My Drawing Number Two looked like this:

The grown-ups’ response(回答), this time, was to advise me to lay aside(在旁边) my drawings of boa constrictors(巨蟒), whether from the inside or the outside,and devote(专心致力于) myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic(算术) and grammar.

That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent(美好的) career(职业) as a painter.

I had been disheartened(沮丧) by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome（讨厌的） for children to be always and forever(总是) explaining things to them.

So then I chose another profession(职业), and learned to pilot airplanes.

【response】rɪˈspɒns

Your response to an event or to something that is said is your reply or reaction to it. 反应

【aside】əˈsaɪd

If you move something aside, you move it to one side of you. (把某物移或放) 到一边地

【devote】dɪˈvəʊt

If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it. 把…奉献给

【arithmetic】əˈrɪθmətɪk

Arithmetic is the part of mathematics that is concerned with the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of numbers. 算术

【career】kəˈrɪə

A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life. 职业

【dishearten】dɪsˈhɑːtən

to weaken or destroy the hope, courage, enthusiasm, etc, of 使失去(希望、勇气、热情等)

【tiresome】ˈtaɪəsəm

If you describe someone or something as tiresome, you mean that you find them irritating or boring. 讨厌的; 无聊的

【forever】fɔːˈrɛvə

f you say that something will happen or continue forever, you mean that it will always happen or continue. 永远地

【profession】prəˈfɛʃən

A profession is a type of job that requires advanced education or training. 职业