Last year, I participated in the 29 Hope Star English Style Competition. Every day after school, we have to go to English class for training. When approaching the semi-final of Badong Division, I thought my English level was one of the best, so I didn't need to go to training again, so I secretly evaded several trainings. In the question-and-answer session in the semi-final, I could have won the first place as long as I answered the last question correctly. But just because I skipped several trainings and missed the content of this question, I only got the second place. At this time, I can't help but think of a famous saying that I often talk about but rarely do it: modesty makes people progress, and pride makes people lag behind.
The competition in the finals is more intense, because only winning the first place can make it to the provincial finals. In order to get good grades, the teacher specially invited the ace English teacher from Badong No.1 Middle School to tutor us. The teacher stipulates that I must attend the training on time every day. With the lesson of my first failure, I won't make the same mistake again. Every afternoon, I always arrive at the classroom first and always leave last. Even when I walk on the road and sit in the car, I will recite my speech and practice in front of the mirror at night. Everything comes to him who waits. After the second round, Zhang Jianglian and I tied. The key is the question and answer session. Who will stay on the stage of the star of hope and who will leave with regret? This made us and the audience nervous. "Player No.7, please go on stage!" With the announcement of the host, I generously walked to the center of the stage, greeted the judges politely, and won the unanimous praise of the judges with excellent play and free answers, and successfully advanced! This incident has benefited me a lot. I think not only in this incident, but also in other aspects, I should learn to be modest and learn more from the advantages of others.
in that competition, I not only personally felt the taste of success and failure, but also really understood the meaning of the famous saying "modesty makes people progress, pride makes people lag behind".
in the world, beauty exists everywhere and shines all the time. Rodin, a French art master, once said: What people lack in understanding beauty is not beauty, but the discovery of beauty.
One day last winter vacation, my mother and I went shopping together. As soon as I arrived at a hand-held cake shop, I smelled a fragrant smell, which made my mouth water, so I begged my mother to take out 4 yuan money to buy hand-held cakes. As soon as we entered the queue, two young women came behind. They were beautiful: long curly hair, white and tender faces, bright eyes, small red mouths and fashionable dresses. I really envy their faint fragrance when they are talking and laughing.
At this moment, a beggar grandfather with crutches came begging all the way. He handed a broken bowl to two young women and muttered, "Come on, give me something to eat." The two young women not only refused to give it, but also gave the old man a push. One of them even said fiercely, "Go and go, what a nasty old man!" " I saw grandpa shaking his hands, feeling dejected, limping away without a word. At this time, I saw a little girl in front who just wanted to eat a hand-grabbed cake. When she saw this scene, she ran after it and gave it to the old man. I was surprised when my mother said, "This girl has a beautiful heart." At first glance, the girl is dressed simply and looks unremarkable, but her behavior makes me admire. At this time, I only heard two young women behind me whispering, "What a fool." I suddenly became disgusted with these two young women. Suddenly, I realized a truth: the beauty of the inner world that is not easy to perceive is the real beauty, the eternal beauty.
It's been a long time, but that unremarkable girl has been imprinted on my mind. She is like a beautiful wintersweet in the cold wind.
Rodin's words
China is a country with a large number of articles, and Peking University is a den of humanities. The two are closely related. If we meet by chance, Peking University will surely become the cradle of writers. The period of the May 4th Movement is a concrete example, and it is a vivid example in recent decades. In the literary world of China in these two periods, Peking University people are full of stars. I think people will admit this fact.
In recent years, I have been really busy. Gone are the "golden age" when I had spare time to read some literary works after teaching and administrative work as in the 195s. Fortunately, however, I am not a lazy Chinese. In the gap between "internal worries" and "foreign invasion", I always find time to read some works by young students of Peking University. I almost read all the literary works published in the School Journal. Not long ago, I read "The Past of Peking University", which is an article that young people in the 197s, 198s and 199s recalled and wrote about Peking University. Some of them are fresh and lively in thought and fresh and elegant in writing, which really makes me feel refreshed. The ancients in China said: "The young phoenix is clearer than the old phoenix." I-if you allow me to have a seat in it-and we "old phoenixes" can't help but cast envious and admiring eyes on you "young phoenixes".
