Tom liked watching TV when he was ten. He watched TV at least five hours everyday. He was always late for school because of this.

One day, he found a pair of special glasses on his table. He also found a message saying “With these you can see time”.

The boy decided to have a try. He put on the glasses and looked at his brother. He saw a big box of flowers on the top of his head. When he looked at his parents, he also saw the flowers. The flowers were very beautiful. Then he looked at himself from the mirror. He saw the flowers, too. But his flowers went to the mouth of the television. The mouth was so big that his flowers became fewer and fewer.

At last, he learnt that watching TV was a waste of time. He could learn nothing from it. He decided he would never let the television eat his time again.

Jaime, a new immigrant（移民）of the USA, was going to watch his daughter's first show in a school play. His daughter, Carol, was five years old. She was a student at the local public school. Carol did not have a very big role in the school play. She was just playing a rain cloud in a play about the drought in California. Carol had just one line. Her line was, "I am sad enough to cry about how dry the state is."

Jaime and his wife made sure to arrive early so that they could get a good seat to watch the show. They found seats in the front row. Before the show began, the schoolmaster made an introductory speech. The speech was about how hard the students and teachers worked together to make the play possible. At the end of the speech, the schoolmaster said, "Let's give the school staff a hand".

Jaime, whose English was not very good, stood up when the schoolmaster said this. He knew that when people said "to give someone a hand" they meant they needed help. Jaime always wanted to help, especially at his daughter's school. Jaime thought maybe they needed help backstage.

Jaime's wife put her arm in front of her husband. "Where are you going?" she asked in a low voice. "They need a hand," Jaime replied. His wife explained that "to give someone a hand" could also mean to applaud（鼓掌）someone. When you applaud someone you clap your hands（拍手）after their performance. You are not supposed to stand up and try to help others. "They don't need help. They just want us to clap," Jaime's wife explained. Jaime felt a little embarrassed. He sat back down and began clapping along with the rest of the audience.

Jaime thought to himself that someone needed to give the English language a hand. How could one phrase mean two different things? He meant the English language needed help.

【推荐3】When Isaac Theil let a sleepy stranger take a little catnap on his shoulder, it was because ＂I simply remembered the times my own head would bop on someone’s shoulder because I was so tired after a long day, ＂he said to Tova Ross of Tablet Magazine.

Another subway rider was so struck by Theil’s nonchalant(若无其事的，冷淡的) empathy that he snapped a picture and put it on Reddit, from which it was then posted to Facebook. One redditor wrote, ＂Heading home on the Q train yesterday when this young black guy nodded off on the shoulder of a Jewish man. The man didn’t move a muscle and just let him stay there. After a minute, I asked the man if he wanted me to wake the kid up, but he shook his head and responded, ‘He must have had a long day, let him sleep. We’ve all been there, right? ‘＂

Theil himself has been completely surprised at the attention he’s received for his small act of kindness, as the photo has been shared over 20, 000 times on Facebook.

＂There is only one reason that I didn’t move, and let him continue sleeping, and that had nothing to do with race. He was simply a human being who was exhausted, and I knew it and happened to be there and have a big shoulder to offer him. ＂

＂I would love for people to use this as a lesson to just be good to each other, ＂ Theil said to Tablet.