1、Very hesitantly I selected a tube of bluepaint, and with infinite precaution made amarkaboutasbigasabeanonthesnow-whitefield. At that moment I heard the sound ofa motorcar in the drive and threw down mybrushinapanic.IwasevenmorealarmedwhenI saw who stepped from the car: the wife ofSirJohnLavery,thec

2、elebratedpainterwholived nearby.“我遲疑不決地選了一管藍色顏料，然后小心翼翼地在雪白的底子上的畫上蠶 答案只是參考，請大家努力自學驚恐地丟下我的慌失措。 來者正是住在附近的著名畫家約翰萊佛利爵士的妻子。1Painting! she declared. What fun. ButwhatareyouwaitingforLetmehavethebrushthebigone.Sheplungedintothepaintsand before I knew it, she had swept severalfierce strokes and slashes of bl

3、ue on theabsolutely terrified canvas. Anyone couldseeitcouldnothitback.Ihesitatednomore.I seized the largest brush and fell upon mywretchedvictimwithwildfury.Ihaveneverfelt any fear of a canvas 呢!她大聲說道。多么有趣。可你還在等什么呢把畫 筆給我-大的那支。蘸起顏料，還沒等我緩過神來，她已經(jīng)揮筆潑墨在驚恐不已的畫布上畫下了有力的幾道藍色。誰都看得出畫布無法回擊。我不再遲疑。我抓起那支最大的畫筆，迅猛異

4、常地向我可憐的犧2布。”ThisbeliefinhardworkisthefirstofthreemainfactorscontributingtoAsianstudentsoutstanding performance. It springs fromAsianscommonheritageofConfucianism,thephilosophy of the 5th-century-BC Chinesesage whose teachings have had a profoundinfluence on Chinese society. One ofConfuciuss primary

5、teachings is thatthrough effort, people can perfectthemselves.這種對于勤奮的信念是促成亞洲學生成績突出3我已不再懷疑我最終會完成學業(yè) 所以很坦然地抓住了這次機會 ”她說。time and effort to think of 以存在都是因為曾經(jīng)有人花費時間和精力去思考它。And thinking does require time and effort.Itsacommonmisconceptionthatifapersonis gifted or bright or talented,wonderful ideas will flash spontaneouslyintohismind.Unfortunately,theintellectdoesnt work this way. Even Einstein had tostudy and think for months before he couldformulatehistheoryofrelativity.Thoseofus who are less intelligent find it astruggletoconceiveevenamoderatelygoodidea, let alone