Often children can’t be bothered to struggle with a reader because the reward in the end is not worth the effort—slow tedium, that’s what basal readers provide. What a negative contrast to television!

孩子们经常不愿费点劲读基准读物，原因是到最后付出了努力却得不到应有的奖赏——冗长乏味，这正是那些基准读物所能提供的，与电视形成鲜明的对照！

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And it's much better to think of the process of coming up with ideas as a group effort in what is that's my idea vs. your idea, and if mine happens, I win.

更好的办法是，把这个过程，看作是集体努力的过程，而并不是我的观点和你的观点的对抗，如果我的实现了，我赢了。

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Maybe we look like we aren’t good at what we love on the surface, but with a little time and effort we could actually follow our dreams, ” said an anonymous American fan of Kung Fu Panda.

也许我们表面看来并不擅长自己喜爱的事物，但是经过一段时间的努力，我们真的可以追寻自己的梦想。

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"We saw,with the stimulus the effort to rush and spend, what can happen if you jam major legislation before people have an opportunity to understand what is in it,".

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In other words, the effort of a reader in coming to terms with the meaning of a text is an effort to master the subject matter, what is there, what the text is really about.

也就是说读者为理解文本,做出的努力,就是来掌握事情本身，存在的努力，掌握文本究竟是关于什么的努力。

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