生活就像自助餐

A friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern r settling down at Ellis went into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to get something to sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order.

一個朋友的祖父從東歐到美國來。在埃利斯島安頓下來後。他去下曼哈頓的一家自助餐廳吃飯。他在一張空桌子邊坐下，等待侍者拿來菜單。

Of course nobody lly, a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed him how a cafeteria worked.

沒有人來招呼他。最後，一位女士拿着滿滿一托盤食物走過來坐在他對面並告訴他自助餐廳怎樣進餐的。

"Start out at that end," she said. "Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay."

她說：“出去排隊等，到你的時候點你想要的東西，餐廳服務生會告訴你該付多少錢。”

"I soon learned that's how everything works in America," the grandfather told a friend.

他對一個朋友說：“接着我很快了解到這就是美國人的工作方式”。

"Life's a cafeteria here.

生活就像自助餐。

You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the can even get success.

你可以去要你想要的任何東西,只要你能付得起他們的價格。你也可以想要成功。

But you'll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you.

但是如果你什麼都不做等着別人能把它送到你身邊的話是永遠都不可能得到的。

You have to get up and get it yourself."

你必須主動出擊，自己去追求它。