2024年考研英語(yǔ)新概念必背作文精選太早和太晚
Lesson 60 Too early and too late 太早和太晚
Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilizedsociety. Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everythingwould be in a state of chaos. Only in a sparsely-populated rural community isit possible to disregard it. In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance ofunpunctuality. The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, haseverything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand. He is thereforeforgiven, if late for a dinner party. But people are often reproached forunpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine. It is hard forenergetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted tofinish a job before setting out to keep an appointment. If no accidents occuron the way, like punctured tyres, diversions of traffic, sudden descent of fog,they will be on time. They are often more industrious, useful citizens thanthose who are never late. The over-punctual can be as much a trial to others asthe unpunctual. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatestnuisance. Some friends of my family had this irritating habit. The only thingto do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests. Then theyarrived just when we wanted them.
If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortablyearly than even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may meanwasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have towait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration ofarriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station andbeing unable to get on it. An even harder situation is to be on the platform ingood time for a train and still to see it go off without you. Such anexperience befell a certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.
She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due,since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to missit and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeysto meet her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To herhorror he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for thepiece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of thejourney and gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into thestation at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take onmail, not passengers. The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that herfather could not have made such a mistake. The porter went to fetch one andarrived back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish andpointed out a microscopic o beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; thislittle o indicated that the train only stopped for mail. Just as that momentthe train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face,begged to be allowed to slip into the guards van. But the station master wasadamant: rules could not be broken. And she had to watch that train disappeartowards her destination while she was left behind.
準(zhǔn)時(shí)是文明社會(huì)中進(jìn)行一切社交活動(dòng)時(shí)必須養(yǎng)成的習(xí)慣。不準(zhǔn)時(shí)將一事無(wú)成，事事都會(huì)陷入混亂不堪的境地。只有在人口稀少的農(nóng)村，才可以忽視準(zhǔn)時(shí)的習(xí)慣。在日常生活中人們可以容忍一定程度的不準(zhǔn)時(shí)。一個(gè)專(zhuān)心鉆研某個(gè)復(fù)雜問(wèn)題的知識(shí)分子，為了搞好手頭的研究，要把一切都協(xié)調(diào)一致、組織周密。因此，他要是赴宴遲到了會(huì)得到諒解。但有些人不準(zhǔn)時(shí)常常是因?yàn)槠婞c(diǎn)所致，他們常常會(huì)受到責(zé)備。精力充沛、頭腦敏捷的人極不愿意浪費(fèi)時(shí)間，因此他們常想做完一件事后再去赴約。要是路上沒(méi)有發(fā)生如爆胎、改道、突然起霧等意外事故，他們是決不會(huì)遲到的。他們與那些從不遲到的人相比，常常是更勤奮有用的公民。早到的人同遲到的人一樣令人討厭。客人提前半小時(shí)到達(dá)是最令人討厭的。我家有幾個(gè)朋友就有這種令人惱火的習(xí)慣。唯一的辦法就是請(qǐng)他們比別的客人晚來(lái)半小時(shí)。這樣，他們可以恰好在我們要求的時(shí)間到達(dá)。
如果趕火車(chē)，早到總比晚到好，哪怕早到一會(huì)兒也好。雖然早到可能意味著浪費(fèi)一點(diǎn)時(shí)間，但這比誤了火車(chē)、等上一個(gè)多小時(shí)坐下一班車(chē)?yán)速M(fèi)的時(shí)間要少，而且可以避免那種正好在火車(chē)駛出站時(shí)趕到車(chē)站，因上不去車(chē)而感到的沮喪。更難堪的情況是雖然及時(shí)趕到站臺(tái)上，卻眼睜睜地看著那趟火車(chē)啟動(dòng)，把你拋下。一個(gè)小姑娘第一次單獨(dú)出門(mén)就碰到了這種情況。
在火車(chē)進(jìn)站20分鐘前她就進(jìn)了車(chē)站。因?yàn)樗母改冈偃f(shuō)，如果誤了這趟車(chē)，她的東道主朋友就得接她兩趟，這是不應(yīng)該的。她把行李交給搬運(yùn)工并給他看了車(chē)票。搬運(yùn)工說(shuō)她早到了兩個(gè)小時(shí)，她聽(tīng)后大吃一驚。她從錢(qián)包里摸出一張紙條，那上面有她父親對(duì)這次旅行的詳細(xì)說(shuō)明，她把這張紙條交給了搬運(yùn)工。搬運(yùn)工說(shuō)，正如紙條上所說(shuō)，確有一趟火車(chē)在那個(gè)時(shí)刻到站，但它只停站裝郵件，不載旅客。姑娘要求看時(shí)刻表，因?yàn)樗嘈鸥赣H不能把這么大的事給弄錯(cuò)。搬運(yùn)工跑回去取時(shí)刻表，同時(shí)請(qǐng)來(lái)了站長(zhǎng)。站長(zhǎng)拿著時(shí)刻表一揮手，指著那趟列車(chē)到站時(shí)刻旁邊的一個(gè)很小的圓圈標(biāo)記。這個(gè)標(biāo)記表示列車(chē)是為裝郵件而停車(chē)。正在這時(shí)，火車(chē)進(jìn)站了。女孩淚流滿(mǎn)面，央求讓她不聲不響地到押車(chē)員車(chē)廂里去算了。但站長(zhǎng)態(tài)度堅(jiān)決，規(guī)章制度不能破環(huán)，姑娘只得眼看著那趟火車(chē)消逝在她要去的方向而撇下了她。
Lesson 60 Too early and too late 太早和太晚
Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilizedsociety. Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everythingwould be in a state of chaos. Only in a sparsely-populated rural community isit possible to disregard it. In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance ofunpunctuality. The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, haseverything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand. He is thereforeforgiven, if late for a dinner party. But people are often reproached forunpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine. It is hard forenergetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted tofinish a job before setting out to keep an appointment. If no accidents occuron the way, like punctured tyres, diversions of traffic, sudden descent of fog,they will be on time. They are often more industrious, useful citizens thanthose who are never late. The over-punctual can be as much a trial to others asthe unpunctual. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatestnuisance. Some friends of my family had this irritating habit. The only thingto do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests. Then theyarrived just when we wanted them.