However, the ancients in China said: "Full of losses, modest benefits." I hope you can seriously understand the meaning of these two sentences. "Relying on the old and selling the old" is not enough, and "relying on less and selling less" is also worthy of young people's vigilance.
everything in the world will develop indefinitely. There are people outside, there are days behind, and the idea that "Lao Tzu is the best in the world" is absolutely wrong. You must have a deep understanding of the vast literature left by our ancestors. It is best to recite hundreds of old poems and dozens of ancient prose, so that they can be contained in your hearts at any time and whispered to you orally. This will be of great benefit to your literary creation and the improvement of humanistic quality. Whether you are teaching, researching, doing business, being in politics, or being a professional writer now or in the future, this is no exception. For excellent foreign literary works, we must also make some efforts and try to figure it out concisely. This is absolutely essential for your literary accomplishment. If you can do this, you will be able to integrate Chinese and western cultures, integrate ancient and modern times and create newer and more beautiful works.
There is a poem written by Zhu Xi, a great scholar in the Song Dynasty, which I think is very pertinent and meaningful. I will copy it to you now:
Young people are easy to learn when they are old, and
an inch of time is not light.
I didn't feel the dream of spring grass in the pond,
The leaves of the trees in front of the steps have sounded in autumn.
This poem has educational significance not only for young people, but also for us old people. The words are clear and picturesque, and there is no need for too much explanation. Time, for young people and old people, is fleeting and must be cherished. "An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold can't buy an inch of time." These are two profound words left by our ancients.
You are now in a "quiet dream in the Yanyuan Garden". In front of you is a Yangguan Avenue, which is covered with flowers. You should walk on this road for 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, or more, and make outstanding contributions to the people and mankind. I hope that you will never forget this dream of Yanyuan Garden, and always remember that you are a Peking man and a proud Peking man. This name will bring you beautiful memories, boundless courage, wonderful wisdom and distant vision. With these things, you will strive for self-improvement, be invincible and not waste your life. This is my hope and my belief.
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Gathering fireflies to study
Che Yin, born in the Jin Dynasty, was a rich boy, but later his family came down and became penniless. However, he can constantly strive for self-improvement in adversity.
Che Yin was very sensible and hard-working when he was young. Because he has to help his family during the day, he wants to use the long night to read more books and enrich himself. However, his family is poor and he has no spare money to buy oil and light a lamp. How can he break through the restrictions of objective conditions? At first, he had to recite the contents of books at night, until one summer night, he saw several fireflies flying and little fluorescent lights flashing in the dark. So he came up with a good idea: he caught many fireflies and put them in a small bag sewn with white summer cloth. Because the white summer cloth is very thin, it can give out the light of fireflies. He hung the bag up and became a "lighting lamp".
Che Yin studied hard and finally became a famous scholar, and later became a popular official. At that time, whenever any assembly or celebration was held, if Che Yin was not present, everyone would feel disappointed.
Voltaire, a French thinker, once wrote a meaningful riddle: "What is the longest and shortest, the fastest and the slowest, the most divisible and the most extensive, the least valued and the most regrettable thing in the world; Without it, nothing can be done; It makes all small things disappear, and makes all great things endless. " What is this? There are many different opinions and they are unpredictable.
A wise man named Chadige guessed right. He said: "the longest is time, because it is endless forever;" The shortest is time, because it makes many people's plans too late to complete; For those who are waiting, time is the slowest; For those who are having fun, the time is the fastest; It can be expanded endlessly or divided infinitely; At that time, no one paid attention to it, and then everyone expressed regret; Without time, nothing can be done; Time can wipe out all the people and things that are not worthy to be commemorated by later generations from people's hearts, and time can make all the extraordinary people and things go down in history forever?
what exactly is time? Time has different meanings for different people. For the living, time is life; For people engaged in economic work, time is money; For scholars, time is capital; For boring people, time is a debt; For students, especially middle school students, time is wealth, capital, fate and priceless treasure.
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We should cherish time
Count the past and present.