Day 07 艺术家是靠天赋还是努力

不念不忘少年蓝@ 2022-10-10 12:46 142阅读 0赞

### 1. 今日话题 ###

Some people believe that it is the innate talents that make a person an artist, While others think that it is the efforts a person puts in that make the person an artist. What do you think and why?

### 2. 示范答案 ###

I think effort definitely outweighs talent along the way of becoming a successful artist.

When you look at famous arists like Mozart, Picasso, and Monet, on top of the talnets they are blessed with, they also spent thousands of hours on practising their skills. I'm sure you all have heard of many failing examples of child prodigies. They fail mostly because they are often complimented on their intelligence not on their effort. Thus they see sucess are a result of their talnets not their endeavour, and they don't continue to work as hard. That's why most of them just end up being mediocre or even less.

I think those people who attribute the success of other to their talnets do so out of laziness and jealousy. It's just a petty excuse for them to justify their underachievement in their lives.

### 3.核心词句 ###

(1) innate  天生的；与生俱来的

(2) outweight  比。。更重

(3) on top of  在。。之上；除了。。之外；掌握着

e.g. Can you put this on top of that pile ? 你可以把这个放到那一堆上面嘛？

e.g. On top of what you just said , I also want to add ..除了你刚才说的，我还想加一条。。

e.g Don't warry , I'm on top of it.  别担心，一切都在我的掌控之中。

(4) prodigy (有极大的音乐、数学、运动等天赋的)奇才；神童

(5)compliment  恭维，称赞。作名词使用的时候通常和pay连用，pay a compliment/pay comliments

e.g.  It's nerver a bad idea to pay women compliments.恭维女人永远都不是坏事。

(6) endeavour 努力。作动词使用时后接不定式， endeavour to do .

e.g. Lyn endeavour to become a lawyer one day.  Lyn为将来有一天成为一名律师而努力。