Đang chuẩn bị nút TẢI XUỐNG, xin hãy chờ
Tải xuống
Tham khảo tài liệu 'slow and steady wins the race“slow and steady wins the race”', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Slow and steady wins the race Slow and steady wins the race . Comment this sentence. The best illustration of this proverb is the old fable of Aesop about the hare and the tortoise. A tortoise which moves very slowly challenged a hare one of the swiftest of the animals to a race. The hare took it as a joke and after running a certain distance lay down under a bush and went to sleep thinking he had plenty of time to beat his slow competitor. The tortoise however plodded on steadily without pausing. He passed the sleeping hare and had nearly reached the goal before the hare woke up. The hare seeing his rival so far ahead set off at full speed but he had delayed too long and before he could reach it the tortoise had passed the winning post and won the race. The proverb and the fable are a warning to erratic and lazy geniuses and an encouragement to the ordinary man of average ability. Even a man of brilliant gifts cannot achieve much without steady work and perseverance and there have been many men of talent and even genius who have failed or at any rate not achieved the success they might have achieved owing to laziness or overconfidence in their natural ability. The English poet Coleridge is a good example he undoubtedly had high poetic genius but partly owing to a natural inability to persevere and partly owing to the habit he got into of taking opium he did very little perfect or finished work. The Ancient Mariner is his only great finished poem most of the rest are uncompleted fragments. He .
