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以下是小编整理的在对的人手里(In the right hands)的内容，读一下吧，也许恰好是你喜欢的那一篇。

I’ve been working in my backyard the last few weeks.

It’s part of a “keep-myself-busy” plan.

I am self-employed.

Well, I have lost my job.

So, the yard needs attention.

While cleaning up a corner of the yard, I found a tiny bottle.

It’s about two inches high and a half inch thick.

It looks like it has a cork in the top, but I think perhaps it was a glass stopper, like one in a perfume bottle.

Then, my mind begins to play with all kinds of possibilities.

I wonder who it belonged to and where it came from.

Was it a gift from a young man to his sweetheart?

I show it to my neighbour and challenge him with the idea.

“It’s junk!

Look!

There’s a piece broken on the top.

I threw it out,” he concludes.

But it’s not junk to me.

It’s still useful.

I like seeing it as a gift.

Not only the imagined one from a guy to his girl, but the gift I am given just because I have found it.

It can still hold something.

I’ll find a small cork and add a little colored water to it.

When I hold it, I imagine the hand that has thrown it away.

Junk?

The slight damage doesn’t mean it has lost its function.

It is just like me: I’ve been damaged, broken, but I am still useful.

God picked me up out of the trash pile, dusted me off and found something new I could do.

Perhaps writing was the thing I was meant to do all along.

Maybe, just maybe, I needed to be broken and thrown away in order to fulfill His plans for me.

So, next time when you pass by a lost soul, beaten down and seen as junk by others, remember that he or she is God’s vessel.

In the right hands, even a broken bottle is a treasure.

【助读词汇】◇cork n.

软木塞◇stopper n.

塞子◇perfume n.

香水，香料◇embodiment n.

具体化，体现，化身【参考译文】过去几周我都在后院里忙活。

这是我“让自己忙起来”计划的一部分。

我是自己的老板。

呃，其实，我是失业了。

因此，院子就显得需要照料了。

当打扫院子的一个角落的时候，我发现了一个很小的瓶子。

它只有两寸高，半寸厚。

看上去它应该有个软木塞，但我想应该是个玻璃塞子，就像香水瓶子配的那种。

然后，我开始想象各种可能性。

我想它是谁的呢，是从哪里来的呢，会是一个男子送给他心上人的礼物吗？

我把它拿给我的邻居看，告诉他我的想法。

“是垃圾。

看，瓶口这里有个缺痕，是我把它扔掉的。

”他草草地下了结论。

但是在我看来，它不是垃圾，它依然有用。

我喜欢把它看作一件礼物。

它不仅是过去某个我想象中的男子送给他女朋友的礼物，而且还是送给我的礼物，因为是我找到了它。

它还能装东西。

我会找来一个小木塞，再装点有颜色的水。

我拿着它，想象着那只扔掉它的手。

垃圾？

一点点破损并不表示它就没用了。

它就像我：我有缺点，遭受过打击，但我还有用。

上帝把我从垃圾堆里捡出来，拍去我身上的灰尘，给我找来别的事做。

也许写作是我一直应该做的。

也许，仅仅是也许，我得先遭破损并被丢弃，然后才能完成上帝给我的使命。

所以，下次当你从一个遭打击并被人视为垃圾的失意人身边走过时，请记住他或她是上帝的化身。

在对的人手里，即使是破损了的瓶子也是宝贝。

【人生启迪】每个人都有不得志的时候，但要记住那也许不是你的原因，而是你的伯乐还没有出现。

一定不要轻看自己。

保持你的自信，不断地完善并提高自己，这样的话，待你的伯乐出现的时候，你就会一鸣惊人。

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