京藏高速又拥堵了。以生活体验为根据，原因是多方面的。首先是政府的管理能力，其次是经济复苏，还有国民的素质问题。 中国人总是有一种极左思维，把一切问题归结在政府，而不知道从国民那里找原因。 以下是一则报道，说南朝鲜有一位妇女，已经69岁，经过960次失败以后，终于通过了交通考试。 此前她失败的地方不是操作，而是笔试。 作为一个愚夫愚妇，竟然能够做到这样遵纪守法，真是奇迹。这就是所谓的礼仪之邦。 古代中国曾经是礼仪之邦，可惜现在成了无礼之邦。古人云，饿死事小，失节事大。到了现代竟然被完全颠覆。固然如果以女性的婚姻次数为贞洁，这是错误的。但是除此以外，这句话是对的。 特别是在政治领域，谁敢无耻之尤，认为饿死是大，失节是小。 然而政治始终是小问题，真正的大事是国民素质。如果国民无耻，士大夫和国家终究也是无耻的。 一个国家，不让国民背负起来，让谁背负起来？顾炎武说，国家兴亡，匹夫有责。 At First She Didnt Succeed, but She Tried and Tried Again (960 Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/world/asia/04driver.html?ref=world 有志者事竟成 ( In South Korea ) Cha Sa-soon车姓, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in the mountain-ringed环山 village of Sinchon新村. She failed her drivers test hundreds of times but never gave up. Finally, she got her license执照 on her 960th try. For three years starting in April 2005, she took the test once a day five days a week. After that, her pace节奏 slowed, to about twice a week. But she never quit. perhaps Ms. Cha should content herself with simply getting the license and not endangering others on the road by actually driving. But they were not too worried about the risk, they said, because it was the written test, not the driving skill and road tests, that she failed so many times. WHEN word began spreading last year of the woman who was still taking the test after failing it more than 700 times, reporters traced her to Sinchon, where the bus, the only means of public transportation, comes by once every two hours on a street so narrow it has to pull over to let other vehicles pass. They followed her to the test site in the city of Jeonju, an hour away. There, they also videotaped her in the market, where she sells her home-grown vegetables at an open-air stall . Once she finally got her license, in May, Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, started an online campaign asking people to post messages of congratulations. Thousands poured in. In early August, Hyundai presented Ms. Cha with a $16,800 car. Ms. Cha, whose name, coincidentally enough, is Korean for vehicle, now also appears on a prime-time television commercial for Hyundai. 愚夫愚妇 It is a big change from her non-celebrity默默无闻 life, spent simply in a one-room hut with a slate石板 roof, where the only sounds on a recent summer day were from a rain-swollen涨满雨水 brook小溪, occasional间或 military jets flying overhead and cicadas蝉 rioting吵闹 in the nearby persimmon柿子 trees. A lone old man dozed, occasionally swatting拍打 at flies, in a small shop next to the bus stop. Born to a peasant family with seven children but no land, Ms. Cha spent her childhood working in the fields and studying at an informal night school. It was not until she turned 15 that she joined a formal school as a fourth grader. But her schooling ended there a few years later. Father had no land, and middle school was just a dream for me, she said. Ms. Cha said she had always envied羡慕 people who could drive, but it was not until she was in her 60s that she got around to trying for a license. Here, if you miss the bus, you have to wait another two hours. Talk about frustration!郁闷 said Ms. Cha, who had to transfer to a second bus转乘 to get to her driving test site and to yet another to reach her market stall. But I was too busy raising my four children, she continued. Eventually they all grew up and went away and my husband died several years ago, and I had more time for myself. I wanted to get a drivers license so I could take my grandchildren to the zoo. 天真烂漫 Ms. Cha tackled the first obstacle, which for years proved insurmountable不可逾越: the 50-minute written test consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions多项选择 on road regulations and car maintenance. She first tried, unsuccessfully, an audio test for illiterate文盲 people where questions were read to test-takers. Later, she switched to the normal test. PRACTICE made perfect, but slowly. She failed the written test 949 times, but her scores steadily crept爬 up. When she came to them early last year, teachers at Jeonbuk Driving School pitched插 in, giving her extra lessons, painstakingly explaining the terminology术语. It drove you crazy to teach her, but we could not get mad at her, said Lee Chang-su, another teacher. She was always cheerful. She still had the little girl in her. It was only last November, on her 950th try, that she achieved a passing grade及格成绩 of 60 out of 100. She then passed two driving skill and road tests, but only after failing each four times. For each of her 960 tests, she had to pay $5 in application fees . I didnt mind, said Ms. Cha. To me, commuting every day to take the test was like going to school. I always missed school. Her son,36, said: Mother has lived a hard life, selling vegetables door to door and working other peoples farms. Maybe that made her stubborn. If she puts her mind to something, no one can argue her out of it. 愚夫愚妇和士大夫的道德责任和道德标准是相同的，甚至应该更高。 不是说人民是淳朴善良的吗？ About a decade十年 ago, before embarking开始 on her quest for a drivers license, Ms. Cha spent three years studying for a hairdressers license美容师执照. For six months, she caught a 6 a.m. bus every weekday, switched转乘 to a train and then to another bus to attend a government-financed training program for hairdressers. But no beauty salon美容店 would hire her. She was considered too old. Her tenacity顽强 has struck a chord打动心弦 with South Koreans, who are often exhorted教导 to recall the hardship years after the 1950-53 Korean War and celebrate perseverance坚毅 as a national trait国民性. The countrys most popular boxing champion was Hong Su-hwan, who was floored four times before knocking out Hector Carrasquilla to win the World Boxing Associations super bantamweight championship in 1977. His feat gave rise to a popular phrase about resolve: Sajeonogi, or Knocked down four times, rising up five. 三落三起 Ms. Cha seems to have given new meaning to this favorite Korean saying. On her wall where she hung black-and-white photographs of her and her late husband as a young couple and a watch that had stopped ticking, she also had posted a handwritten and misspelled sign that read, Never give up !
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