标题: 6月8日英语故事:Ignorance of the objective world [打印本页] 作者: 星期一 时间: 2010-6-8 00:23 标题: 6月8日英语故事:Ignorance of the objective world
read the story carefully and then write down what you get from the story to gain the score.
In the State of Lu, there was a couple of husband and wife, the former being an expert shoemaker and the latter a skilled hand in wearing taffeta. One day after consultations they decided to go to the state of Yue to earn a livelihood. The neighbors advised them not to go when they learned about their plan. "Don't go there," said one neighbor, "If you go, you can never earn a livelihood."
"We cannot understand you," interrogated the couple, "We have a find command of our art, how could we not earn our living with our work? Don't make a fool of us, please."
"Indeed, you have your skill," explained the man, "But have you taken notice of the fact that shoes are made for people and the silk taffeta are for hat-making? The people of Yue don't wear shoes, for they are barefooted. Again, they like to have their hair spread out over their heads and they never use hats. To whom should you sell your shoes and hats then?" Experienced though you are in the arts, yet the arts you have mastered are useless there."
After this explanation, the husband and wife now understood that anything that was not adaptable to the objective world would be useless and unpractical.
From this story, the excellent skill is not the most important, the key is to have certain ability in appropriate environment.作者: sumuxi 时间: 2010-6-10 16:01
One useful or successful person should do something following theenvironment,not only themselves~however,I think they can have a try~if they would like to extend the new field,maybe they will gain an excellent market!Everything has two sides~~作者: carl2009 时间: 2010-6-11 19:46
Anything that was not adaptable to the objective world would be unuseless and unpractical.