奇速英语

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper (脾气). His father gave him a bag of nails (钉子). He told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the wall.

The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the wall. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his temper, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dropped. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the wall.

Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it. The father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the wall. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the wall. The wall will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry. The wound is still there.”

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