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What divine drink wouldst thou have, my God, from this overflowing cup of my life?

我的上帝，从我满溢的生命之杯中，你要饮什么样的圣酒呢？

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They waited for a time when he was fast asleep, and then they took the Water of Life from him, emptying it out of his cup and pouring salt sea-water into it instead.

有一天，他们等弟弟睡熟了，就把弟弟杯里的救命水倒到自己的杯里来。 然后，又在弟弟的杯里装上咸苦的海水。

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There was no time for them to conjure the most unlikely of all equalisers, but their heroic display finally brought the World Cup to life and warmed the hearts of the crowd on a freezing night at Ellis Park.

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But away from the usual images of the World Cup, another hidden life was taking place for those who followed the roadshow thousands of miles around Japan.

BBC: World Cup memory lane

He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.

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