每一个人都可以成为非常伟大的人，由于其他人都非常有用。你即便没大学文凭或造不出一个合乎语法的句子，也可以发挥你有哪些用途。只须有体谅的心、充满爱的灵魂就够了
马丁．路瑟．金
一件微不足道的小事（或许你做这类事时并无意识），会改变一个人的命
Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You dont have to have a college degree to serve. You dont have to make your subject and verb1 agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace2. A soul generated3 by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt4 down and helped the boy pick up the scattered5 articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden6. As they walked Mark discovered that the boys name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history, that he was having a lot of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend
They arrived at Bills home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then Mark went home. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then both gradated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited7 senior8 year came, and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk. Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. Do you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day asked Bill. You see, I cleaned out my locker9 because I didnt want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mothers sleeping pills and I was going home to commit10 suicide11. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life. 重点词语： *trip：大家都了解trip的意思是旅游，是名词。而在这里，trip用作动词，表示绊倒的意思。
* article：article有不少意思，大家容易见到的是文章、论文、报道等。本文里，article表示物件的意思。另外，article还表示货色的意思，当它用来指人时，就含有贬义了。
* break up：break是打碎的意思。break up在这里表示终止、破裂的意思。指男生与女友断绝了关系。另外，break up还有一个非常有趣的意思，表示大笑，是那种哑然失笑、忽然爆发出来的笑声。 * await：表示等待，此时与wait for同义。另外它还表示即将来临到身上的意思，如：death awaits12 all men的意思是死亡将临到所有人。 * locker ：锁柜、可锁的衣物柜的意思。
* mess：凌乱状况、凌乱的一堆等意思。在西方国家，假如有客到访，而房间正好比较凌乱时，要说一句excuse the mess，不然就是不礼貌的表现。
* store away：或store up，意思是把储存起来、储备。 Bill筹备自杀，所以偷偷攒了一些他母亲的安眠药。看来，Bill早已下定了自杀的决心。但Mark 不经意的友善行为改变了Bill 的决定，他决定不自杀了。可见，日常的一些事情对一些人来讲无足轻重，其次却可以改变别的人的命。让大家多做一些象如此大家称为 举手之劳的事吧！
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