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angeikimUID: 4857

问标点用法的自己去看 THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE

genie05UID: 30358

可不可以把地址给出来啊，谢谢斑竹大人

dreamflyerUID: 21967

可是不在word里写的结果是错误多到手软，，，矛盾死了～～～
呵呵，俺就经常在文章开头用does，is，看来是禁忌啊，feier给俺提供了学习的好机会，imong给了俺当头棒喝。还有什么禁忌，牛g们一并透露一下吧：）

dreamflyerUID: 21967

十分能理解feier的心情，^_^

genie05UID: 30358

不是那个意思吧，是那个句子有语法错误

imongUID: 140258

昨天晚上发的帖子今天一看居然reply=14 （？！），而且还被刷到后边了（？！！）
重新发

分号的用法 The element of style 里边有（吗？忘了，我是在东方的“妙手”里边看到的），应该是前后都是完整单句又没有连接词的时候，如果不想用句号，就用分号了。

逗号是一个句子里边的小停顿，分号的停顿比句号短，比逗号长。体会一下。

imongUID: 140258

and

流鼻血只是一个coincidence，不要太紧张哦
有没有吓到你们啊

gambellUID: 122696

谢谢了，第一看见有人贴子上有偶的名字，感觉怪怪
另：
医学上证明，适当的放放血有利于促进血液再生，比如献血
偶决定了，考完了GWA就去鲜血，希望老天保佑我吧

imongUID: 140258

天……我想我要是去献血一定会晕的，虽然鼻血从小流到大，但是涉及到针的时候就……

还有，feier我可不会和你去喝酒的，你应该不会找这种500ml立刻倒下的人吧？
而且不知道现在alcohol里边到底有没有甲醛（formaldehyde），还是算了吧
扫兴哦

feier521UID: 109747

呵呵imong，酒量真差！！
还不如老师呢？
那我找老师啦。

genie05UID: 30358

呵呵，好象是我问的也，性别歧视吗？：）
不过我记得好象在用ＨＯＷＥＶＥＲ的时候常常会看见要改；
具体一点可以吗？很久没有碰这类东西了，纯理学下来就是这个下场，好多中文都不会了！满脑子的符号！

screwUID: 135321

170 "The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people." 7

Does the surest indicator of a great nation is the not the achievements of its elites, say the political leaders, artists, or scientists, etc. but the general welfare of its people, as the speaker asserts?（feier 你的问句我觉得怪怪的说…What is the surest indicator of a great nation? Is it the general welfare of all its people but the achievements of its elites say the….as the speaker asserts? 个人意见啰） Insofar as I think, the two facets are not mutually exclusive, what the achievements of the elites means is just the welfare of the people.

How to define the greatness of a nation? Undoubtedly, the achievements of its politicians, artists, and scientists can best determine whether a nation is progress or retrograde and at what degree it arrives. When people trace back the important historical improvement or comment on today's the development of a nation, they often resort to those who are representative and prompting ones for the reason that the roles they played are irreplaceable in such processes. For instance, many outstanding scientists in Industry Revolution were regarded as the main strength that brought the （不要the）today’s ever-growing scientific and technological advances. And the artists in the Renaissance, such as Vince, Michelangelo etc., were the forerunners of some artistic schools, many of their artworks were today’s classics that constitute the important part of cultural legacies through which a nation defines its cultural identity. Still, who makes China marching on an ever-growing road? The first man that emerges in people's mind is Deng Xiaoping, the designer and the operator of the market economy and opening-up policies. By the same token, when talking about the today’s advanced economic situations that American achieved, the contributions of Clinton and Bush can not（cannot喔…扣分:）） be denied.

However, the speaker fails to define the “general welfare” and mistakenly think（plus s） that the achievements of elites have nothing to do with people’s well-being. Actually, the achievements of the elites can not be separated with the welfare of their people, or else, what they did can not be called（how about respected?） as achievements at all. The former Soviet Union is just an apt case in point. The rulers of that time blindly developed overwhelming military strength which made their nation’s martial level arrive at the top throughout the world. Nonetheless, most of their citizens live in an inferior life, and even can not address the basic survival problems, does this so-called contribution was worth commending and therefore called as achievements? Definitely not. Otherwise, on no account do scientists make great achievements when they invent nuclear weapons which are applied to destroy people themselves and when they clone people themselves by using of the genetic technology.

Actually, the responsibilities of those elites should aim at improving the welfare of all the people in a nation. Only shouldering these duties can what they do can be defined as achievements, which will be the surest indicator of the greatness of a nation. For the rulers or the politicians, they should improve people's living standards, safeguard the nation's integrity and people's safety, in a word, they should make their nation more stable, peace, and prosperous; With respect to artists, they should exert their creativity and imagination to make more classic artworks in order to reflect the inner connotations and impulse of a society and ultimately improve people’s spiritual life and bring with them entertainment; When it comes to scientists, what they should is to make the research results conduce to people’s study, life, and work while avoid the potential negative impacts their research may produce. If so, the greatness, stability and the prosperity of nation is only the expected thing.

In summary, the surest indicator of a great nation is the achievements of its elites, and is boiled down to the welfare of its people. The two things are organic whole, general welfare is the end goal and primary purpose of individual achievements. （感觉第三段也需要类似这句来作为清楚的T.S.）Without considering the well-being of people, what elites do can not be labeled as achievements.

feier加油啊…放轻松…一定可以的….
祝好运 :D

feier521UID: 109747

screw 好久不见了？？！！现在怎么样？搞得什么研究啊？
很想你...
谢谢你的鼓励！

screwUID: 135321

我读材料的，都快开学了…:)
feier现在也读研吗?
别紧张了，以你的程度一定可以的 ^_^