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本杰明·富兰克林《本杰明·富兰克林自传》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 领导
He had some ingenious men among his friends, who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper, which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand, and these gentlemen often visited us. Hearing their conversations, and their accounts of the approbation their papers were received with, I was excited to try my hand among them; but, being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and, writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. It was found in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they call'd in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then esteem'd them.
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定位:Additional excerpt 13 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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富兰克林还是少年时,常听哥哥的朋友们谈论他们为报纸写的小文章多么受欢迎,心里痒痒也想试试。但他知道哥哥若发现是弟弟写的,多半不肯登,于是故意改变笔迹,匿名写了一篇,半夜塞进印刷所门缝。第二天文章被朋友们读到,他站在旁边听他们夸赞,还猜作者是谁,猜来猜去都是镇上有学问、有才气的人,他心里美极了。他后来承认,自己当时运气好,那些评判者未必真有他以为的那么高明。想试身手又怕被身份挡住时,匿名投稿是个办法,但也要明白:别人的夸奖可能带着偶然。
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富兰克林在自传里回忆少年时在哥哥詹姆斯的印刷所当学徒,偷偷写文章投稿《新英格兰报》的经历。
今日一问
你有没有因为怕被拒绝而不敢尝试的事?能不能换个匿名或低风险的方式先试一次?
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