当你走出家门开始新的征程，首先要学会的就是要依靠自己，学会独立。没有人可以永远在别人的呵护下成长，独立生活是我们走向成熟的必经之路。
Depend on Yourself
Depend on yourself is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others still can help you. But all these people only help you to help yourself.
There have been many great men in history. Many of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. Schools were few and not very good. They could not depend on them for education. They saw how it was, and set to work with their strength to know something.① They worked their own way till they became well-known.② One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, I cannot make worthy men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves.
Some young men dont try their best to make themselves valuable to human beings. They can not gain achievements unless they see their weakness and change their course. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.
行文点评
我们应该依靠自己，他人只能帮助我们帮助自己。这是文章的主旨，也是第一段中的`主要意思。第二段开始从正面举例说明历史上的伟大人物是怎样依靠自己的力量获得最后成功的。最后一段从反面举例，谈到现在有些年轻人不努力使自己成为对人类有益的人，并给出自己的建议，与题目和文章开头呼应。
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