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发表于 2010-7-24 15:46:32
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本帖最后由 figuechen 于 2010-7-26 13:09 编辑
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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."
WORDS: 503-674
TIME: 00:41:38
DATE: 2010-7-24 11:09:47
It is true that the study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. And I agree with the statement above that the significant events and trends, no matter in what kind of fields, may be led by the famous few, but must be made the groups of unknown people.
[恩?最后一句什么意思来着。。。漏了一个by吧?还是不要把这两个放在一句话里吧,感觉意思怪怪的。。。]
Art is an important part of history, which represents the culture, value and taste of people in a certain time. However, most of us just remember several famous artists or some worldwide known artifacts, but know a little about other unfamous [infamous] artists who were the indispensable component of an era's art trend, and never mention the workers or supports who made an essential contribution to the accomplishment of those artifacts. For the Cologne Cathedral as an example, it is wildly famous for the Gothic sharp arch and beautiful stained glasses. Whilst actually, it was under construction for nearly six hundred years, and almost no one knows the names of those genius workers and designers. And it is entire obvious [entire好像可以去掉吧,完全显然?显然就够了] that without these unknown people's ideas and endeavors, the Cologne Cathedral is impossible to be the way as it is today. This happens the same [这个有语法错误,the same happens就可以了] when people study the trend of art. Monet and Van Gogh are the renowned representatives of Impressionism; however, the trend of art was surely not developed on those several few. Other unfamiliar painters were also improper to neglect due to it is their works that made impressionism complete and colorful. Therefore, we can find that the study of art history just notices the several amazing artifacts and some artists, but pay a little attention to other important supporters and parts.
[这段用艺术为例,说明了历史遗忘了普通人。]
The study of politics is a never ending topic of history, and what the rulers achieved or did wrongly is always under heat discussion. However, without their forgotten followers and conductors, I believe no policy could lay any influence on the general people. And the policy would simply be a piece of paper if no one helped the rulers to make it come true. We may familiar with the New Deal of F.D Roosevelt, which helped American economies recovered quickly from the Depression and Second World War. But how many of us remember the name of Roosevelt's colleagues who played an important role in conducting that New Deal and realize each step of the policy. Without their support and work, I think it is impossible to achieve the great success as we know it today. While these folks' names have been long forgotten or even never mentioned. According, it is a fact that people who study the history of politics just remember the policy makers or rulers, but forget those who worked behind.
[这段以政治为例,例子用了罗斯福新政,还是很恰当的。]
Science and technology is another significant part of history, and it happens the same that we just simply honor those famous few who achieved great success, but never mention the ancestors working ahead who laid a indispensable foundation to the new achievements and also forget their follow workers who helped them in the process of experiments and researchers. Actually, no breakthrough could be made merely by one single person and his or her own intelligence. [这句好像有点太绝对,不过我不知道这个是不是靠谱:我记得牛顿和爱因斯坦好像都是独立地搞出了自己的研究成果的。也有很多科研成果是个人搞出来的。另外数学这种学科,似乎也是单飞的比较多吧] Most of us know John von Neumann who invented the first computer EINAC whose development has totally changed everyone’s life pattern in whole world. But rare people have ever heard the name of John Napier who initially built the basic theory of computers thirty years ago before the first computer was ever made. In addition, Nobel is well-known for inventing the bomb and Edison is famous for making the bulb, but who knows their assistants’ names? Without their helping behind, how could these great scientists have achieved the success? Hence, it is true that when we study the history of science, little attention was laid to the scientists who made the useful basic theory and co-workers who backed the well-known scientists.
[这段用科学为例,说明了论点。但是遗憾的是作者并没有说明那些科学家的助手们到底做了什么工作,对成果有多大的贡献。如果能再详细地说明一下他们的存在不可或缺,那就能更好地切题了。因为你的例子总是在说没有了他们,那些成果就不可能有,但缺乏证据,有点主观臆断的感觉。]
From the discussion above, we can safely find the conclusion that the majority truly just remember those famous few artists, rulers and scientists, but neglect other important followers, workers and supporters.
[我觉得开头和结尾有点小矛盾。开头说是任何历史,而结尾却变成了科学、政治和艺术史,这两者还是有区别的。像作者这种分段落写的文章,我觉得最关键的是要理清段落之间的逻辑关系,要能在最后提升一下思想的高度。以这篇文章为例,你说明了科学、政治和艺术史的情况,但是没有办法说明其它无数个学科的历史。所以比较好的分法是分成人文科学和自然科学,或其它诸如此类的能概括所有学科的分法;或者是作者能够说明科学、政治和艺术这三个学科对社会上的所有学科有普遍类比性,因此可以得出相同的结论。如果没有最后的一个升华,就感觉文章只是罗列了三个不同方面的事实,却缺乏自己的归纳和思想。]
一点小意见,仅供作者参考,有不妥之处恳请指教。 |
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