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208 "The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people."
208. 人们的眼神、衣着和行动表现出他们的态度和兴趣。你可以通过观察人们的外表 和行为来获知许多这个社会的思想和价值观。
There is an old saying “ Don’t judge a person by his appearance”. However, can we judge a society by the appearance and behavior of its people, even if people say that the way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests? It seems that we have bogged down(好) in the predicament whether we can know much about a society’s ideas and values through this means.(作者观点没有明确提出是什么?)
In fact, the appearance and behavior of people can indeed reflect some ideas and values of a society. It is known to all that jeans,(这里用and连接吧) T-shirts both originate in America. During the 1950-70s, it became the sign of rebellion and anti-tradition for people to(who) wear them. Since then T-shirts have been used to express free personal opinions, such as against Vietnam- war, champion for environment protection. They came to symbolize some ideas and values of the contemporary American society. Meanwhile, across the Pacific ocean, on the other (other后面接复数名词)continent, one country was famous for its people wearing the same “ blue”, called “blue ants”. Just like their blue-oriented clothes, their thoughts seemed to be all painted red- oriented. People could easily detect the society’s ideas and values from the same blue and read the same thoughts.
By observing the appearance and behavior of people, what we get is not only the surface, sometimes, but touches the deep beneath of it.
However, appearance is appearance. It can enthrall people’ eyes . Even sometimes, we can scratch the surface, realize the truth, but most of the time, we are captivated by the appearance and behavior of people. Take the German for example, according to people’s observation, they are rational, caring for philosophy and literature. However, it is this nation that caused the two world wars and made the brutal holocaust to Jews. In Japan, the modest smile appears on every person’s face, the most polite behaviors are so naturally acted by its people. However, it is this nation that massacred countless people in 1937 Rape of Nanking. By observing the friendly appearance and polite behavior of Japanese, we cannot detect that the militarism is still prevailing in this society. Then we would ask ourselves “ do we really know this society’s values and ideas?”.(例子可能会引起老外的误解哦)
If we want to know much about a society’ values and ideas, observing the appearance and behaviors of its people is merely part of the whole process. It is necessary for us to get to know the history, the culture, the economy, and the politics of this society. History can tell us how this society forms, why the nation forms their own values. Culture can reveal the characteristics of the society. The economy and the politics determines the society ‘s structure. All the above is years of sediments, which people can not get by catching a glimpse of the appearance and behavior of its people. (加点例子或名人名言就更好了)
In sum, as we know, society is made up of individuals. Individuals’ attitudes and interests can be revealed by their dress, looks and actions. Admittedly, we can get some information about a society’s ideas and values through observing its people ‘s behavior and appearance, but it does not mean that we can know much of a society. Thus, truly knowing a society needs observe variety of aspects, which just like get to know a person, we always try to know his different aspects, and never judge him by his appearance. 总体感觉不错,但最后一段好象有点绕来绕去重复单词的感觉:) |
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