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Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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真题还原
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “Patience is usually
not a good strategy, so we (people) should take action now rather than later”.
Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
范文:
Patience is either a good strategy of waiting and hoping, or a bad one of
losing time and opportunities. Under different circumstances, more often than
not we should wait and hope in order to achieve, but sometimes it is better for
us to act immediately before "golden" opportunities are lost forever. At best,
patience is wisdom; and at worst, it is laziness in the abscence of courage.
Being a great capacity associated with wisdom, patience usually a good
strategy. Since most great achievements require time, patience may be regarded
as a form of wisdom which is essential to successfully managing many things, big
and small. Generally speaking, that wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and
hope. Like farmers, for instance, we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap
the same day, and that we should keep things going with hope, particularly when
the going is hard and slow. Also in social life, without patience we at heart
cannot work together efficiently with other people and society cannot function
at all in civil order. To paraphrase the wisdom of an old Chinese saying : "lack
of patience in small matters can create havoc in great ones".
Nevertheless, patience has its limits; being taken too far, it goes beyond
laziness to become cowardice. Hence, it is not always realistic to believe that
all good things in the world come to us just because we wait long enough,
refusing to know what on earth we are hoping for. Indeed, patience must be
founded on realistic hope and it is not a virtue, provided that it is not out of
necessity. That is to say, patience may become a bad strategy if it is passive,
which means not taking right action in the right place at the right moment.
Ironically, patience ought to be understood as the quality of being active, or a
form of action, which demands courage and force so that time is not hopelessly
lost. Far from being lazy and cowardly, we should not hesitate imprudently and
wait passively but should rather take quick action in the right direction now
rather than later, considering that "time and tide" shall wait for no lazy
people.
Accordingly, the wise policy is to seek patience and action in equal
amounts. Patience alone without wisdom does not lead to great achievements,
whereas hasty actions are seldom wise and often doomed. We may believe that
laziness along with cowardice is a bad strategy, and we should also know that
the wisdom of patience is doing something else in the meantime and not waiting
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:23:14