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写的第四篇,貌似很不好的样子。。。可不可以指点一下。。
221、The chief believe of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time of history.
As the wheel of time turns, many things change. Nations rose then destroyed, oceans became plains. Caveman were hunting animals and collecting fruits in most of their lifetime; now we sit in front of computers and transit ourselves from boxes to boxes called buildings or cars. However, the speaker asserts that people are significantly changed as time passes by is an illusion that should be break down, which consists the main belief of studying history. As far as I concerned, I concede that essential transform of human mind has not taken place during the long history, nevertheless, it’s controversial to claim that realizing it should be the chief purpose of history study.
First of all, although advanced technologies such as telephones, TVs, internet and lap-top computers have changed our daily lives immensely, the instinct of human beings does not change that much. An old Chinese saying said: "It's easier to destroy a country than to change a man." We human beings existed now through harsh trials as the so called natural selection, by which we gained many special characteristics that is deeply planted in our genes, such as competition and ambition for power. Also, the many weaknesses involved jealousy, greed, and selfishness has always been keeping a company with us from the time when the first caveman hided and stored food from his tribe, to the many wars in history during which large amount of soldiers and common residents died only for the fulfillment of their kings, till now there is still stealing and lying among us for the sake of personality defects. Besides, accompany with us are still unchanging morals; love, kindness, tolerance and appreciation of beauty closely connect us with our ancestors.
There are numbers of rewards for understanding that. When heightened the awareness of the connection between people from different periods, we would feel safe thus know better how to gain knowledge and avoid or solve problems according to the experience from ancestors. Assuming that if a scientist confronts of a man-sided question which coincidently has been pondered over by an ancient scientist, in result of despising the intelligence of ancient people, he may brush pass an inspiring idea. Thanks to the study of scientific history, we all know that ancient people are as clever as, sometimes more clever than, modern scientists, and predecessors’ works have enlightened them on many significant inventions and discoveries. In addition, the sense of connected with the past can strengthen faith and courage in face of the future, as well as conquer the feeling of loneliness and helpless which has recently taken place in high mechanized society.
However, although humans ourselves haven’t changed significantly, we cannot ignore the obvious truth that the relationship between human and the nature does change a lot. In antiquity, people’s lives totally relied on and were controlled by the natural environment. They cannot change the natural world. Toward the nature, their attitude is respect even worship. After the industril revolution, people changed weather, cut down forests, thought they had conquered the nature. Nowadays, we realize nature is not to be conquered , but to be cooperated with. Hence, if we blind our eyes and narrow our minds so that we can only see human beings ourselves in the lengthy history, we may not exist long in the future because of our arrogance.
In addition, we should not ignore those detriments caused by one-sided attitude towards history. In fact, to claim that nor people or our relationship with nature has changed much is negative viewed from several aspects. Firstly, it unfairly prevents us to take notice to our great effort and progress to gain a better understanding of the world and become a better specie. Secondly, it will strongly upset those who believe in advancement and works hard for a better future. Besides, in fact, we are becoming more tolerant towards different culture, strange people and groups holding opposite opinions, we are protecting the environment from polluting: all indicate that we are becoming more cultural. In short, seeing only the similarities without improvements between us and our ancestors is not only harmful but also untrue.
To sum up, although people haven’t changed essentially in different period of time, we need to look for a bit more balance between similarities and differences, while broaden our outlook beyond humans. |
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