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ISSUE 120
“So much is new and complex today thatlooking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance forliving in the present.”

Since Homo sapiens was born, the development of human society keeps accelerate exponentially and never slow down its pace. As thousands of years passed, there is emperor riding in his royal carriage drawn by six horses, books are no longer made of ancient Egyptians’ papyrus or ancient Chinese bamboo slips, and it is impossible that Socrates talk about his knowledge about the universe and every other thing on the square. Today, everyone can take the airplane to travel across the ocean, computers are widely used in various areas of science and business, and modern thinkers and scientists who are diverged into each narrow and specialized realm can only contribute tiny steps to mankind’s giant leap. The present is hugely different from the past. However, as human beings never grow up without history, it is our ancestors’ work of the past which today’s colorful life benefits from.

The revolutionary innovations and changes of technology can be seen in every nook and cranny of the modern world, but so many ideas of old inventions still keep their influence on the industry. Thousands of years ago, when Egyptians build those majestic pyramids, they utilized round wooden beams as wheels to convey huge blocks of stone, which is the major material of pyramids. As several centuries passed, human beings invented carriages, trains, and automobiles, and it is such a coincidence that all of those transportation facilities are designed in the basis of wheels. Undoubtedly, the usage of wheels is inherited and widely used in today’s road communications. It is those old wisdoms that never fade out as time goes by.

When it comes to science, as Isaac Newton said, ‘if I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ There is a giant, Euclid, an ancient Greek mathematician who wrote a book named Elements which is the earliest known work on geometry. Euclid’s Elements has proven enormously profound in the areas of mathematics and even philosophy. And based on this masterpiece, modern mathematicians found a system called Euclidean geometry and keep developing it during centuries. Today, we can find Euclid’s theories as in areas of mathematics, physics, engineering and so forth. Long after Euclid found the rule of geometry, Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei, both the Italian astronomers and the steady supporters of heliocentrism, were sentenced for the guilty of heresy by Roman Church. In the end, Bruno was burned at stake and Galileo was imprisoned until he died. However, heliocentrism did not die, and it had been prove correct by numbers of successors and used in present scientific studies. All as the fundamental theory, works of those explorers in ancient times paved the way for contemporary scientists. More importantly, mankind’s chase after the truth will never stop.

In the similar way, mankind’s pursuit of happiness and freedom remains eternally. Back in the 18th century, it is obviously a wonderful time that the Enlightenment occurred. John Locke, the English philosopher, introduces the libertarianism to the world by his great works, which deeply influenced American Revolution and the written of Declaration of Independence. Almost at the same time in France, inspired by thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Montesquieu, people started the French Revolution, overturned the absolute monarch, and published the famous historical Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to fight for their inalienable rights and. Today, thanks to those precursors, we still live in the free world created by them, and keep fighting for slaves, women, minorities and every other people.

In retrospect, human beings did abandon pseudoscience, get rid of theocracies, and overthrow monarchies. However, people still record and study history though various mistakes are made, because learn from the past and improve ourselves with experience. No matter how the world changes and time flies, history is one and the only source of human treasures that we memorize forever.

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只会堆例子。。。哭了。。。

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发表于 2011-1-4 12:01:20 |只看该作者

Since Homo sapiens was born, the development of human society keeps accelerate exponentially and never slow down its pace.（前面was born，后面keeps，至少也应该用has吧？还有只能说keep doing吧？开篇就冒出俩错误对得分不利哈，容易给阅卷老师留下功底不厚的印象，追求句式复杂韵味深长的开篇不要就一开成名，要不就…有时候简洁有力的开篇也是个不错的选择是吧） As thousands of years passed, there is emperor riding in his royal carriage drawn by six horses, books are no longer made of ancient Egyptians’ papyrus or ancient Chinese bamboo slips, and it is impossible that Socrates talk about his knowledge about the universe and every other thing on the square. Today, everyone can take the airplane to travel across the ocean, computers are widely used in various areas of science and business, and modern thinkers and scientists who are diverged into each narrow and specialized realm can only contribute tiny steps to mankind’s giant leap. The present is hugely different from the past. However, as human beings never grow up without history, it is our ancestors’ work of the past which today’s colorful life benefits from.

The revolutionary innovations and changes of technology can be seen in every nook and cranny of the modern world, but so many ideas of old inventions still keep their influence on the industry. Thousands of years ago, when Egyptians build those majestic pyramids, they utilized round wooden beams as wheels to convey huge blocks of stone, which is the major material of pyramids. As several centuries passed, human beings invented carriages, trains, and automobiles, and it is such a coincidence that all of those transportation facilities are designed in the basis of wheels. Undoubtedly, the usage of wheels is inherited and widely used in today’s road communications. It is those old wisdoms that never fade out as time goes by.

When it comes to science, as Isaac Newton said, ‘if I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.’（这个地方为什么不用双引号哈？） There is a giant, Euclid, an ancient Greek mathematician who wrote a book named Elements which is the earliest known work on geometry. Euclid’s Elements has proven enormously profound in the areas of mathematics and even philosophy. And based on this masterpiece, modern mathematicians found a system called Euclidean geometry and keep developing it during centuries. Today, we can find Euclid’s theories as in areas of mathematics, physics, engineering and so forth. Long after Euclid found the rule of geometry, Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei, both the Italian astronomers and the steady supporters of heliocentrism, were sentenced for the guilty of heresy by Roman Church. In the end, Bruno was burned at stake and Galileo was imprisoned until he died. However, heliocentrism did not die, and it had been prove correct by numbers of successors and used in present scientific studies. All as the fundamental theory, works of those explorers in ancient times paved the way for contemporary scientists. More importantly, mankind’s chase after the truth will never stop.

In the similar way, mankind’s pursuit of happiness and freedom remains eternally. Back in the 18th century, it is obviously a wonderful time that the Enlightenment occurred. John Locke, the English philosopher, introduces the libertarianism to the world by his great works, which deeply influenced American Revolution and the written of Declaration of Independence. Almost at the same time in France, inspired by thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Montesquieu, people started the French Revolution, overturned the absolute monarch, and published the famous historical Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to fight for their inalienable rights and. Today, thanks to those precursors, we still live in the free world created by them, and keep fighting for slaves, women, minorities and every other people.

In retrospect, human beings did abandon pseudoscience, get rid of theocracies, and overthrow monarchies. However, people still record and study history though various mistakes are made, because learn from the past and improve ourselves with experience. No matter how the world changes and time flies, history is one and the only source of human treasures that we memorize forever.

逆影，实在没什么可改的哈，很赞的说！语言功底相当厚实啊！只是举例太多了，这样就显得论证太少，Homo sapiens、Egyptians’ papyrus 、ancient Chinese bamboo slips、Socrates、Euclid’s Elements、Euclid、Isaac Newton、Giordano Bruno 、 Galileo Galilei、Jean-Jacques Rousseau、Voltaire、Montesquieu、pseudoscience、 theocracies、 overthrow monarchies。我就纳闷了哈，我怎么就记不住这么多生僻名词呢，如果这些名词都是默写出来的那逆影记忆力相当不错哈。

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