托福作文范文：耐心策略

 　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “Patience is usually not a goodstrategy, so we (people) should take action now rather than later”. Use reasons and specificexamples to support your answer.

　　范文:

　　Patience is either a good strategy of waiting and hoping, or a bad one of losing time andopportunities. Under different circumstances, more often than not we should wait and hope inorder to achieve, but sometimes it is better for us to act immediately before "golden"opportunities are lost forever. At best, patience is wisdom; and at worst, it is laziness in theabscence of courage.

　　Being a great capacity associated with wisdom, patience usually a good strategy. Since mostgreat achievements require time, patience may be regarded as a form of wisdom which isessential to successfully managing many things, big and small. Generally speaking, that wisdomis summed up in two words: wait and hope. Like farmers, for instance, we need to learn that wecannot sow and reap the same day, and that we should keep things going with hope,particularly when the going is hard and slow. Also in social life, without patience we at heartcannot work together efficiently¹ with other people and society cannot function at all in civilorder. To paraphrase² the wisdom of an old Chinese saying : "lack of patience in small matterscan create havoc³ in great ones".

　　Nevertheless, patience has its limits; being taken too far, it goes beyond laziness to becomecowardice. Hence, it is not always realistic to believe that all good things in the world come tous just because we wait long enough, refusing to know what on earth we are hoping for.Indeed, patience must be founded on realistic hope and it is not a virtue⁵, provided that it isnot out of necessity. That is to say, patience may become a bad strategy if it is passive,which means not taking right action in the right place at the right moment. Ironically, patienceought to be understood as the quality of being active, or a form of action, which demandscourage and force so that time is not hopelessly lost. Far from being lazy and cowardly, weshould not hesitate imprudently and wait passively but should rather take quick action in theright direction now rather than later, considering that "time and tide" shall wait for no lazypeople.

　　Accordingly, the wise policy is to seek patience and action in equal amounts. Patience alonewithout wisdom does not lead to great achievements, whereas hasty actions are seldom wiseand often doomed⁶. We may believe that laziness along with cowardice⁴ is a bad strategy, andwe should also know that the wisdom of patience is doing something else in the meantime andnot waiting foolishly like cowards.

1 efficiently   

adv.高效率地，有能力地

参考例句：

• The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人给机器上油以使机器运转更有效。
• Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必须学会有效地分配资源。

2 paraphrase   

vt.将…释义，改写；n.释义，意义

参考例句：

• You may read the prose paraphrase of this poem.你可以看一下这首诗的散文释义。
• Paraphrase the following sentences or parts of sentences using your own words.用你自己的话解释下面的句子或句子的一部分。

3 havoc   

n.大破坏，浩劫，大混乱，大杂乱

参考例句：

• The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
• This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。

4 cowardice   

n.胆小，怯懦

参考例句：

• His cowardice reflects on his character.他的胆怯对他的性格带来不良影响。
• His refusal to help simply pinpointed his cowardice.他拒绝帮助正显示他的胆小。

5 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

6 doomed   

命定的

参考例句：

• The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
• A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。