【前言】

中国科学技术大学商学院MPA系列教材《MPA&MBA研究生英语教程》，由陶伟老师编著，中国科学技术大学出版社出版。

本教材适用于工程类硕士研究生以及各类研究生课程进修班学员。全书包括10个学习单元和2个复习单元。突出语言实用性，强调语言运用能力的培养，同时注重语言基本既能的训练和巩固。

【写作要求】

40分钟内，完成题意要求的文章内容，不得少于150字。

行文应尽量：段落明晰，表意清楚，语法准确，用词优美。

P 18 . Assignment 1.

教材第18页，作文题1：

Use one or two examples in your work or life to illustrate how outlook affects performance. 用工作、生活中的一、两个例子，阐述‘观念如何影响行为/表现’。

【Possible Version One】

Don’t worry about failing.

别害怕失败

For a lot of people, the word “failure” carries with it a feeling of coming to an end, but for the successful ones, who would always look on the bright side with reason, failure is just a beginning, a seed of hope.

对于许多人来说，“失败”这个词总让人有种穷途末路的挫败感；但对于那些成功者，那些善于用理性积极的态度面对问题的人来说，失败不过是个新的开始，是希望的种子。

One leader at work said to me once, “a mistake is just another way of doing things. If I have a secret of leadership, it is to make as many mistakes as quickly I can in order to learn.” Then, he recalled Harry Truman’s famous saying: “Whenever I make a bad decision, I just go out and make another one. ”

我单位的一位领导曾这样对我说：“犯错误，只是做事的另一种方式而已。如我说我有什么领导秘诀的话，那就是尽快地多犯错误，以便尽早吸取教训。”他还引用了哈里.杜鲁门的一句名言：“我每次做出糟糕的决策后，一定会尽快走出来，另寻新策”

The lesson here, understood by these optimists, is that failure equals learning. While we can’t say that they exactly welcome failure, they are uniform in their ability to profit from it. They use the healthy energy coming from failure to reach higher goals. Almost every “false step ” is regarded as an opportunity and not as the end of the world.

乐观的人认为：失败等于学习。并不是说他们欢迎失败，而是，他们总能从失败中获得教益。他们从失败中汲取正面向上的力量，去达到更高的目标。他们把“每次挫败”看做一次机遇，而非世界末日。

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【Possible Version Two】

Never give up.

永不言败

Ray Lee, my high school football team leader, is one of the most positive, ‘up’ people I’ve ever seen in my life and the person whom I admire deeply in my heart.

李雷，我高中足球队的队长，是我见过最积极向上、永不言败的人，也是我打从心里佩服的人。

That was our final match in the regular season. Our opponent was the defending champion. At the beginning of the match, our team gained the upper hand, the first goal, and everyone was so excited. However, we lost our strength and suffered a disastrous decline ever since, while the defending champion had a sequence of three goals. Incredibly, Ray’s response was full of

confidence: “Great! We are here to win. Now let’s focus on winning, rather than on not losing. ” 那是我们那个常规赛季的总决赛，我们的对手是上届卫冕冠军。刚开场那会儿，我们队占着上风，首先进了一球，每个人都兴奋极了。但从那开始，我们逐渐失势，随着对手连进三球，我们的士气一落千丈。不可思议的，雷却信心十足：“好极了！我们是为了胜利而来的。现在，全力以赴来打赢比赛，别一心想着怎么不输球。”

That’s Ray. He always shows a spirit of working towards positive goals, pouring his energy into the task, even the circumstances seemed a dead end, and never looking behind and making excuses for outside forces.

那就是雷。总是有股子劲儿，向着目标积极奋进，在艰难的逆境中亦全心投入，从不向后看，从不找借口。

We won the match.

我们最终赢得了比赛。

As people often say, “Attitude decides everything. A good attitude is a prerequisite leading us to the final success.

人言道：“态度决定一切。”积极的的态度，是我们成功的先决条件。

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【Possible Version Three】

Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way.

有志者，事竟成。

Where there is a will, there is a way. This statement means that if you’re really determined to do something, however difficult it might be, you will eventually find a way to do it well. The important point is that you must have the will to achieve success.

有志者事竟成。这句话的意思是说：如果你下定决心去做某事，不管怎样困难，你总会最终找到解决问题的办法的。关键是，你必须要有夺取成功的坚强意志。

On many occasions, people tend to exaggerate every minute obstacle, making the objective impossible to attain. I myself used to be like this. Easily got upset and frustrated when there was something unexpected. Easily tended to gave up when there was something seemed difficult. Lucky me, my parents corrected my behavior just in time and prevented me from making a bad habit of giving up halfway.

许多情况下，人们倾向于夸大工作中的每一个细小的障碍，让目标看起来遥不可及。我自己就曾是这个样子，稍有不顺就容易灰心沮丧，稍有困难就想要放弃。庆幸的是，我的父母及时纠正了我的行为，使我免于养成半途而废的坏习惯。

In reality, if we have the will to succeed, we can get rid of the obstacles and can achieve our goals. Many a famous man has the same experience. They have attained their status because they have had the will to overcome apparently insuperable obstacles.

