，在他们互赠戒指时，两人阴差阳错地把戒指戴在了对方的右手上。牧师看到这一情节，幽默地提醒：“右手已经够完美了，我想你们最好还是用它来装扮左手吧。”西勒·库斯特说，正是牧师的这一幽默，让他茅塞顿开。
　　 右手成为右手，本身就非常完美了，是没有必要把饰物再戴在右手上了。西勒·库斯特由此得出结论，上帝让右手成为右手，就是对右手最高的奖赏。同理，上帝让善人成为善人，也就是对善人的最高奖赏。
　　 西勒·库斯特对自己的发现兴奋不已，他以“上帝让你成为好孩子，就是对你的最高奖赏”为题，立即给玛莉·班尼回了一封信。这封信在《芝加哥论坛报》刊登之后，在不长的时间内，被美国及欧洲一千多家报刊转载，并且每年的儿童节，他们都要重新刊登一次。

桃子

大掌柜，你一出来主持工作，我就觉得又有主心骨了。

killl

引用第1楼zhiyongtao于2009-12-21 21:08发表的 :
大掌柜，你一出来主持工作，我就觉得又有主心骨了。

我已经属于过去式了。历史注定前浪要死在沙滩上

cruelarrow

继续站个好位置，研究英文搜索

1994

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48ca336801009nxb.html
这个算吗？
Being Good Is Its Own Reward   (By Liu Yanmin)

In 1963, a girl named Mary wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune. She expressed that she did not understand why she had only been praised as a "good child" when she had helped her mother set up cookies on the table. On the other hand, David, her brother, who had not done anything and was always mischievous had received a cookie. Therefore she wanted to ask Mr. Kuester, the writer for the KidNews column in the Chicago Tribune, if God was really fair. Why did she see so many good children like herself being forgotten by God at home and at school?

In the past ten years, he had received thousands of letters from children asking questions about why God did not appear to reward good people and punish bad people. Whenever he came across these letters, he always felt very heavy hearted because he did not know how to respond to these questions.

At the time when he was perplexed as to how he should respond to young Mary's letter, a friend invited him to a wedding. He would be grateful for this occasion for the rest of his life, for it was at this wedding that he found the answer that would make him world famous.

He recalled the wedding as follows. After the priest finished the ritual, the bride and the groom exchanged rings. Maybe it was because they were both immersed in happiness or they were just too excited, anyhow, they made a mistake by putting the rings on each other's right hand. When the priest saw this, he humorously reminded them, "The right hand is already perfect enough. I think you should use them to decorate the left hand." Mr. Kuester said that it was this humorous response made by the priest that inspired him.

Being the right hand is already an extremely wonderful thing for that hand, so there is no need to add additional decorations to it. Equivalently, a moral person is then often ignored because he or she is doing well already. Later, Mr. Kuester arrived at this conclusion, "Letting the right hand become the right hand is the highest reward from God. Similarly, becoming a good person is also the highest reward that God has given to that person."

After reaching this understanding, Mr. Kuester was very excited. He immediately replied to Mary with a letter entitled, "Making you a good child is God's highest reward to you." Shortly after this letter was published in the Chicago Tribune, more than a thousand newspapers in the US and in Europe reprinted it. After that, it was reprinted each year during the Children's Festival.

Not long ago, a Chinese person found this letter printed somewhere. After reading it, he left a message on the Chicago Tribune homepage via the Internet that said, "There is an old saying in China, 'Doing good deeds is met with good rewards while being evil is met with evil returns. Just because the time has not yet come doesn't mean that there is no retribution.' I was once confused as to why an evil person never seemed to receive retribution, but now I finally understand. Making him an evil person is the punishment that God has given him."

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"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Roman 12:21)

"Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God." (3 John 11)

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iampuzzled

昨天过节错过好多......

neotsu

貌似是台湾人编出来的东西。

qisee

感觉是个假的东西，根本就没有这篇文章，Liu Yanmin翻译得象中国英语，译为：why God ignore all the kind要好些。

neotsu

引用第7楼qisee于2009-12-22 11:27发表的 Re:活动  检索“上帝让你成为好孩子，就是对你的最高奖赏”的英文版本 :
感觉是个假的东西，根本就没有这篇文章，Liu Yanmin翻译得象中国英语，译为：why God ignore all the kind要好些。

可以考虑发到英语沙龙作为改错题目

killl

引用第4楼1994于2009-12-22 09:25发表的 :
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48ca336801009nxb.html
这个算吗？
Being Good Is Its Own Reward   (By Liu Yanmin)

In 1963, a girl named Mary wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune. She expressed that she did not understand why she had only been praised as a "good child" when she had helped her mother set up cookies on the table. On the other hand, David, her brother, who had not done anything and was always mischievous had received a cookie. Therefore she wanted to ask Mr. Kuester, the writer for the KidNews column in the Chicago Tribune, if God was really fair. Why did she see so many good children like herself being forgotten by God at home and at school?
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非英文网址，非官方消息，至少也要有chicago tribune吧，这个表明了“ (By Liu Yanmin)”