晨讀英語美文100篇六級Choosing an Occupation

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.98]Passage 53. Choosing an Occupation [00:08.23]Dear sir, [00:14.47]I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me from sending an earlier reply to your letter. [00:21.57]In my opinion a man’s first duty is to find a way of supporting himself, [00:27.05]thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. [00:31.53]Moreover, the learning to do work of practical value in the world, [00:36.67]in an exact and careful manner, is of itself a very important education, [00:41.60]the effects of which make themselves felt in all other pursuits. [00:45.76]The habit of doing that which you do not care about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. [00:53.75]It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth. [00:59.76]Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. [01:08.95]If you possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over, [01:15.51]to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself. [01:19.13]If you don't, you had better stick to commerce. [01:23.39]Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, [01:28.10]as the Scotch proverb says, in “trying to make a spoon spoils a horn,” [01:34.45]and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature or in science, [01:38.93]when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society in other occupations. [01:44.73]I think that your father ought to see this letter. [01:48.45]Yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley

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