閱讀暖身 感人的事物比比皆是─忠誠老狗陪著主人至死不離的故事，一首音律優美、動人心弦的樂曲，或是一部難關重重，終至成功的電影。最近一部YouTube影片"The toughest job in the world"就讓不少人感動萬分。進入本文前，請先想想怎麼表達以下單字：A.機動性 B.發愣 C.無人情味的
A fake job was posted online and in newspapers. The people who answered the call were given a video cam style interview, and a well-dressed and well-spoken man greeted them. He introduced the job title as director of operations, but explained that the job content was much more than that and it included factors such as (A)mobility and labor-intensive tasks.
網路和報紙上刊登了一份虛構的招聘啟事。前來應徵的人，由一位口才好且穿戴整齊的男士，使用網路攝影機來進行面試。他介紹這個職位頭銜為「營運總監」，並且解釋這份工作還包括了機動性和大量的體力勞動。
The employer then furthered explained that commitments were 7 days a week and there would be no rest periods. One could only eat when their co-workers had finished their meal. The job was best if they had a degree in finance, medicine and the culinary arts. One could not take Christmas, Thanksgiving or any of the holidays off, it was a 365-day commitment, and also there was no pay.
這位僱主更進一步的指出，這是一份每周工作7天，沒有休息時間的工作。你的同事吃完飯，你才能吃。如果你具備金融，醫藥和烹飪藝術的學歷對這份工作最適合。聖誕節，感恩節跟任何重要節日都不能休息。這是一份365天的工作，而且還沒有薪水。
This (B)dumfounded of the applicants and they started to challenge the employer. The fact it was an impossible task and also (C)inhumane to treat a person in this way. But the employer then paused and said, “What if I told you that 100 million people already hold this job, they’re called moms.”
這些條件讓前來面試的人感到驚訝無比，他們開始向這位先生抱怨。因為這是一份不可能而且枉顧人性的工作。可是這位先生突然停下來，然後說：告訴你，這份工作已經有一億個人在做了。他們被稱為「母親」。
Their hostility suddenly changed to an emotional one with some laughing it off and some (1)shedding a tear, maybe coming to realize that being a mother really is the toughest job in the world. It was a video that seeks to remind us of the greatness of mothers around the world.
這些原本充滿敵意的人突然情緒一轉，有些當作玩笑的笑了一下，有些深深的感動到流淚。他們可能領悟到當一個媽媽真的是世界上最難的一份工作。這部影片主要是讓人瞭解到世界上的每一個媽媽是多麼的偉大。
The origins of Mother’s Day date back to 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia. A loving daughter, Jarvis wanted to honor her mother upon her mother’s death in 1905. She felt adult Americans had abandoned their respect towards their caregivers and this made the ambition ever stronger. By 1911, Mother’s Day became a widely celebrated day all over the States and in 1914. The President of the United States granted the holiday official status with it being celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Many countries around the world soon (2)followed suit.
母親節的由來可以追溯到1908年，安娜‧加爾薇思在美國西維吉尼亞州的格瑞夫頓為她的母親舉行悼念會。安娜的母親在1905年去世。為了紀念母親，並且有鑒於美國的成年人缺乏對他們關照者的感恩之心，在她大力推廣之下，1911年美國各州普遍都有了母親節的慶祝活動。1914年美國總統更將母親節訂定為正式的節日，規定每年5月的第2個星期天為母親節。在此之後，很多國家也相繼慶祝這個節日。
Although she successfully made it an official day, she was rather disappointed at how commercialized the holiday ended up becoming. So on Mother’s Day remind yourself that its importance is not in the giving of gifts but in the strength of love. Love is something that material objects cannot replace.
她雖然成功地讓母親節成為一個正式的節日，可是她對這個節日被商業化感到非常的失望。所以母親節時，要提醒自己，愛比禮物還可貴，因為物質永遠也無法取代對母親的愛。
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