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发表于 2009-1-25 17:29:04 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

本帖最后由 sakuraanne 于 2009-11-5 13:26 编辑

写着写着写晕了，好像写出来的和想的不一样，结构也貌似松散，还请高人在逻辑、思路、语法上指点一二。

120. "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."
现在有太多新的、复杂的事物，因此回首了解过去对于现在的生活没有什么指导意义。

We should have to admit that nowadays the world acts like a enormous productive machine, creating brand new marvels; to some extent, it also seems like a kaleidoscope, changing with all its complexity. While we are thrilled and enchanted by those stimulants, some questions emerge quietly from surface. Shall we embrace the present in the cost of throwing away the past because of the fresh and new of the present? Won’t it be a little hasty to deny the value of the past? What if the now-seemed-marvels just ephemeral fog? I believe that if we want to live better in the present, an understanding of the past can provides us nutrient both from the field of thinking and the field of acting.

Some previous knowledge, such as the essential measurement of truth and beauty, the human nature, the principles of how things function in the universe .etc, stay unchanged through time which play a crucial role in our perception of inner and outer world. Therefore, in the process of knowing the past, people enrich their life experience from what people live before them had already gained. Either in the advancement and development of science and technology, or in the penetrating of nature and human, understanding the past all have its significance. We know what kinds of plants and animals are poisonous and what kinds are beneficial; we believe everything in the universe transfer into another without a loss in the whole picture; and we share pursuits toward beauty, love and happiness which delineated and hymned in Shakespeare, Plato and Van Gogh. Because of the continuous understanding of the past in the latter generation, human beings pass on valuable thinking and accumulate their knowledge from ancient time which enables progress of the whole race.

Of course, nothing is impeccable and the former truth may not suitable for every case in present time. However, they can also reflect our opinions in their own system, which is solid and well-organized, and in this way construct a new and in-time theory based on the old canon. Take Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations for instance, its specific functions may get little usage in current market while its way of thinking and the fundamental thesis provide guidance in dealing with present economic issues.

On the other hand, understanding the past can shape people’s behavior and influence their decision, some of these decisions even may have a great impact on history. Learning from precedence provides people broader and deeper views when considering the present and predicting the future. It help us to evaluate today’s situation and develop new decisions while combining with ancestors’ experience, like Newton said (as I paraphrased), I just a little boy stands on giants’ shoulder. The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved studying history and used the strategies from The Art of War, the ancient Chinese military treatise in the famous Landing Operation on Normandy. Normal people like us can also learn from great history books like Decline and Fall of Roman Empire to understand the reason of the devastating of the prosperous Roman Empire and use the wisdom into our daily lives. The rule that ruin is not from outside but from the corruption of inside is fit for everywhere.

Admittedly, there exist many new things we cannot call for the old experience an exact answer. The fourth technology revolution made the world change too rapidly to get grasp of as information exploded, organisms cloned, food genetically modified and war carried out with no fire. In consequence, many pervasive cognitive styles should be modified as well. Formerly, we used to praise the braveness of man in a war; nowadays, with the transformation of emphasis from military strength to technique level, should we change our way of viewing it to that evading in order to keep strength is not a shame but a strategy worth considering.

Generally speaking, we should view looking back for an understanding of the past dialectically in which we mainly hold a positive attitude in learning and absorbing the marrow of past while support creating new ways to solve new problems.

唯一有的就是单纯的好奇心
结果就是他认为是好的东西
就毫不掩饰的赞美完全敞开心胸
也就是说这家伙太危险了
对他而言什么鉴定的眼光根本没有