人教版高中英语选修四92页译文
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DOES PRACTICE REALLY MAKE PERFECT?
“Practice makes perfect" is a very popular expression. However can we take this saying literally? Many scientific studies have sought to either prove or disprove this idea. So does enough practice literally lead to perfection,or at least to a level of experti?
One popular theory is that if a person practices for at least 10,000 hours, they will reach“perfection"-or, in other words, become an expert in their field.This theory was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 best-lling book,Outliers:The Story of Success.He claimed10 000 hours of practice to be "the magic number of greatness”.He gave the examples of the music group The Beatles and Microsoft co-creator Bill Gates. Although they all emed to have lots of natural talent, they also clearly put in over 10,000 hours of practice before they became successful.
However, Gladwell's book has been said by many to be too simplistic and generalising. Gladwell's work was largely bad on rearch done by Anders Ericsson, who argued that Gladwell misinterpreted his rearch.Firstly, Ericsson stated that 10,000 hours was an average figure. Some people,for example, needed far fewer than 10,000 hours, and others many more More importantly, Ericsson said that just practising a lot was not enough; the type and quality of practice was also esntial. He went on to explain the importance of "deliberate practice", which is when a person practices a specific part of a skill in depth rather than practising a skill as a whole. Deliberate practice is said to be much more effective, albeit more tiring.
Despite the theories mentioned above, many other studies argue that practice alone is far from enough. in fact. a more recent study from Princeton University stated that practice only accounted for up to 26% of reaching an expert level.So what are the other factors that contribute to people becoming experts.
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实践真的让完美吗?
“熟能生巧”是一个非常流行的说法。然而，我们可以从字面上理解这句话吗?许多科学研究试图证明或否定这一观点。那么，足够的练习真的能带来完美吗?或者至少达到一定的专业水平?
一个流行的理论是，如果一个人练习至少10000小时，他们就会达到“完美”，或者换句话说，成为他们领域的专家。马尔科姆·格拉德威尔(MalcolmGladwell)在他2008年的畅销书《异类:成功的故事》(Outliers:TheStoryofSuccess)中使这一理论闻名于世。他声称
一万小时的练习是“伟大的神奇数字”。他举了披头士和微软创始人之比尔盖茨的例子。虽然他们看起来都很有天赋，但在成功之前，他们显然也投入了超过10000小时的练习。
然而，许多人认为格拉德威尔的书过干简单化，并目概括格拉德威尔的工作主要基于安德斯·爱立信所做的研究，他认为格拉德威尔误解了他的研究，首先，爱立信表示10000小时是一个平均数字。例如，有些人需要的时间远少于10000小时，而其他人则需要更多。更重要的是，爱立信表示，仅仅多练习是不够的;实践的类型和质量也很重要。他接着解释了
“刻意练习”的重要性，即一个人深入练习一项技能的特定部分，而不是整体练习一项技能。据说刻意练习更有效，尽管更累。
尽管有上面提到的理论，许多其他的研究认为，单靠实践是远远不够的。事实上，普林斯顿大学最近的一项研究表明，实践只占达到专家水平的26%。那么，促使人们成为专家的其他因素是什么呢?
