The picture shows us a dialogue between a father and a son. The son told his father, “Dad, I’m a bit worried about disposing of nuclear waste”. While his father told him, “If you can empty the dustbin here you can do anything”. It reveals the importance of doing small things well before undertaking something big. There is also an old Chinese saying to go with this that a person can’t sweep the world before he can sweep his own room.
I agree on the point that it is of great importance for a person to do small things well before undertaking something big. First of all, doing small things well entail the qualities that needed in doing great things such as patience and ability of controlling time. For example, when we sweep our room, we need to manage our time and energy reasonably. Accordingly, if we sweep a bigger room, for example, a classroom with our classmates, we should learn how to cooperate and allot assignments as well. And a big advantage is that we can draw useful lessons from the failure of performing well because they didn’t cost a lot.
In another word, though these things seem trivial, they reinforce our manipulative ability and thus our understanding to the world. Therefore, we should not ignore the small things.
我昨天到您这儿来,半路忽然听到“救命”的呼喊呢?”
鲫鱼回答说:“我是东海龙王的臣子,不幸落到这里。您能够给我一斗半升水来救我活命吗?”我说:“好吧。我将要到南方去游说吴、越国王,正好引西江的水来救你,可以吗?”
鲫鱼听了,气得变了脸色,说:“我失去了正常的.生活条件,无法生存。现在我只要得到一斗半升的水,就可活命,您却讲这些无济于事的空话。等您从吴越引来江水,已经来不及了,还不如趁早到咸鱼店里找我呢。”
Dear Mary,
You said in your letter that many of your classmates wore fashionableclothes, but you couldn't afford them so you felt very depressed. There are dif-ferent views on people's clothes. The followings are my ideas:
Firstly, you shouldn't put too much emphasis on physical appearance.
Remember that the most important task for you today is to concentrate on yourstudies. No matter what you wear, you will really look your best when youcome out first in your examinations.
Secondly, you should understand that it is a fine virtue to live in fru-gality. Just as a famous saying goes, Frugality is the mother of virtue.
Since your family can't provide you with enough money to buy fashionableclothes, it is all the more necessary for you to try to lighten the financialburden of your family. And you will find the virtue of frugality benefit youa lot in your future life.
I hope you understand what I mean. Hope you will take a positive attitudetowards life and will be happy again when you read my letter.
Yours,
Anne
我们前面说过,庄子很穷,没米下锅时,记得监河侯的小官和自己有一面之交,就向他借米。
监河侯是个小气鬼,但也是个诡计多端的人。他推辞不掉,就说:“好呵,等此时候吧,我把封邑的租子收回来了,可以给你价值三百余的粮米,让你吃个痛快。”
庄子悠然坐下:“我刚才在路上听到一阵呼救的声音,找了半天,原来是一条小鲫鱼。它被什么人扔在车轮辗出的泥糟子里,它对我说它快要渴死了,先拿点水给它活命。我想呢,一点水只能救得一时,就答应它到南方游说吴越,让他们兴修水利,造一条渠把水引到这里来,你说我这个办法如何?”。
监河侯也趣:“那样还不如到干鱼滩上找它呢。好吧,我先拿点给你。”
忘了庄子拿了没有。不过庄子在另一个地方写道,大抵富贵圣贤们的接济穷人,都象个样子。
Dear all,
I am writing this letter to express my gratitude to my parents for teaching me to be positive and to be strong. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” is the opinion held by Aristotle. It is the experience of our forefathers, however, it is correct even today, including my parenting.
It is widely acknowledged that parenting, which can also be explained as family education, is of great significance in our character forming and manner acquiring. To be more detailed, setting good examples instead of just giving precepts is the greatest achievement of my parents. They not only taught me to think for the best and prepare for the worst; they taught me how. They not only told me the benefits of being strong in mind; they proved it. All those things require huge amount of time and work, but it’s worth it.
Without my parents’ contribution and education, I would never be who I am now. But most importantly, I would never be more gratitude to them than today.
Yours,
XXX
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