英语谚语作文 逆境的意义 Sweet are The Uses of Adversity.docx

1、英语谚语作文 逆境的意义 Sweet are The Uses of AdversitySweet are The Uses of AdversitySweet are The Uses of Adversity Essay: This Shakespearean proverb challenges the fear of a common man who falls on difficult days. Usually, people prefer prosperity to adversity. No one wants to live in difficult circumstance

2、s, where life seems to be a burden, full of sorrows and suffering.Long and Short Essays on Sweet are The Uses of Adversity for Kids and Students in English Given below are two essays in English for students and children about the topic of Sweet are The Uses of Adversity in both long and short form.

3、The first essay is a long essay on the Sweet are The Uses of Adversity of 400-500 words. This long essay about Sweet are The Uses of Adversity is suitable for students of class 7, 8, 9 and 10, and also for competitive exam aspirants. The second essay is a short essay on Sweet are The Uses of Adversi

4、ty of 150-200 words. These are suitable for students and children in class 6 and below.Long Essay on Sweet are The Uses of Adversity Story 500 Words in English Below we have given a long essay on Sweet Are The Uses of Adversity Story of 500 words is helpful for classes 7, 8, 9 and 10 and Competitive

5、 Exam Aspirants. This long essay on the topic is suitable for students of class 7 to class 10, and also for competitive exam aspirants. Life seems to be a yoke, unable to carry and bear during adversity. On the other hand, everyone wants to live perpetually in prosperous times when life seems to be

6、abed of roses, full of joy, happiness, pleasure and beauty. But we rarely realise that without bitterness, sweetness has no existence; without black, white has no colour and without hardships, joy has no meaning. The proverb originated from William Shakespeares famous play, As You Like It. In the sc

7、ene, where this phrase was used, the dramatist considered adversity to be a blessing in disguise and compared it to toads. Toads although, ugly they have a jewel in their head, according to the playwright. This implies that adversities too have ugly faces, but their outcomes are enlightening. Hence,

8、 it is not wise to curse them. They are part of our lives and we should embrace them as we embrace prosperity. No matter how detestable and disagreeable adversity seems to people, no matter how bitter it tastes and how unwelcome it is at every doorstep, yet the poet tells us that adversity is not wi

9、thout any use. The experiences from a shallow perspective may seem bitter during adverse times, yet the poet tells us that its uses are sweet. Life would be dull and uninteresting without shades and hues of different colours. Night follows day, winter is followed by spring, likewise varies the cycle

10、 of life. Where there are valleys there are peaks as well. Ups and downs, joys and sorrows, pleasure and pain make the warp and woof of life. It is the sunshine and the cloudy days that make life interesting and worth living. Difficulties disappear when they are faced boldly. They are like thieves w

11、ho run for their lives when confronted. Everest was conquered by people who faced dangers on their way but persisted to reach the summit. Great people like Socrates, Christ, Prophet Mohammed, Gandhi had to suffer a lot, but they did not refrain from following their ideologies. Some of the most famou

12、s books in history were penned in jail or difficult circumstances. Like a strict school-master who punishes students for their good, adversities to give a lesson. Herbs give sweet fragrance when they are crushed, while a doctor gives bitter pills to his patient to cure him. Discovery of America by C

13、olumbus was an arduous task but he did not bow down before the dangers that the route threw on him. “Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them”. Prosperity brings infinite friends, great money and high status. Virtue is forgotten, rather prosperity becomes the only virtue. Society too looks up

14、to a man in prosperity. On the other hand, when adversity strikes at ones door the man is looked down upon, is forsaken and forgotten by his very own dear friends. Adversity is a furnace that tries friendship as well. In a world where fickleness and betrayal is common, where fortune vanishes and fri

15、ends feign, it is during adversity that the sheep stands separated from the goats. Fair-weather friends disappear even at the sight of adversity whereas true friends stick through thick and thin. The essential baseness of human character is revealed during the times of adversity. When the tough time

16、s strike us, then only we get to see the true and real faces of our friends and near and dear ones. Their sincerity and genuineness is revealed only when they stick through troubled time and have the courage to cry with us and stand with us during sorrow, poverty and loneliness. A true friend is the

17、 one who walks in when the world walks out. If prosperity harbours good fortune, great number of friends and comforts, adversity too, has its own uses in life. It is easy to stand on a pulpit to preach sermons on various virtues during the time of prosperity. But it is the storm of adverse times and

18、 circumstances that tests a persons real calibre and strength. Adversity acts like a furnace or a kiln which tests and tries gold to make it purer and better by separating dross from it. It is adversity that teaches us to be patient, courageous, firm and strong. It is only when we have to fight the

19、circumstances that we turn to the best capacities and abilities in us. It is adversity that tests our will power and determination. It teaches us virtues of fortitude, forbearing, firmness, humanity and sympathy. It also stretches our limits. When chased by a murderer, a person can jump over a high

20、wall, which in ordinary circumstances, he couldnt have thought of attempting.Short Essay on Sweet are The Uses of Adversity Story 200 Words in English Below we have given a short essay on Sweet are The Uses of Adversity Story is for Classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. This short essay on the topic is suita

21、ble for students of class 6 and below. Adversity is the test of character. The weak and the infirm break into pieces and are grinded to powder in the mill of adversity. But the real man who has real strength of character emerges out as an even stronger, greater and firmer creation of God. We learn t

22、o suffer with dignity and forbearance so that we become noble and brave. Pursued and persuaded by adversity, we learn to fight and face the world alone without relying on fair-weather friends. Bacon, the father of English Essays said once, “The virtue of poverty is temperance, the virtue of adversit

23、y is fortitude, which in mortals is the more heroic virtue”. It is adversity that keeps the human in us alive. In days of hay and sunshine, we are apt to get lost in the glory and honour, and grow indifferent to human feelings and sufferings. But when adversity strikes, we learn to be humble, sensit

24、ive and sympathetic. Perseverance, despite all odds, can change failure into success. Favourable and adverse situations shouldnt be taken as separate concepts. These are mutually dependent and can be as fruitful as harmful. The so-called harmful effects can be nullified through mental reconditioning

25、. A wise man treats all situations with equanimity. Thus, it is only in times of adversity that the human soul transcends and rises above the mundane forms of life. It makes the soul sublime because prosperity easily brings in vice but it is adversity that discovers the virtue.Sweet Are The Uses of

26、Adversity Essay Word Meanings for Simple Understandingyoke burden disguise appearance that misrepresents the true character of something detestable hateful, shocking, offensive warp and woof a foundation or base upon which something is built summit the highest point or part; the top refrain to hold

27、oneself back arduous demanding great effort or labor; difficult virtue moral excellence and righteousness; goodness fickleness unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous feign to give a false appearance of pulpit a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to th

28、e person on it kiln a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks dross an impurity, usually an oxide, formed on the surface of a molten metal fortitude strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage forbearance self-control; patience nullified to make null; invalidate