英语专四作文：从错误中吸取教训

 专四题目：从错误中吸取教训

 

Some people think that we can leam good lessons from past mistakes while others say that we can leam nothing. What is your opinion about this?

 

专四范文：

 

Learning from Mistakes

 

We all make mistakes which are inevitable¹. What is worse is failure to con² own mistakes. While making mistakes is good, repeating mistakes is definitely not. Apart from correcting your own mistakes, we should learn from the mistakes.

 

You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you have made one. As soon as you start blaming other people, you distance yourself from any possible lesson that could be leamed from it. But if you courageously³ stand up and honestly say "This is my mistake and I am responsible", the possibilities for leaming will move towards you. Admission of a mistake, even if only privately⁴ to yourself, makes leaming possible by moving the focus away from blaming yourself and towards understanding. Wise people admit their mistakes easily. They know progress accelerates when they do. On the other hand, for many reasons admitting mistakes is difficult. This is why some people consider that they can leam nothing from mistakes, We are taught in school, in our families, or at work to feel guilty about failure and to do whatever we can to avoid mistakes. This sense of shame combined with the inevitability⁵ of setbacks when attempting difficult things explains why many people give up on heir goals: they are not prepared for the mistakes and failures they will face on their way to what they want.

 

In conclusion, we can and should leam good lessons from past mistakes in order to be more successful in our private and public lives. (251 words)

 

更多专四作文精彩句子：

 

1.Sometimes the best way to learn anything is to start out by making mistakes.

有时学习东西的最好方式是从犯错开始。

 

2.The more mistakes a person makes,the more they will have learned and the greater chance they will have of succeeding on their next try.

一个人犯的错误越多，他学到的就越多，他下一次尝试的时候成功的几率也越大。

 

3.The key, however, is to leam from your mistakes and never make the same mistake twice. Thomas Edison would have never invented the light bulb if he had not taken this principle to heart.

然而，关键是从你所犯的错误中学习并且永远不再犯同样的错误。托马斯·爱迪生如果没有记住这个原则的话肯定发明不出电灯。

1 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

2 con   

n.反对的观点，反对者，反对票，肺病；vt.精读，学习，默记；adv.反对地，从反面；adj.欺诈的

参考例句：

• We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
• The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票，协议被通过。

3 courageously   

ad.勇敢地，无畏地

参考例句：

• Under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the army and civilians in flooded areas fought the floods courageously, reducing the losses to the minimum. 在中共中央、国务院的正确领导下，灾区广大军民奋勇抗洪，把灾害的损失减少到了最低限度。
• He fought death courageously though his life was draining away. 他虽然生命垂危，但仍然勇敢地与死亡作斗争。

4 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

5 inevitability   

n.必然性

参考例句：

• Evolutionism is normally associated with a belief in the inevitability of progress. 进化主义通常和一种相信进步不可避免的看法相联系。
• It is the tide of the times, an inevitability of history. 这是时代的潮流，历史的必然。