Decisões apressadas podem resultar em consequências terríveis, mesmo em situações em que parece que não existe saída. Esta pequena história certamente irá lhe surpreender e fará pensar de maneira diferente sobre as dificuldades que surgem em nossas vidas.
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| What advice would you give? | Que Conselho Você daria? |
| In a medical school, a professor proposed the following situation to the class: | Em uma Faculdade de medicina, certo professor propôs à classe a seguinte situação: |
| — Based on the circumstances I am going to enumerate, what advice would you give to a certain lady, pregnant with her fifth child? Her husband suffers from syphilis and she suffers from tuberculosis. Her first child was born blind. The second died. The third was born deaf. The fourth is tuberculous and she is seriously considering aborting her fifth pregnancy. Which path would you advise her to take? | — Baseados nas circunstâncias que vou enumerar, que conselho dariam vocês a certa senhora, grávida do quinto filho? O marido sofre de sífilis e ela de tuberculose. Seu primeiro filho nasceu cego. O segundo morreu. O terceiro nasceu surdo. O quarto é tuberculoso e ela está pensando seriamente em abortar a quinta gravidez. Que caminho aconselharia tomar? |
| Based on these facts, most students agreed that abortion would be the best alternative. | Com base nestes fatos, a maioria dos alunos concordou em que o aborto seria a melhor alternativa. |
| The teacher then said to the students: | O professor, então disse aos alunos: |
| — Those who said yes to the idea of abortion, know that they just killed the great composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. | — Os que disseram sim a idéia do aborto, saibam que acabaram de matar o grande compositor Ludwig Van Beethoven. |
| Great projects, excellent ideas, are sometimes "aborted" when the people involved are faced with difficult situations. | Grandes projetos, excelentes idéias, às vezes são "abortados " quando as pessoas envolvidas se vêem diante de situações difíceis. |
| Everything, to be done well, takes time and requires perseverance, tenacity and enthusiasm. | Tudo, para ser bem feito, leva tempo e exige perseverança, tenacidade e entusiasmo. |
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| 12 | the | 7 | to | 5 | her |
| 4 | would | 4 | and | 3 | you |
| 3 | a | 2 | with | 2 | what |
| 2 | was | 2 | that | 2 | suffers |
| 2 | students | 2 | she | 2 | said |
| 2 | on | 2 | is | 2 | great |
| 2 | give | 2 | from | 2 | fifth |
| 2 | child | 2 | born | 2 | be |
| 2 | based | 2 | are | 2 | advice |
| 2 | abortion | 1 | yes | 1 | who |
| 1 | which | 1 | when | 1 | well |
| 1 | van | 1 | tuberculous | 1 | tuberculosis |
| 1 | time | 1 | those | 1 | third |
| 1 | they | 1 | these | 1 | then |
| 1 | tenacity | 1 | teacher | 1 | takes |
| 1 | take | 1 | syphilis | 1 | sometimes |
| 1 | situations | 1 | situation | 1 | seriously |
| 1 | second | 1 | school | 1 | requires |
| 1 | proposed | 1 | projects | 1 | professor |
| 1 | pregnant | 1 | pregnancy | 1 | perseverance |
| 1 | people | 1 | path | 1 | of |
| 1 | most | 1 | medical | 1 | ludwig |
| 1 | lady | 1 | know | 1 | killed |
| 1 | just | 1 | involved | 1 | in |
| 1 | ideas | 1 | idea | 1 | I |
| 1 | husband | 1 | going | 1 | fourth |
| 1 | following | 1 | first | 1 | facts |
| 1 | faced | 1 | excellent | 1 | everything |
| 1 | enumerate | 1 | enthusiasm | 1 | done |
| 1 | difficult | 1 | died | 1 | deaf |
| 1 | considering | 1 | composer | 1 | class |
| 1 | circumstances | 1 | certain | 1 | blind |
| 1 | best | 1 | beethoven | 1 | am |
| 1 | alternative | 1 | agreed | 1 | advise |
| 1 | aborting | 1 | aborted |