If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortablyearly than even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may meanwasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have towait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration ofarriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station andbeing unable to get on it. An even harder situation is to be on the platform ingood time for a train and still to see it go off without you. Such anexperience befell a certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.
She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due,since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to missit and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeysto meet her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To herhorror he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for thepiece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of thejourney and gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into thestation at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take onmail, not passengers. The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that herfather could not have made such a mistake. The porter went to fetch one andarrived back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish andpointed out a microscopic o beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; thislittle o indicated that the train only stopped for mail. Just as that momentthe train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face,begged to be allowed to slip into the guards van. But the station master wasadamant: rules could not be broken. And she had to watch that train disappeartowards her destination while she was left behind.
準(zhǔn)時(shí)是文明社會(huì)中進(jìn)行一切社交活動(dòng)時(shí)必須養(yǎng)成的習(xí)慣。不準(zhǔn)時(shí)將一事無(wú)成，事事都會(huì)陷入混亂不堪的境地。只有在人口稀少的農(nóng)村，才可以忽視準(zhǔn)時(shí)的習(xí)慣。在日常生活中人們可以容忍一定程度的不準(zhǔn)時(shí)。一個(gè)專(zhuān)心鉆研某個(gè)復(fù)雜問(wèn)題的知識(shí)分子，為了搞好手頭的研究，要把一切都協(xié)調(diào)一致、組織周密。因此，他要是赴宴遲到了會(huì)得到諒解。但有些人不準(zhǔn)時(shí)常常是因?yàn)槠婞c(diǎn)所致，他們常常會(huì)受到責(zé)備。精力充沛、頭腦敏捷的人極不愿意浪費(fèi)時(shí)間，因此他們常想做完一件事后再去赴約。要是路上沒(méi)有發(fā)生如爆胎、改道、突然起霧等意外事故，他們是決不會(huì)遲到的。他們與那些從不遲到的人相比，常常是更勤奮有用的公民。早到的人同遲到的人一樣令人討厭。客人提前半小時(shí)到達(dá)是最令人討厭的。我家有幾個(gè)朋友就有這種令人惱火的習(xí)慣。唯一的辦法就是請(qǐng)他們比別的客人晚來(lái)半小時(shí)。這樣，他們可以恰好在我們要求的時(shí)間到達(dá)。
如果趕火車(chē)，早到總比晚到好，哪怕早到一會(huì)兒也好。雖然早到可能意味著浪費(fèi)一點(diǎn)時(shí)間，但這比誤了火車(chē)、等上一個(gè)多小時(shí)坐下一班車(chē)?yán)速M(fèi)的時(shí)間要少，而且可以避免那種正好在火車(chē)駛出站時(shí)趕到車(chē)站，因上不去車(chē)而感到的沮喪。更難堪的情況是雖然及時(shí)趕到站臺(tái)上，卻眼睜睜地看著那趟火車(chē)啟動(dòng)，把你拋下。一個(gè)小姑娘第一次單獨(dú)出門(mén)就碰到了這種情況。
在火車(chē)進(jìn)站20分鐘前她就進(jìn)了車(chē)站。因?yàn)樗母改冈偃f(shuō)，如果誤了這趟車(chē)，她的東道主朋友就得接她兩趟，這是不應(yīng)該的。她把行李交給搬運(yùn)工并給他看了車(chē)票。搬運(yùn)工說(shuō)她早到了兩個(gè)小時(shí)，她聽(tīng)后大吃一驚。她從錢(qián)包里摸出一張紙條，那上面有她父親對(duì)這次旅行的詳細(xì)說(shuō)明，她把這張紙條交給了搬運(yùn)工。搬運(yùn)工說(shuō)，正如紙條上所說(shuō)，確有一趟火車(chē)在那個(gè)時(shí)刻到站，但它只停站裝郵件，不載旅客。姑娘要求看時(shí)刻表，因?yàn)樗嘈鸥赣H不能把這么大的事給弄錯(cuò)。搬運(yùn)工跑回去取時(shí)刻表，同時(shí)請(qǐng)來(lái)了站長(zhǎng)。站長(zhǎng)拿著時(shí)刻表一揮手，指著那趟列車(chē)到站時(shí)刻旁邊的一個(gè)很小的圓圈標(biāo)記。這個(gè)標(biāo)記表示列車(chē)是為裝郵件而停車(chē)。正在這時(shí)，火車(chē)進(jìn)站了。女孩淚流滿(mǎn)面，央求讓她不聲不響地到押車(chē)員車(chē)廂里去算了。但站長(zhǎng)態(tài)度堅(jiān)決，規(guī)章制度不能破環(huán)，姑娘只得眼看著那趟火車(chē)消逝在她要去的方向而撇下了她。
