英语六级作文范文【题目】
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Maintaining Trust by commenting on the saying “It takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it。”You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words。
【参考范文】
As an old saying goes¹, “It takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it。”Maintaining trust is the most important characteristic that a person requires to be successful in life. Only by consistently proving to be²honest can a person earn the precious trust of family members and business partners。
On the one hand, a parents’relationship with his children must be based on trust and integrity. If a father promises many times to take his son to a football match and cancels every time, his son will naturally lose begin to lose faith in his father’s words. On the other hand, in the business world, people with no trust sooner or later earn the bad reputation they deserve. I have observed how destructive a person’s dishonesty has been to his chances for success, and how his relationships with other people are purely superficial, based only on self-interest。
Trust is a very valuable asset, which is easy to lose but hard to gain³. In the long run, an honest person will have earned the love and respect of the people closest to them, which, in my opinion, is the greatest measure of a successful life。
【翻译解析】
正如谚语所说，“建立信任需要很多年，但毁掉信任只需要几秒钟”。一个人若想人生有成，应具备的最重要的特征就是保持信任。一个人只有坚定不移地做到诚实，才能赢得家人和商业伙伴的宝贵信任。
一方面，父母和孩子的关系必须建立在信任与诚信的基础上。如果一位父亲多次许诺儿子会带他去看足球比赛，结果每次都取消计划，那么慢慢地，儿子自然就不再相信父亲说的话了。另一方面，在商界，没有诚信的人迟早会落个身败名裂。我目睹了一个人用欺骗毁掉了自己成功的机会，他与别人的关系统统是以个人利益为基础，因而纯粹是肤浅的。
信任是一份十分珍贵的财富，失去容易获得难。从长远看，一个诚实的人将赢得周围人的爱戴和尊敬。在我看来，这就是衡量成功人生的最重要的尺度。