高中英語作文範文：做到最好

They say "Make the best of a bad situation". But I believe the bad situation makes the best of you. Even the irritations1 of life can be useful. President Abraham Lincoln showed us how this is so.

　　One of his cabinet appointees2, Edwin Stanton, frequently found flaws with the president and criticized him ---- sometimes in public. Lincoln seemed to show excessive patience with him. The president was asked why he kept such a man in a high level position.

　　Lincoln characteristically responded with a story. He told about a time he was visiting with an old farmer. He noticed a big horsefly3 biting the flank4 of the farmer's horse. Lincoln said he reached over to brush the fly away. As he did so, the farmer stopped him and cautioned5, "Don't do that, friend. That horsefly is the only thing keeping this old horse moving."

　　Even life's many irritations and problems have their place. They may cause us to change directions. Or prod6 us to greater achievement. Or keep us moving along when it's easier to go nowhere.

　　Are you simply making the best of a bad situation, or will it make the best of you?

　　人們常說:"用最好的辦法處理逆境。"但我相信逆境會讓你做到最好,就連生活中讓你煩惱的事都可能會有用處的。亞伯拉罕·林肯總統就向我們展示了這一點。

　　他手下的一名內閣官員埃德溫·斯坦頓經常找他的缺點,並以此指責他--有時候還在公開場合這樣做。林肯對他似乎一直都很忍讓。有人問總統爲什麼要把這樣一個人放在高層位置上。

　　林肯的回答很特別,他講了一個故事。他說有一次他去拜訪一位老農,注意到一隻大馬蠅正在咬馬的肋腹。林肯說他伸手去驅趕那隻馬蠅,但老農阻止了他,並警告說:"別趕它,朋友。那隻馬蠅是唯一能讓這匹老馬活動的東西。"

　　即便是生活中許多令人煩惱和棘手的事情都有它存在的必要。它們或許會讓我們改變方向,或許會促使我們取得更大的成就,或許會在我們容易懈怠的時候促使我們繼續前進。

　　你是用最好的辦法處理逆境,還是在它的促使下做到最好?