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There is a humorous saying in English – “The grass is always greener on the other side of the

valley”. The saying is used ironically to point out that there is a temptation in us all to insist that

others are more fortunate than we are. This is nowhere more true than on the question of luck and

hard work. When faced with the “bad times”, we often find comfort in the idea that we are

special in our degree of misfortune. I feel that such an attitude is negative, and that it can bring

only further misfortune.

看别人的比自己好自己不赢是不幸运，引出这种部分人的看法

Many famously successful people have begun from small origins. Mao was the son of a (modestly

prosperous) peasant; the explorer Captain Cook was so poor that, as a child, he had to work by

day and study by night; many of the affluent（If you are affluent, you have a lot of money. ） Americans of today are the children of the poor

immigrants of yesterday. Beethoven, it should be remembered, became deaf before the end of his

career. There are many, many more people who have also made genuine, though Jess spectacular,

successes against the odds.

很多成功的人，从苦难出

Within his own terms, a person who is born into poverty in India is a great success if he manages

to own a house in later life. Poverty cannot be reduced by merely complaining and blaming

others: no matter how guilty other people are, each individual must reach out to success for

himself. Indeed, some economists believe that the world operates by what they call “the rule of

the jungle”. They believe that in economics a person a1ways attempts to gain profit from his

neighbor: that given the chance the poor man would quickly make himself rich by trading to his

own advantage.

Also, it is presumptuous to judge another according to his or her apparent fortune. No man can

ever truly understand the sufferings of his neighbor. A man who appears comfortably rich may

have suffered elsewhere in his life - through the death of a loved one, for example. Retired

businessmen have often worked long hours in their youth. Surely, it must be wiser to respect

achievement than to deny that anyone has achieved good in the world.

To rely on notions（A notion is an idea or belief about something.） of luck - to believe that life is a kind of lottery（If you describe something as a lottery, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance. ） - is an attempt to escape reality.

Paradoxically, the only time a person can claim that luck is more important than work is when he

reflects on his own success. Because of that modesty, the great man then becomes even greater.

我喜欢最后一句话，似乎在说，之所以有人会说自己运气好才成功，是因为自己运气好，而这，又使这些人更加伟大。说自己运气好只是种谦虚。

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