本期话题:

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success." Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.

参考范文:

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I fully agree with the claim that there is no correlation（ A correlation between things is a connection or link between them.）between success and luck. Moreover, I
understand success to refer to one's ability to achieve the predominant（If something is predominant, it is more important or noticeable than anything else in a set of people or things. ） part of his goals in his
lifetime, which in turn leads to a correlation between success and income since the
accomplishment of such a natural goal as to provide a good future for your loved ones demands
the means. What is the simplest and most lawful way to earn enough to consider yourself a
successful person? To receive a good education and to find a good job. Both receiving an
education and making a career presuppose （If one thing presupposes another, the first thing cannot be true or exist unless the second thing is true or exists. ）one's readiness to work hard, and success without hard
work is simply not possible for the vast majority of the world's population.只有一个人做好了艰苦工作的准备，接受教育和创业才有意义。同时不经过艰苦工作的成功对世界大部分人来说都是不可能的 The reasons and
examples listed below will strengthen my point of view.

First of all, considering an education and a career as key factors of success, one will choose to
Pursue（If you pursue an activity, interest, or plan, you carry it out or follow it.） a degree from a college or a university. One wishing to be admitted to the university will
have to take several tests. It is doubtful that someone will be so lucky that knowing nothing, he
could pass the test with a high score. A low score means failure, and that test taker will not likely（If someone or something is likely to do a particular thing, they will very probably do it.）
be admitted. Therefore, in order to be successful, one should prepare for the tests and work hard,
because a good education will provide him with a good job and an opportunity to accomplish
some of his goals and dreams. In my lifetime, I have never met a person who could graduate from
a college without working hard.
艰苦工作意味着好工作和成功的机会，这样说，LUCK被作者理解成侥幸了。

Secondly, it is impossible to make a career if one is indolent（Someone who is indolent is lazy.） and lacking knowledge, at least in
developed countries. Luck plays no role in achieving this success. Even if someone was
unbelievably lucky enough to become a manager not being qualified enough, he will be asked to
resign in the near future because of his inability due to lack of knowledge and experience to make
right decisions. For instance, I used to work for a very small company owned by a friend. This
company was later closed because of bankruptcy（People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.）. The cause of bankruptcy was wrong strategies
and decisions made by the owner. After the failure, he went to a university and worked for
another company so that he could obtain experience and become a successful businessman.
Nowadays, he considers himself a successful person because he had turned into reality his two
biggest dreams of producing consumer goods of high quality and making charitable（A charitable organization or activity helps and supports people who are ill, disabled, or very poor. ） donations to
needy people.

In sum, as long as someone understands success as an ability to turn into reality some of his
dreams and goals, he will have to work hard because he will need money. And his chances to earn
that money will remarkably increase if he could graduate from a college and make a career. All of
these things are simply not possible without hard work. Luck has no place in such a scheme of
events.
作者将题目中的成功一词重新定义，以解释自己为什么认为成功和幸运无关。
通过重新划定概念，来方便自己的说理，表达。

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There is a humorous saying in English – “The grass is always greener on the other side of the
valley”. The saying is used ironically to point out that there is a temptation in us all to insist that
others are more fortunate than we are. This is nowhere more true than on the question of luck and
hard work. When faced with the “bad times”, we often find comfort in the idea that we are
special in our degree of misfortune. I feel that such an attitude is negative, and that it can bring
only further misfortune.
看别人的比自己好——自己不赢是不幸运，引出这种部分人的看法

Many famously successful people have begun from small origins. Mao was the son of a (modestly
prosperous) peasant; the explorer Captain Cook was so poor that, as a child, he had to work by
day and study by night; many of the affluent（If you are affluent, you have a lot of money. ） Americans of today are the children of the poor
immigrants of yesterday. Beethoven, it should be remembered, became deaf before the end of his
career. There are many, many more people who have also made genuine, though Jess spectacular,
successes against the odds.
很多成功的人，从苦难出

Within his own terms, a person who is born into poverty in India is a great success if he manages
to own a house in later life. Poverty cannot be reduced by merely complaining and blaming
others: no matter how guilty other people are, each individual must reach out to success for
himself. Indeed, some economists believe that the world operates by what they call “the rule of
the jungle”. They believe that in economics a person a1ways attempts to gain profit from his
neighbor: that given the chance the poor man would quickly make himself rich by trading to his
own advantage.

Also, it is presumptuous to judge another according to his or her apparent fortune. No man can
ever truly understand the sufferings of his neighbor. A man who appears comfortably rich may
have suffered elsewhere in his life - through the death of a loved one, for example. Retired
businessmen have often worked long hours in their youth. Surely, it must be wiser to respect
achievement than to deny that anyone has achieved good in the world.

To rely on notions（A notion is an idea or belief about something.） of luck - to believe that life is a kind of lottery（If you describe something as a lottery, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance. ） - is an attempt to escape reality.
Paradoxically, the only time a person can claim that luck is more important than work is when he
reflects on his own success. Because of that modesty, the great man then becomes even greater.
我喜欢最后一句话，作者似乎在说，之所以有人会说自己运气好才成功，是因为自己运气好，而这，又使这些人更加伟大。——说自己运气好只是种谦虚。

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