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本帖最后由 rodgood 于 2009-11-23 00:42 编辑
11.22-第四次作业之五
argument6
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=927700&highlight
"In order to save a considerable amount of money, Rockingham's century-old town hall should be torn down and replaced by the larger and more energy-efficient building that some citizens have proposed. The old town hall is too small to comfortably accommodate the number of people who are employed by the town. In addition, it is very costly to heat the old hall in winter and cool it in summer. The new, larger building would be more energy efficient, costing less per square foot to heat and cool than the old hall. Furthermore, it would be possible to rent out some of the space in the new building, thereby generating income for the town of Rockingham."
WORDS: 391
TIME: 00:25:46
DATE: 2009/3/12 10:40:26
Citing the comparison between the old hall and new hall, the author comes to the conclusion that on the purpose of saving money, Rockingham' century-old town hall should be torn down and replaced by the larger and more energy-efficient building. However, this argument is based on a series of unproven assumptions, which render it unconvincing as it stands.
One such assumption is that the new hall will save energy. Even though the new one will be more energy efficient, costing less per square foot, the author ignores the fact the new hall is far larger than the old hall. In which case(这里是定语从句?那which的先行词在哪里呢?应该用In this case), the overall costs of the new hall would be no less, perhaps more than the energy costs of the old hall. Unless the author could provide exact data to demonstrate the new hall can really save energy, his assumption is dubious.
The author's claim that building the new hall will save a considerable amount of money is open to doubt. On the one hand, tearing down the old hall and building the new hall is considerably money-consuming. The author does not inform the exact amount of money needed; maybe it might lead the town council to budget strain. On the other hand, the author mentions some of the space could be rented out to generate income. However, people might not be willing to rent the hall, in which case, the town would not get any revenue.(这个理由仿佛牵强了点。可以尝试分析如果租出去可能影响comfortably accommodate the number of people who are employed by the town,与修新礼堂的理由之一矛盾) In short, without providing solid evidences that building new hall would save money, the author's proposal is unpersuasive.
前两段的反驳仿佛都说的是同一个方面,即修新的礼堂会花更多的钱。然而分析却不是很深刻。
Finally, as the current hall is century-old, it might have historic values. For example, the old hall might be a famous tourist site of town, which attracts thousands of tourists every year. Or perhaps, the old hall might have certain special meaning in the local residents' minds. They might regard the hall as the symbol of the town. If either of the cases is true, the old hall's merits far outweigh the new one's advantages.
这点自己倒没有想到,是个很好的思想。但是可以尝试再论证多一点。
另外还可以针对旧礼堂冬天的加热和夏天的降温分析一下。比如说语气重新修房子,不如改进空调系统,既解决了问题,花费也不会太大。
All in all, this argument relies on certain unwarranted assumptions and therefore specious at best. To convince readers to accept his/her conclusion that replacing the old hall with new one, the author should provide information on whether the new hall will save energy(文中几乎没有提到energy的反驳) and save a considerable amount of money, and last but not least, the old hall' historic values.
argument7
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=926446&highlight
TOPIC: ARGUMENT137 - The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper.
"At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of recreational activity, even though surveys of the region's residents consistently rank water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be avoiding the river because they think that it is not clean enough. But that situation is about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to clean up Mason River. Therefore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly owned lands along the Mason River."
WORDS: 416 TIME: 00:30:00 DATE: 2009/3/9 16:28:42
In this augument, the author drew the conclution about the increase of recreational use of the Mason River, after his/her seemingly convincing procedure of reasoning, and suggested the City council to increase the budget for the improvement of lands along Mason River. As far as I see it, this argument omits some sunbstential information, and therefor suffers some logical fallacies.
第一句话感觉逗号乱打,状语混乱。有悖于英语语法和习惯。
To begin with, the author falsely established a causal relationship between the complaint about the quality of the water and the seldom using of the nearby River for recreational activity. Although the two things happened simultaneously, but there are pobably many other reasons for seldom using of the water, too. (although 和 but 只能留一个)For example, in the city there is a swimming pool, which supplies a good service and has new infrastructure. So the residents prefer going there to siwmming(swim) in the river. Like swimming pool, other places, such as park and artifical lack(lake), will attract people as well. Without providing us the information about other places in the city, the author's assumption is invalid.
这里因果关系分析得很好,值得自己学习。
In addition, can the annoucement about cleaning up Mason River by the agency make the use of river increased? Even assuming that the residents seldom use the River, because they worried the quality of the water, a promise about cleaning up cannot make the river really clean at(in) a short time. (这里也是断句有问题)The environmental restore will take a relative long time, as we know. Moreover, the author did not tell us the detail of the cleaning plan. When does begin it, and how does the agency put it into practice? So the author's conclution about a increase of use of the water lacks credibility.
Last but not least, the author's suggestion is also doubtful. Even if the river can be cleaned up, it is not clear that why the council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the lands along the Mason River?(应该是句号) Can this plan represent the residents' real will? It is entirely possible that a majority of residents want to keep these lands wild as before, so that they can get a real relax in the nature. The author did not show the oppinion of the residents, therefore the final suggestion may be not proper.
这里在政策的颁布上考虑民意的思考值得借鉴。以后遇到类似问题应该往这方面考虑。
To sum up, in this argument, the evidence is not enough to support waht the author maintained. To strenghten, more information, such as a introduce of the city, a detailed plan about cleaning up the river and a poll about the improvement of lands, are necessary.
作者的逻辑思维值得自己学习,论证的节节深入很容易理解和产生共鸣。
但是似乎作者的基本功不是太扎实,表现在单词拼写和句子断句混乱上。
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