6.引語評論：信任

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Maintaining Trust by commenting on the saying “It takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it.” You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

As an old saying goes1, “It takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it.” Maintaining trust is the most important characteristic that a person requires to be successful in life. Only by consistently proving to be2 honest can a person earn the precious trust of family members and business partners.

On the one hand, a parents’ relationship with his children must be based on trust and integrity. If a father promises many times to take his son to a football match and cancels every time, his son will naturally lose begin to lose faith in his father’s words. On the other hand, in the business world, people with no trust sooner or later earn the bad reputation they deserve. I have observed how destructive a person’s dishonesty has been to his chances for success, and how his relationships with other people are purely superficial, based only on self-interest.

Trust is a very valuable asset, which is easy to lose but hard to gain3. In the long run, an honest person will have earned the love and respect of the people closest to them, which, in my opinion, is the greatest measure of a successful life.

正如諺語所說，“建立信任需要很多年，但毀掉信任隻需要幾秒鐘”。一個人若想人生有成，應具備的最重要的特征就是保持信任。一個人隻有堅定不移地做到誠實，才能贏得家人和商業(yè)伙伴的寶貴信任。

一方面，父母和孩子的關系必須建立在信任與誠信的基礎上。如果一位父親多次許諾兒子會帶他去看足球比賽，結果每次都取消計劃，那麼慢慢地，兒子自然就不再相信父親說的話了。另一方面，在商界，沒有誠信的人遲早會落個身敗名裂。我目睹了一個人用欺騙毀掉了自己成功的機會，他與別人的關系統(tǒng)統(tǒng)是以個人利益為基礎，因而純粹是膚淺的。

信任是一份十分珍貴的財富，失去容易獲得難。從長遠看，一個誠實的人將贏得周圍人的愛戴和尊敬。在我看來，這就是衡量成功人生的最重要的尺度。