一句名言的启示

——虚心万事能成，自满十事九空

——Modesty makes everything possible, complacency makes ten things nine empty

名言是用来激励或者提醒人们的警句。如果你问我挑哪一句做为自己的座右铭，我会挑“虚心万事能成，自满十事九空”。是的，这句话一点不错，通过四年级那件事后，我的感触更深了，这是为什么呢？

Famous sayings are used to inspire or remind people. If you ask me which one I choose as my motto, I will choose "modesty makes everything possible, complacency makes everything possible.". Yes, that's a good sentence. After the fourth grade event, I felt more deeply. Why?

那是四年级期末考试的事了。那次考试由于我的全面发挥，考了个不错的分数，幸而登上了年级第二的宝座。我很兴奋，爸爸妈妈也很高兴。但那作为“职业教师”的妈妈，还是对我说了一大堆“让我不能骄傲啊”，“要谦虚呀”之类的话。可我早已被胜利冲昏了头脑，妈妈的话我是左耳进，右耳出。完全不予理睬。上学、放学走在路上，总听见许多同学在窃窃私语：“呀，他就是年级第二啊！”“就是，听说第一名只比他多0。5分呢！”我听了这些话后便开始更自大起来。上课吃零食，开小差，不是和同学说话，就是到处传纸条。更离谱的是，有时我还用语文、数学书挡着，在下面看漫画书。同桌老是提醒我，我也是置之不理。一次，同桌见我老毛病又犯了，便开始劝我：“你，你在看，我就告诉老师。”“去吧，去吧，反正我是年级第二，谁怕谁啊！”我狂妄地说道，因为我知道他胆小，不敢告诉老师，果然，他没有那样做。

That's the fourth grade final. Thanks to my full play, I got a good score in that exam, fortunately, I was the second in my grade. I'm very excited, and so are my parents. But as a "professional teacher" mother, she still said a lot of "let me not be proud", "be modest" and so on. But I have already been overwhelmed by the victory. If my mother said, I would go in the left ear and out the right ear. Completely ignored. On the way to and from school, I always hear many students whisper: "ah, he is the second grade!" "I heard that the first place is only 0 more than him. Five points! " After listening to these words, I began to be more arrogant. Snacks and errands in class, either talking to classmates or passing notes everywhere. What's more, sometimes I still use Chinese and math books to block and read comic books below. My deskmate reminds me all the time, and I don't care. Once, my deskmate saw that my old fault had been made again, and began to advise me: "you, you are looking, I will tell the teacher." "Go ahead, go ahead. I'm the second in grade. Who's afraid of me?" I said arrogantly, because I knew that he was timid and didn't dare to tell the teacher. Sure enough, he didn't do that.

时间飞逝，转瞬之间半学期就这样稀里糊涂地过去了，同桌也不再理我。又到期中考试了。因为前几次小测试我都拿了高分，这让原本自大的我更加狂妄了，根本没把考试放在心上，自认为一定是高分，结果试卷发下来，我数学只考了81分，连全班30名都排不上号，一向是“语文强人”的我只考了90分，排在20多名。老师叫我去办公室谈话。一进办公室，老师便开口了：“张琛，你怎么了，你以前不是这样的呀，是不是有什么事啊，告诉老师好吗？听了老师的话，我心中一阵惭愧：老师还是信任我的啊。于是，我把半学期的学习情况一五一十地说了出来。老师听了，意味深长地说：“老师送你一句名言，希望你记住它，不要违背它。这句话你应该听说过，就是：‘虚心万事能成，自满十事九空。’你知道它的意思吗？”我点点头，开口说：“只要虚心，什么事都能成功；如果骄傲，什么事也不会成功。”老师满意地点点头。

Time flies, in a blink of an eye half semester passed in such a muddle headed way, and my deskmate no longer paid attention to me. The mid-term exam is due again. Because I got high scores in the previous tests, which made me more arrogant. I didn't pay attention to the test at all. I thought it must be a high score. As a result, I only got 81 scores in mathematics, even 30 students in the class didn't rank on the list. I only got 90 scores, ranking more than 20. The teacher asked me to talk in the office. As soon as he entered the office, the teacher said, "Zhang Chen, what's wrong with you? You didn't do that before. Is there anything wrong with you? Can you tell the teacher? Listen to the teacher's words, my heart burst of shame: the teacher or trust me. So, I put half of the semester's learning situation out. The teacher listened and said meaningfully: "the teacher sent you a famous saying. I hope you remember it and don't violate it. You should have heard of this saying: "modesty makes everything possible, complacency makes everything possible." Do you know what it means? " I nodded and said, "as long as you are modest, everything will succeed; if you are proud, nothing will succeed." The teacher nodded with satisfaction.

“虚心万事能成，自满十事九空”，从此就成为了我的座右铭。我想：这句话将伴随我一生，使我从中受益匪浅。

"Modesty makes everything possible, and complacency makes everything possible." has become my motto ever since. I think: this sentence will be with me all my life, and I will benefit a lot from it.