美丽的英语：A girl's smile 女孩的微笑

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　　大约十年前，我还在上大学，当时我在学校自然历史博物馆里实习。有一天，当我在赠品店的收银机那里忙活时，看到一对年迈的夫妇，推着一辆轮椅走了进来，轮椅上坐了个小女孩。
        　　About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working
as an intern at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while working
at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a
little girl in a wheelchair.
        　　As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of perched on her
chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She
was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.
        　　As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I
turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As I took the money from her
grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest
smile I have ever seen.
        　　All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful
girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new
sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college
student and brought me into her world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.
        　　That was ten years ago. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I
get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little
girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.