实际上，如果人们有想要成功的意志，就能排除万难，达到目标。许多名人都有相同的经历。他们靠坚强的意志克服了看起来无法克服的困难，获得了他们现有的地位。

“Carve but give up halfway, even a decayed piece of wood will not break; carve without stop, even metal and stone can be engraved. “ From this, we can see that the main thing which one needs is a strong will. Weak-willed people never climb to the top. They crumble at the slightest use of force against them. Strong-willed people, on the other hand, will stand up against all odds and will make it a point to succeed ultimately.

“锲而舍之，朽木不折；锲而不舍，金石可镂。”由此可见，我们要成功主要是靠坚强的意志。意志薄弱的人永远不会攀上最高峰，他们遇到一点阻力就崩溃了。与此相反，意志坚强的人能够顶住一切困难的压力，坚持到最后的胜利。

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【Possible Version Four】

Keeping Optimistic.

保持乐观

Facing difficulties, different people take different attitudes. Keeping optimistic can bring us confidence as well as hope to overcome various difficulties in life, which is sure to result in success.

面对困难，不同的人有着不同的态度。保持乐观，能给我们带来信心和希望，去克服各种各样的困难，最后走向成功。

Take my experience for example. In junior middle school, I didn’t have a good command in

English, and I made little progress though I had devoted all my spare time to it. So desperate was I that I really wanted to give up. Thanks to my teacher, he encouraged me never accept difficulties in a passive way, but rather draw strength from them. As a result, I worked even harder than ever before. To my pride, my effort finally paid off and I caught up with my

classmates by the end of the term .It was optimism as well as my endless effort that led me to success.

就拿我来说吧。我初中时英语并不好，虽然花了大量时间，付出很多，但是进步却微乎其微。我沮丧得一度想过放弃。多亏了我的英语老师，他鼓励我：面对困难不能消极，而应越挫越勇。正因为他的鼓励，我比之前更加努力的去学习英语。令我自豪的是，我的努力终于有了回报，学期结束前，我赶上了班里的其他同学。正式积极乐观的态度和持之不懈的努力，才让我获得了最后的成功。

To sum up briefly, keeping optimistic plays an important role in our life and will bring us a

successful life. From my experience, I draw a conclusion that as teenagers of 21st century, we are able to overcome any problem to fulfill our ambition on condition that we can remain optimistic. ( we can face it with a positive and optimistic attitude. )

简言之，保持乐观，是我们最终成功的重要因素之一。回顾自身经历，我觉得：作为21世纪的年轻人，克服困难，实现理想的前提条件就是：保持乐观。

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Nowadays, we are living in a modern society with pressure and challenges. Under such

competitive circumstances there’s no doubt that optimism/keeping optimistic does benefit us a lot both physically and psychologically. It’s optimism that provides us with more courage to deal with the hardship in our studies and get through the hard time. With optimism, it’s easier for us to get along with others, which will make our life more enjoyable.

现如今，我们生活的社会充斥着压力与挑战。在这种竞争环境下，毫无疑问，保持乐观将让我们受益良多，无论是心理还是生理。乐观主义精神，鼓舞着我们直面困难，迎难而上。保持乐观，让我们与人相处更加和谐，生活更加美好。

【Possible Version Five】

A Way of Seeing.

看事情的方法/角度

“You’ve way changed. Before we were married, you were a caring man, ” my wife shouted at me once in a quarrel. “Since we’ve been married, you’ve become a couch potato and watches ball games more than watches me! ” “Very funny, ”I responded, “When we got married, you were beautiful. But now? Have you looked at yourself lately? I’m not the only one who have changed. ” “你变了。结婚前，你温柔体贴；自从结婚后，你就在沙发上生根了，看球赛比看我的时间还多！”一次吵架时，我老婆这般冲我吼到。“笑死人了”我回嘴，“刚结婚那会你美丽动人。现在呢？你最近照过镜子吗？变得又不是我一个。”

My father said to me after he knew that fight , “This hurtful, infantile argument illustrates that you two, instead of loving each other, were looking for flaws. The secret of lasting love is a way of looking. How we see our partners often depends more on how we are than how they are. Husbands and wives are not audience, but participant observers in each other’s life. Grow up, start loving. Don’t try to win in your marriage, win for your marriage.”

父亲得知我们吵架后，找我谈话：“这种互相伤害，又孩子气的争吵，说明你们不是在爱对方，而是在互相挑刺。爱情持久的秘诀就是看事情的方法。我们如何看自己的伴侣，往往取决于我们怎么去看，而非对方是什么样的人。夫也好，妻也好，都不是旁观看客，而应是对方生活的悉心观察员。成熟点，学会爱。不要绞尽脑汁想要在婚姻中赢得上风，真正要赢得的是你的婚姻。”

After this conversation, I finally got the old saying:” This law of lasting love instructs us to look with instead of for love. ” Now, my wife and I are living a happy, harmonious life.

谈话过后，我才终于明白了那句老话：“持久爱情的法则教导我们，要用充满爱意的眼神去看自己的伴侣，而不要用寻找爱的眼神去看他/她们。”现在，我和我夫人过得幸福又和谐。

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