Unit Six

The Arrogant Scholar

　　Aldaris is a scholar with many devout disciples. He has been disseminating doctrines that is said to be not having the most diminutive drawback. He economizes his own life and become emaciated. When he came to our city last year, our domineering boss discerned him and invited him to give us a discourse. 来源：考试大
　　Aldaris was eloquent and began dilating with elation: “What I want to elucidate today is a problem which is long distained and has dismayed many people. It distracts them all the time and makes them downcast. That is: How to effectuate the discretion in edifying your disposition? ……” He devised lots of dispensable sentences while eluding the important things, thus digressed the topic and the lecture sounded devoid of sense. What’s more, his dialects greatly disarrayed the audience and dwindled the effectiveness of his speech.
　　It was getting dusky and began to drizzle. We all became drowsy and our boss’s patience ebbed. He was discreet and didn’t want to disfigure himself by forcing Aldaris to stop, but he really disparage his speech very much and cannot dissemble any more. Eventually, he said in a devious way: “Your topic is discernible, but it’s so dingy now. Let’s disband the meeting and I’ll disburse your plane ticket back home with discount.” 来源：考试大
　　Aldaris became dismal at once. He replied: “Do not dissimulate or disclaim your real purpose. You divulged that your patience dissipates. Well, if any of you can disprove the topic of my discourse, you can displace me and I’ll go home keep dormant. I’m so ductile.”
　　“Stop effusing your words filled with discord,” shouted the boss angrily, “I’ve dissected your topic and it embodies nothing. Diversify its content, or we’ll efface them. We diverge too much and I have to let you leave, otherwise you’re doing nothing but embezzling our money.”