Day after day and year after year, Zuo Si gradually grew up. Because of his unremitting afforts in hard study, he became an erudite scholar and wrote very excellent essays.

日复一日，年复一年，左思渐渐长大了，由于他坚持不懈地发奋读书，终于成为一位学识渊博的人，文章也写得非常好。

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An old-fashioned scholar-journalist who devoted his early career to erudite essays in Time magazine and worthy books about arms control, he is described by friends as hard-driven but understated.

ECONOMIST: Strobe Talbott, deliverer of Russia