谁动了我的奶酪（英文精华版）

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谁动了我的奶酪（英文精华版）

作者：evelyn 来源：沪江交流学习版

谁动了我的奶酪（英文精华版）
这本讲述个体定位和自我追求的寓言小故事曾经引发中国铺天盖地的“奶酪”热，尤其是生活在后工业化城市体系中的新一代社会群体，甚至将其视为在组织中实现自我价值的秘诀。那么，如何看待我们自己的“奶酪”？希望大家能就此问题多多讨论。


Who Moved My Cheese ...

"Who Moved My Cheese?" ... a book by

Spencer Johnson, M.D.


Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived four little characters that ran through a Maze looking for Cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Two were mice named "Sniff' and "Scurry." And two were little-people, the size of mice, who looked and acted a lot like people do today. Their names were "Hem" and "Haw."

As they ran through the Maze, they all finally found the Cheese at Cheese Station "C." When Sniff and Scurry arrived at Cheese Station C each day, they took off their running shoes, tied them together, and hung them around their necks so they would be ready. However, when Hem and Haw arrived, they put their running shoes away, as they believed they would not need them for a good while.

Finding Cheese was important to the little-people although each had their own idea of Cheese, depending upon their tastes. For Hem, it meant being a "Big Cheese" living in a mansion atop Camembert Hill. For Haw, it was having a loving family in a cozy cottage on Cheddar Lane.

Hem and Haw made themselves at home at Cheese Station C and became very comfortable. They even wrote sayings on the wall and drew pictures of Cheese around them. One read:

"Having Cheese Makes You Happy"


Then one day Sniff and Scurry arrived at Cheese Station C to find the Cheese wasn't in its usual place. They sniffed and scurried around until they decided the Cheese must be somewhere else. So they scurried out into the maze to look for new cheese. The situation had changed, so Sniff and Scurry changed.

Later, Hem and Haw arrived at Cheese Station C and were startled. "No Cheese?" "No Cheese?" Hem yelled. "Who Moved My Cheese?" he demanded. "Who Moved My Cheese?" Then Hem put his hands on his hips and his face turned red as he shouted at the top of his voice, "It's not fair!"

Everyday the little-people went back Cheese Station C ... where the Cheese used to be. And they demanded to know, "Who Moved My Cheese?" Because Cheese was important to them, the little-people spent a long time trying to decide what to do.

Sniff and Scurry, on the other side of the coin, had quickly moved on... but Hem and Haw continued to hem and haw. Timed passed and they became weary. They had not had any Cheese for a long time.

Hem demanded, "Why did they do this to me? What's really going on around here?" Haw said, "Hem, why don't we stop analyzing the situation so much and just go and find some New Cheese?" "Oh no," Hem said. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this."

Finally, one day Haw saw what Hem was doing and laughed at himself. "Look at us," he said. "We keep doing the same things and wonder why it doesn't get better for us." He looked around for his running shoes. When he found them, he put them on. Hem asked, "You're not going out into the Maze are you? What if you don't find any Cheese out there?" Haw wrote on the wall:

"If You Do Not Change

You Can Become Extinct"


Then, Haw stuck his head out and peered anxiously into the maze. He felt afraid. So he wrote a saying on the wall, then stepped back and stared at it for some time:

"What Would You Do

If You Weren't Afraid?"


Haw took a deep breath and went into the maze. For a long time, he found no Cheese and had his doubts. But then, as he explored the Maze, he began to imagine himself finding his favorite Cheese from Cheddar to Brie! The more clearly he saw the vision of New Cheese, the more real it became to him, and the more he could sense that he was going to find it. Even in the middle of his trials and errors, his confidence was growing. Then he stopped and wrote on the wall:

"Imagining Myself Enjoying New Cheese

Even Before I find it,

Leads Me To It!"