人常常会陷于幽暗的人生胡同不能自拔.
People often drop into a gloomy life and are unable to extricate themselves.
有个生活比较潦倒的销售员,每天都埋怨自己"怀才不遇,命运在捉弄他".
There once was a poor and frustrated salesman complaining every day that there was no platform for him to display his ability and the fate was often pulling his legs.
圣诞节前夕,家家户户张灯结彩,充满佳节的热闹气氛.他坐在公园里的一张椅子上,开始回顾往事.去年的今天,他也是孤单一人,以醉酒度过他的圣诞节,没有新衣,没有新鞋,更甭谈新车子,新房子.
At Christmas Eve, every family decorated their houses with lanterns and streamers and it was very festive everywhere. But he was alone sitting in a bench in a park and recalling the past. It was on the same day last year when he was also alone drinking his Christmas day away, without new clothes, new shoes, let alone a new car and a new house.