Your weekly English digest is here. 本周的英語每周一文，李安寫陳樹菊。質樸的文字裡有著溫暖的人性況味。
這篇文章只有190個字。李安的英文不浮誇，貴在誠懇與真情。嗑一個便當的時間就能讀完，最後一句一定要背起來。
...of all she has given away, her greatest gift is her example.
In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who
most affect our world
Chen Shu-chu
By Ang LeeThursday, Apr. 29, 2010
Chen Shu-chu is a seller
of vegetables in a stall in Taitung County's central market, in eastern Taiwan.
Out of her
modest living簡樸節省的生活, Chen, 59, has managed to donate nearly NT$10
million (that's $320,000) to various causes目標(此指行善), including $32,000 for a children's fund兒童基金會, $144,000 to help build a library at a school
she attended and another $32,000 for the local orphanage當地的孤兒院, where she also gives financial support to
three children.
What's so wonderful about
Chen's achievement is not its extraordinariness卓越的 but that it is so simple and matter of fact理所當然的 in its
generosity. "Money serves its purpose發揮功能 only when it is used for those who need
it," she told a newspaper.
And rather than bask in her
celebrity沉浸在知名度當中, Chen seems to dismiss the whole thing with a wave of her hand手一揮，好像沒什麼大不了似的, perhaps even with a hint of
irritation似乎有點不高興. "There isn't much to talk about, because
I did not enter any competition," she says. "I haven't really made
any huge donations."
She's planning to
establish a fund to help the poor with education, food and health care.
Amazing, but of all she has given away, her greatest gift is her example.她所帶來的最好禮物是她所樹立的榜樣
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