刘文勇GRE写作百日题库 Day 103

Day 103 The best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things

The best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

五问：

（1）为什么一些好主意可能来自于对普通事物的关注？你能说说原因吗？例如：因为普通事物蕴含了许多生活中的规律，这些规律容易使人产生灵感。

（2）你能举出一个具体的例子来说明重大的想法源自对人们可能已经习以为常的事物的额外关注吗？古代的或者现代的都可以。例如：本杰明·富兰克林著名的“风筝实验”，就是他观察常见的雷电交加的暴风雨天气而进行的尝试，证明了雷电与人工摩擦产生的电具有完全相同的性质。这样的人有什么样的特点、特质？例如：善于观察，对外界事物有好奇心，善于思考，富有创新精神。

（3）在前人未曾关注的方面是否可能产生绝妙的主意？你能举出一个例子吗？例如：屠呦呦和她的同事从青蒿中提取到了青蒿素。我们能否简单地认为，最好的主意“只”会来自对习以为常的事物的重新关注？

（4）保持兴趣是否容易？为什么有些人能够做到保持兴趣，而另外一些人却不行？例如：每个人的意志力不一样，兴趣带来的好处也不一样。我们应该朝什么方向努力或者培育下一代？培养和保护他们对未知世界的好奇心好不好？激发他们对已知事物的好奇心好不好？

（5）你觉得改善现有的环境和发现全新的领域哪一个更重要？还是同样重要？为什么？

翻译练习：

兴趣能使你对一门专业的学习更加精细且更加深入，由此使你掌握一门更扎实的专业知识，而对专业知识的精通（此处可尝试使用 which引导的非限制性定语从句）将会是未来工作中的一件利器。苹果公司的创始人乔布斯，曾在大学中对各种字体（这并非他的专业）十分感兴趣并且旁听了相关课程；而他未曾预料到的是，从这门课上学到的字体知识居然成为了日后给他带来巨大成功的麦金塔操作系统的核心卖点。

参考答案：

Interest can motivate you to pursue a major course in a more profound and more meticulous manner, thereby enabling you to acquire a more solid professional knowledge, which would be a strong and powerful tool in handling your future job. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple in the United States, was once so interested in different kinds of scripts, which was not his major, that he listened to classes about it during college, and what he doesn't predict is that the knowledge about the script that he learned from these classes becomes the kernel selling point of Macintosh system, bringing him great success.