研究生英语作文系列-第一单元范文

【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。

【约160字】

【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。

【约160字】