英语智慧背囊 04-未经磨光的钻石
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.00]Unpolished Diamond 未经磨光的钻石[00:07.49]How a person reacts to criticism often means the difference [00:10.65]between success and failure. [00:12.74]Take the case of Ole Bull, [00:15.02]the famous Norwegian violinist of the 19th century. [00:18.62]His practical father, [00:20.38]a chemist, sent him to the University of Christiania to study for the ministry [00:25.74]and forbade him to play his beloved violin. [00:28.27]He promptly flunked out and, defying his father, [00:32.86]devoted all his time and energy to the violin. [00:35.80]Unfortunately, though he had great ability, [00:38.99]his teachers were relatively unskilled, [00:41.82]so that by the time he was ready to start his concert tour [00:45.54]he wasn’t prepared. [00:46.74]In Italy a Milan newspaper critic wrote: [00:50.23]"He is an untrained musician. [00:52.43]If he be a diamond, [00:54.19]he is certainly in the rough and unpolished." [00:57.13]There were two ways Ole Bull could have reacted to that criticism. [01:01.50]He could have let it make him angry, [01:03.59]or he could learn from it. [01:05.32]Fortunately he chose the latter. [01:07.96]He went to the newspaper office and asked to see the critic. [01:11.67]The astounded editor introduced him. [01:14.31]Ole spent the evening with the 70-year-old critic, [01:17.91]asked about his faults, [01:19.45]and sought the older man’s advice on how to correct them. [01:22.40]Then he canceled the rest of his tour, [01:24.92]returned home, and spent the next six months studying [01:28.19]under really able teachers. [01:30.18]He practiced hours upon hours to overcome his faults. [01:33.88]Finally, he returned to his concerts and, [01:37.26]when only 26, [01:38.81]became the sensation of Europe. |
