June 8th
Dear Haiqing,
I hear you are very unhappy these days because your parents can’t afford to buy you some brand-name shoes and garments you like very much. And I write you this letter to share with you what I think about this matter.
To begin with, beauty is just skin deep. Don’t you think it silly to pay so much attention to your appearance? He is a shallow person who judges others by their appearance; in the same sense, he is a shallow person who thinks that a brand-name garment can add to his glamour. So please, just forget about those brand-name things. What really matters is not whether you wear brand-name shoes or garments but whether your clothes fit you. As a student, you have to wear the school uniform on the weekdays and to be honest, you look very smart in it. Then why do you have to bother to buy the expensive brand-name things?
Secondly, I know your parents are both average workers. Hard as they work, they don’t earn much. Despite this, they do their best to give you a lot of things on demand. Look at the callus on their hands and wrinkles on their faces, how can you have the heart to ask for more than they can afford, which will surely break their hearts? Remember, parents don’t owe us expensive summer camps; they don’t owe us Sony Walkman; nor do they owe us Nike shoes, If you really want those fancy things, you should take a part-time job to contribute to their purchase rather than ask your parents for money to add to their already heavy burden. Don’t you think so?
Thirdly, we have such a wide variety of things available these days which are both nice and inexpensive. What’s the point of paying much more for those brand-name things that are not much better? My friend, take my advice, and you’ll be a wiser consumer as well as a more considerate child to your parents.
Poverty, sometimes, is a good thing. It can test a person’s character and it makes a man out of a boy faster than anything else. Keep working hard, and you are bound to be able to afford those things in the near future. Now you may as well focus on your study. Anyway, wouldn’t it be funny for a would-be achiever to be so preoccupied with brand-name things all day long?
Keep in touch.
Yours
Huangping
6月8日
親愛的海青,
我聽説你現在很不高興因為你的父母買不起你一些名牌鞋和你非常喜歡的衣服。我給你寫這封信與你分享我的想法。
首先,美麗只是表面的。你不覺得這麼多關注你的外表很愚蠢嗎?他一個膚淺的人通過他們的外表來判斷他人;在同樣的意義上,他是一個膚淺的人認為名牌衣服可以添加到他的魅力。所以,請忘記那些名牌的東西。真正重要的不在於你穿名牌鞋子或衣服但你的衣服是否適合你。作為一名學生,你必須穿校服在工作日,老實説,你看起來非常聰明。然後你為什麼要費心去買昂貴的名牌的東西?
其次,我知道你的父母都是普通工人。他們努力工作,也掙不了多少錢。儘管如此,他們儘自己最大的努力給你很多東西。看看愈傷組織手上和臉上的皺紋,你怎麼能忍心要求超出他們的承受能力,這肯定會打破他們的心?記住,父母不欠我們昂貴的夏令營,他們不欠我們索尼隨身聽;他們也不欠我們耐克的鞋子,如果你真正想要的那些花哨的東西,你應該採取兼職工作有助於他們的購買,而不是向你的父母要錢增加了沉重的負擔。難道你不這樣認為嗎?
第三,我們有各種各樣的東西可用這些天既好又便宜的。有什麼意義的付出更多的那些名牌的東西不是更好嗎?我的`朋友,聽我的勸告,你會是一個明智的消費者,以及一個更體貼的孩子你的父母。
貧困,有時候,是一件好事。它可以測試一個人的性格,速度比什麼都快。繼續努力,你一定會在不久的將來能夠買得起這些東西。現在你可以專注於你的學習。無論如何,一個潛在成功者，整天專注於名牌的東西不是很有趣的呢
保持聯繫。
你的
黃平
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