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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 192

奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导

Marion Harland has accomplished wonders, and she has been able to do this by economizing the minutes to shape her novels and newspaper articles, when her children were in bed and whenever she could get a spare minute. Though she has done so much, yet all her life has been subject to interruptions which would have discouraged most women from attempting anything outside their regular family duties. She has glorified the commonplace as few other women have done. Harriet Beecher Stowe, too, wrote her great masterpiece, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in the midst of pressing household cares. Beecher read Froude's "England" a little each day while he had to wait for dinner. Longfellow translated the "Inferno" by snatches of ten minutes a day, while waiting for his coffee to boil, persisting for years until the work was done.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21291
定位:Excerpt 192 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

玛丽恩·哈兰在照顾孩子、家务缠身的情况下,利用孩子睡觉和一切零碎分钟写小说和报纸文章,成就惊人。斯托夫人也是在繁重家务中写出《汤姆叔叔的小屋》。比彻每天等晚饭时读一点弗劳德的《英格兰史》。朗费罗等咖啡煮开的十分钟里翻译《神曲》,坚持多年完成。他们的共同点是:不追求整块时间,而是把零碎时间固定用于一件具体的事,并长期坚持。

上下文

马登在书中举多位19世纪作家为例,说明家庭主妇和忙碌者也能靠零碎时间完成大作品。

今日一问

你每天有哪些等待的零碎时间,可以固定用来推进一件长期目标?

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