Learning: a Lifelong Career
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind.①Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment.② Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and reliable warrant of success in times of uncertainty.
Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be a never ending process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast, to cease learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. What’ s worse, the animal instinct dormant deep in our sub-conscious will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization.③ Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.
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行文点评
好文妙译
学习:一生的事业
词汇斟酌
inexhaustible a. 无穷无尽的
incessantly ad. 不断地,不停地
warrant n. 授权令,(正当)理由,根据;vt. 证明…是正当的
fallacy n.谬误,谬论
cradle n. 摇篮,发源地
dormant a. 蛰伏的,休止的,匿名的
strangle v. 扼杀,抑制,压制
stagnation n. 停滞
fossilize vt. 使成化石,使陈腐
佳句临摹
①【注释】As A is to B, so is C to D . A之于B就如同C之于D一样
【临摹】As water is to the fish, so is book to the human being.书之于人类就如同水之于鱼。
②【注释】本句用了比喻的手法将fuel“燃料”比做能量,使行文更加生动,比喻法是写作中的常用手法,为文章增色添加亮点。
【临摹】He doesn’t have an idea of his own. He just parrots what other people say.他没有自己的观点,只会鹦鹉学舌。
③【注释】or even worse 或甚至更糟糕,这是一种递进的表达方法。
【临摹】Some people lived in a completely wrong way: they waste money and time, and even worse, they don’t realize their mistakes yet. 有些人以一种极为错误的方式活着,他们浪费着金钱和时间。更为糟糕的是,他们还没有认识到他们做错了。
思如泉涌
There is no royal road to learning. 书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。

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