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发表于 2003-7-16 06:08:15
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Issue94
"Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated."
这个话题很明显可以持同意立场,因为对于这种正面话题,很少有充足的反驳理由。所以,并不是任何issue都要刻意去找茬的。
I fundamentally agree with the proposition that students must take courses outside their major field of study to become "truly educated." A contrary position would reflect a too narrow view of higher education and its proper objectives. Nevertheless, I would caution that extending the proposition too far might risk undermining those objectives.第一段总的来说还是站支持立场的,但作者还是指出不能“过犹不及”。
The primary reason why I agree with the proposition is that "me" education amounts to far more than gaining the knowledge and ability to excel in one's major course of study and in one's professional career. True education also facilitates an understanding of one- self, and tolerance and respect for the viewpoints of others. Courses in psychology, sociology, and anthropology all serve these ends. "True" education also provides insight and perspective regarding one's place in society and in the physical and metaphysical worlds. Courses in political science, philosophy, theology, and even sciences such as astronomy and physics can help a student gain this insight and perspective. Finally, no student can be truly educated without having gained an aesthetic appreciation of the world around us--through course work in literature, the fine arts, and the performing arts.第二段着重陈述什么才叫做真正的education了,他从3个方面来论述自己对true education的定义。也就是说,要涉猎广泛才能成为全才。
Becoming truly educated also requires sufficient mastery of one academic area to permit a student to contribute meaningfully to society later in life. Yet, mastery of any specific area requires some knowledge about a variety of others. 注意这里的论证方法,指出专攻一门与涉足多门知识的相辅相成关系。For example, a political-science student can fully understand that field only by understanding the various psychological, sociological, and historical forces that shape political ideology. An anthropologist cannot excel without understanding the social and political events that shape cultures, and without some knowledge of chemistry and geology for performing field work. Even computer engineering is intrinsically tied to other fields, even non-technical ones such as business, communications, and media.
Nevertheless, the call for a broad educational experience as the path to becoming truly educated comes with one important caveat. A student who merely dabbles in a hodgepodge of academic offerings, without special emphasis on any one, becomes a dilettante lacking enough knowledge or experience in any single area to come away with anything valuable to offer.到了这一段也就指出在顾及其他学科的同时,决不能忽视自己的份内事了。不然这就好比蜻蜓点水,样样都不精了。 Thus in the pursuit of true education students must be careful not to overextend themselves----or risk defeating an important objective of education. 既然前面已经就正面立场作了较详细地论述,而且作者也洒了重墨在那儿,所以,这一段就没有多费口水了,不然反而会适得其反,喧宾夺主了。
In the final analysis, to become truly educated one must strike a proper balance in one's educational pursuits. Certainly, students should strive to excel in the specific requirements of their major course of study. However, they should complement those efforts by pursuing course work in a variety of other areas as well. By earnestly pursuing a broad education one gains the capacity not only to succeed in a career, but also to find purpose and meaning in that career as well as to understand and appreciate the world and its peoples. To gain these capacities is to become "truly educated."
全文无太多的难词,但是思维清晰,观点鲜明,这一点是值得借鉴的,但我觉得还是缺乏必要的贴近我们时代的例子,作者还是以说理为主,相比较于6分范文,还是缺少必要的有深度的句子。不过,这篇不失为一篇好文章。 |
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