Issue 120

Jamin_CheungUID: 2752925

ISSUE120 - "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."
WORDS: 619
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-2-7 17:24:11

As we all know, these years have seen great changes in every aspects of our society. With more and more complexities adding to our life, hot debate comes to us whether some experience from the antecedents can guide us for living in the present as it did in the past. Opposed to the claim that the speakers makes, I deem that the experience of the past remains treasure for us in both avoiding repeating silly mistakes and in advancing our society. Yet, when we consider the new and complicated problems, these precious suggetions should be applied into practice flexibly.

Why are we continuing to study on history from generation to generation? One of the reasons that we inherit the habit is that history can help us avoid making same or similar mistakes which once happened in old times. We can observe the condition of Soviet Union during the domination under Stalin. Much as he had done to develop Soviet Union into a better country, he cultivated a cult of personality of his which misleaded the direction of a whole country's advancement with ignorance of others’ recommendation and brought a serious of problems. Take the famine during the nineteenth century in Soviet Union for example. After deep researches into the history, some researchers claims that the cause of the famine at that moment should be blamed for more the wrong policies of Stalin than the natural condition. Had the people not be wrongheaded by the cult of personality and evaluated these policies fairly and scientificly, there would have been much less people who died from the severe famine. From such stories about cult of personality towards Stalin in Soviet Union and Mao in China, the public have realized the harm of cult personality and become much more cautious to governmental policies. Thus, the understanding of the past provides advice to us not to do something wrong and to keep alert to repeat same mistakes.

Besides, learning from the past, we are informed much to improve current conditions, especially in science. Newton said that if he was able to see furthur, it was only because he stood on the shoulders on the giants. The original ideas and innovations tend to generate more ideas later. Looking back to the innovation that human beings might fly in sky like birds and many failures in experiments, Wright Brothers succeeded in creating the first plane, realizing the long-expected dream. It's obvious that no matter successful or unsuccessful experience from the ancetedents are paving a road for us now.

However, we must realize that with the rapid development, some new and complex problems which our ancestors had never met with emerge in our life. We can gain little guidance to get grisp with cloning because in the past human being had never reached such a high level of science and techonology. Should we let alone the development of science and techonology and turn a blind eye on its studies, which may give rise to unexpected problems such as illegal trades of organs? This time, we seem to appeal to little guidance the past offers. In fact, it is conflict between science and ethics, an important issue that we have devoted time to dealing with since the appearance of science. There is no correct answer in past and we ought to explore by ourshelves. We have to evaluate the balance of science and ethics according to various condition flexibly.

To sum up, an understanding of the past offers to us for living in the present is a large precious present from our ancestors. Never should we overlook and stop learning from them. Even if faced with new problems that the antecedents fail to give correct answers, we continue on their way to lead the society to a better one.

quechuangyiUID: 2761926

As we all know, these years have seen great changes in every aspects of our society.

With more and more complexities adding（added） to our life, hot debate comes to us

whether some experience from the antecedents can guide us for living in the present as

it did in the past. Opposed to the claim that the speakers makes, I deem that the

experience of the past remains treasure for us in both avoiding repeating silly mistakes and

in advancing our society. Yet, when we consider the new and complicated problems,

these precious suggetions should be applied into practice flexibly.
（开头点明反对过去对现在无用，同时指出过去经验在避免重蹈覆辙和改善社会有用，但还是

灵活运用。）

Why are we continuing to study on history from generation to generation? One of the

reasons that we inherit the habit is that history can help us avoid making same or similar

mistakes which once happened in old times. We can observe the condition of Soviet

Union during the domination under Stalin. Much as he had done to develop Soviet Union

into a better country, he cultivated a cult of personality of his which misleaded the

direction of a whole country's advancement with ignorance of others’ recommendation

and brought a serious of problems（这个句子长的让你出了很多语法错误。。。可以稍加改

造一下，这样也显得明白点）. Take the famine during the nineteenth century in Soviet

Union for example. After deep researches into the history, some researchers claims that

the cause of the famine at that moment should be blamed for more the wrong policies of

Stalin than the natural condition. Had the people not be wrongheaded by the cult of

personality and evaluated these policies fairly and scientificly, there would have been much

less people who died from the severe famine. From such stories about cult of personality

towards Stalin in Soviet Union and Mao in China, the public have realized the harm of cult

personality（cult of personality 或者 personality cult 都行，就是没有cult personality） and

become much more cautious to governmental policies. Thus, the understanding of the

past provides advice to us not to do something wrong and to keep alert to repeat same

mistakes.（对于斯大林的例子讲述的过于冗长，对于毛却只是一笔带过，在美国人看来，他们

两个人都应该是同样陌生的吧？应该从斯大林那里分一点笔墨写毛。或者直接写毛，还比较顺

手一点，反正不管在美国人眼中还是对于本段来说，两个例子作用同等。不知道你赞不赞成。

）

Besides, learning from the past, we are informed （of）much to improve current

conditions, especially in science. Newton said that if he was able to see furthure, it was

only because he stood on the shoulders of the giants. The original ideas and innovations

tend to generate（用”激发“更好吧？inspire？） more ideas later. Looking back to the

innovation that human beings might fly in sky like birds and many failures in experiments,

Wright Brothers succeeded in creating the first plane, realizing the long-expected dream.

It's obvious that no matter successful or unsuccessful experience from the ancetedents

are paving a road for us now. （从牛顿的话和怀特兄弟的例子，最后一句说不管成功或失败

的例子都是有用的，貌似连起来有点牵扯。）

However, we must realize that with the rapid development, some new and complex

problems which our ancestors had never met with emerge in our life. We can gain little

guidance to get grisp with cloning because in the past human being had never reached

such a high level of science and techonology. （为使主题句更突出，是否考虑将第一句放在

第二句后面，作为一个分句出现？）Should we let alone the development of science and

techonology and turn a blind eye on its studies, which may give rise to unexpected

problems such as illegal trades of organs? This time, we seem to appeal to little guidance

the past offers. In fact, it is conflict between science and ethics, an important issue that

we have devoted time to dealing with since the appearance of science. There is no

correct answer in past and we ought to explore by ourshelves. We have to evaluate the

balance of science and ethics according to various condition flexibly.
（按照第一段给我的hint指示，这一段应该在写要灵活运用过去经验上，所以我觉得用克隆这

个例子并不是很有说服力，应该举一个过去经验大致能用但需要稍加修改的例子，这样才与你

的立场更相合吧？尽管你也知道有些问题历史是不能回答的，但我们在这里是要反对”过去经验

无用说“。。。。）

To sum up, an understanding of the past offers to us for living in the present is a large

precious present from our ancestors. Never should we overlook and stop learning from

them. Even if faced with new problems that the antecedents fail to give correct answers,

we continue on their way to lead the society to a better one. （此段最后一句话本应从倒

二总结而来，但似乎对主题倡导向过去学习并无直接帮助。）
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Jamin_CheungUID: 2752925

谢谢指证啊。
其实克隆那个例子是限时脑子短路没有找到灵活运用的例子……
2# quechuangyi

pigtingUID: 2761423

倒数第二天了呢~我看到你写的文章了，写得比我好多了，不敢妄批，先来给你充充人气，加加油！！！