issue48 求拍，这个话题真难写...

algabraUID: 2748722

TOPIC: ISSUE48 - "The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."

Some people claim that common people should be paid more attention of historians, since the most significant events and trends in history were made possible by just these nameless people instead of the few heroes. Despite the reason is true, this claim ignores the possibility of studying common people’s straits. Furthermore, acquaintance of these people could also be made indirectly through studying the famous few.

First of all, I strongly agree that common people, instead of heroes, are the real source of strength which promotes the history forward. It is trivial citizens, even slavers, who cultivate spacious farm, herd cattle and horse, make clothes and build houses. The wealth they created consist material basis necessary for the development of all societies. And their will were as important as their labor. Sometimes their power was so weak that it was ignore, but when accumulating to some extent this power could determine the history. Though heroes in the history seemed to change the trends of history by their efforts only, they were indeed relied on the support of common people. They discerned the trends of history and utilized the chances emerged to fulfill great achievements, but the trends were made by accumulated efforts of common people. Without support of groups of common people, heroes were not capable of change the history by him himself.

However, research in history is a little different from the real process of history. It is much more difficult for historians to study common people who lived long time age than study those shining names. There were little materials remained about them. On the contrary, many records could help us know much about those great individuals. Therefore historians had to place great emphasis on those famous individuals instead. Perhaps in the future, thanks to modern technologies and saving methods such as cameras, DV, blogs, future historians could be able to put as much emphasis on common people as on heroes when they study the time we live in. But nowadays it is too far from reality.

On the other hand, the individuals studied carefully are outstanding representatives of general people and we still could learn much about common civilians in every periods of history. For example, we could learn the thirst for freedom of slavers through the struggle of Spartacus, the sorrows suffered by black people through Martin Luther King’s experiences. If only we do not forget the general majority behind the famous few, we can still touch them through those heroes.

To sum up, only through studying significant heroes and their traits could we master the process of history. Even so, we are still able to avoid ignoring those people who worked hard to promote the proceeding of human societies.



好多话我都不知道怎么用英文表达...麻烦版上大牛帮忙看看~  非常感谢！

plukaUID: 2721764

1、首段：Despite（+that） the reason is true, XXX
2、B1：It is trivial citizens, even slavers, who cultivate spacious farm, herd cattle and horse, make clothes and build houses. The wealth they created consist（consists of） material basis necessary for the development of all societies. And their will were as important as their labor.（求发展，哪些will？为何说important？） Sometimes their power（觉得可以联系一下will跟power。作者是觉得二者相似咩？或许是我鲤鱼了，但第一遍看的时候觉得这两句有点跳跃。个人以为意愿跟力量是不同的，前者主观，后者客观。在后文的发展（英雄识时务民众做基础）中把这两方面都address一下如何）was so weak that it was ignore, but when accumulating to some extent this power could determine the history.
3、B2：OK，来点例子就更活泼了，不要多，一两句就好。
4、B3：求阐述：为何大人物能作为民众的代表？（话说，俺会忍不住反驳有些历史名人变态得很一点也不大众~，所以请解释why they're representative from the aspect of history studying）


语言不错，论述得也OK，看得出有一定基础，加油！

algabraUID: 2748722

2# pluka

谢谢小螃蟹~ 我以为要被无视了呢... 你提的意见很中肯，都是我概念比较模糊、思路不大清楚的地方，谢谢你帮我指出来~ ：-）