早餐店的老赵短文★★★★★
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At the corner of my street there is a small breakfast shop. The owner, Old Zhao, has been there for nineteen years.
我住的街角有一家小早餐店。店主老赵在那里做了十九年。
He gets up at three, makes the dough, and starts the fire before most of us finish dreaming.
他三点起床，和面，在我们大多数人还没做完梦的时候就把火生上。
His prices are written on a board, and the board has not changed in five years. When flour became expensive, people asked him to raise them. He said no, because the students who come at six have only a few coins.
他的价格写在一块板上，那块板五年没变过。面粉涨价的时候，人们劝他涨一点。他说不，因为六点钟来的那些学生手里只有几个硬币。
Many customers do not speak to him. They look at their phones and leave. But he knows who is ill, who works late and who has just moved here.
很多客人不跟他说话。他们看着手机，然后走掉。可他知道谁生病了，谁加班到很晚，谁刚刚搬来。
A city is not made of its tallest buildings. It is also made of a light that is on at four in the morning, and of a man who remembers your order.
一座城市不只是由它最高的那些楼建成的。它也是由凌晨四点亮着的一盏灯、由一个记得你点什么的人建成的。