乔治·华盛顿,美国的开国总统,他半生戎马倥偬,赢得美国独立,首创民主共和,是全世界民主的典范,二百多年来一直受到美国乃至全世界人民的崇敬和爱戴,并被尊为“美国之父”。然而,华盛顿并非生来就是一个可以呼风唤雨的传奇英雄。由于父亲早逝,华盛顿没有受过多少教育,他没有学者的清高和诗人的浪漫,而是一个淳朴、现实、充满实干精神的普通人。他渊博的学识源于在实践中不断学习和积累,一步步成长直至脱颖而出,跨入军政权力的中心并发挥聪明才智,最终成就不朽功勋。乔治·华盛顿,伟大而平凡,可敬又可爱,是值得并且可以为我们每个人学习和效法的,相信这位伟人自觉磨砺的每一个印记,都可以给今天的青少年以无边的启迪。 George Washington, the founding president of the United States and his half-term military campaign, won the United States independence and the first democratic republic. It is a model for democracy throughout the world and has been revered and loved by the people of the United States and the rest of the world for more than two hundred years. For the “father of the United States.” However, Washington is not born to be a legendary hero who can do anything they want. Because of his premature death, Washington did not receive much education. He did not have the esteem of scholars and the poet’s romance. Instead, he was an honest, realistic and full of hard-working ordinary people. His profound knowledge stems from continuous learning and accumulation in practice, growing step by step until it stands out, entering the center of military and political power and exerting his talents, and finally making an immortal deed. George Washington, great and ordinary, respectable and adorable, every mark that is worthy and can be learned and imitated for all of us, and who believes in this conscious self-sharpening, can give boundless enlightenment to today’s young people.