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发表于 2009-12-21 21:42:35
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找到一段,不知是否吻合。只能看个大概。
这种活动挺有趣的。
Charlie Steinmetz was a crippled dwarf, but what he lacked physically he made up mentally. When it came to the subject of electricity, Steinmetz was a genius. No one in his day knew more about electicity than him.
Henry Ford realized this when he hired the man to help in the building of those massive generators and turbines that would run his first automobile plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Once everything was in place, the assembly line worked like clockwork.
Thanks to the electrical genius, cars began to roll off the line and profit began to pour into Ford‘s pocket. Things ran along smoothly for months.
Suddenly, without warning, everything ground to a halt. Ford Motor Company went dark. One mechanic after another was unable to locate the problem much to Ford’s frustration. Finally, he contacted the brains behind the system.
Steinmetz showed up and immediately went to work. He fiddled around with some switches and a gauge or two. He tinkered with this and that one, pushed a few buttons and messed with some wires. He then threw the master switch and wouldn‘t you know it? Lights blinked on, engines began to whirl, and things were back to normal.
Within a few days, Charlie Steinmetz mailed Henry Ford a bill for $10,000. Ford couldn’t believe it! He was wealthy, but paying such an exorbitant amount of money was out the question, especially for what appeared to be such a small amount of work.
He sent the bill back with a note attached, Charlie, doesn‘t it seem a little steep to charge me $10,000 for tinkering around with a few wires and switches?
Steinmetz rewrote the bill and sent it back. It read: For tinkering around on the motors $1.00. For knowing where to tinker $9,999.00.
汗。。。。网址没贴上来。
http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon.asp?SermonID=98821
中间一栏,前面的几段。
方法是中文故事中的人名“斯坦门茨”通过检索可得英文名为Steinmetz。
与dollar Ford 9999
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