Issue45 政府依靠自己的判断？ 500字，100分钟

galaxysongUID: 152834

Issue 45
"Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carrying out the will of the people whom they serve."
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Despite of good will firmly held by many people, government officials, although on principle regarded as servants for the public, cannot realize people's demands and claims in an entirely loyal and obedient way. Otherwise, without firm self-dependence when coping with public issues, the officials will defeat their purpose to serve the people due to mistaken decisions and executions.

To begin with, common sense informs us that different groups of people are always conflicting in public affairs, and a good government is the one that is wise and adamant enough to stand on the right side. Take the controversial abortion for example. Some reasonable people, impressed by the miserable children who should not have born or just were born at wrong time, call for abortion to prevent these babies from coming to this world that doesn't welcome them. On the other hand, a considerable number of others cling to human right and link abortion with murder. Since the policy on abortion concerns lives, the government must be very cautious in decision making and implementing, listening to and questioning both sides.

Policies signed and enforced by the government require consistency in a time period, or they would risk neutralizing each other and even eliciting disorders among the confused citizens. Thereby, the government is destined to abandon and thus offend many, if not most, people in one issue or another. The question, then, is how to maximize the return of the unavoidable losses of both the interests of the public and the reputation of the government.

This question can hardly gain a well-supported and reasoned answer merely from the mass. Common people concern their day-to-day lives and often focus on short-term effects. Moreover, without the duty and responsibility of social policy making, one usually talks about significant social issues very casually. Turning to the anti-abortionists again. Some of them are very satisfied about their show on TV as protectors of lives, while having never thought about what on earth life is and what lives the children who ought to be aborted would otherwise lead. Understandably, these people appeal to emotion much more than reason, and give the government more trouble than help.

Only an iota part of the public who are particularly devoted in study and cogitation about social issues can proffer constructive suggestions. They, consisting of some entrepreneurs, scholars, social activists and so forth, are the ones that the government can and should rely on. However, it is the government, not they, that must be responsible to the outcome of policies. In addition, they have different or mutually opposing views as well. The roles of these people, therefore, are consultants at best. The duty of policy making and implementing still falls on the government itself.

The government is supposed to collect valuable information from the public, especially from the most consultable ones, and then construct rational and legitimate policies as a balance of the wills of the public. Government officials thus have to depend on their own clairvoyance at last. Otherwise, being shifty in front of the public demands like weeds in winds only lead to political failure and social loss. Just as Shakespeare puts, "love all, trust a few."
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[ Last edited by yogurt4 on 2005-8-22 at 01:05 ]

wglxhUID: 152604

原文
Despite of good will firmly held by many peopleDespite good will of many people, government officials, although onin principle regarded as servants for the publicpublic servants, cannot realize people's demands and claims in an entirely loyal and obedient way.还需要修改，太罗嗦：cannot cleave to people's demands and claims就足以表达你要说的意思了 Otherwise我觉得你想表达的是besides, without firm self-dependence when coping with 过于不正式了，handle或其他public issues, the officials will defeat their purpose to serve the people due to mistaken decisions and executions.这句话比较通顺但很罗嗦，有时间改一下吧

考试在即,速度还要再快一些.

galaxysongUID: 152834

in principle
原则上；大致上；通常
They agree to the plan in principle.
他们原则上同意这个计划。
on principle
按照原则（或道德标准）；根据原则（或道德标准）
1 为什么on principle不行呢？

2 cannot obey people's demands and claims如何？

3 the officials will fail in their mission.

4 我当然急切地希望能提高速度。正在努力。

cynosure007UID: 147992

我看了一下你的文章，总体还是不错的，只是有几个小错误，如be responsible for而不是用to,human rights,最后一段的not they 给人感觉很生硬。
另外，policy making 是什么意思？

so猫UID: 148633

Issue 45
"Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carrying out the will of the people whom they serve."
------------------------
9:34
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Despite of good will firmly held by many people, government officials, although on principle regarded as servants for the public, cannot realize people's demands and claims in an entirely loyal and obedient way. Otherwise, without firm self-dependence when coping with public issues, the officials will defeat their purpose to serve the people due to mistaken decisions and executions.

To begin with, common sense informs us that different groups of people are always conflicting in public affairs, and a good government is the one that[这个the one that这里感觉好废话 直接说后面的不好吗？] is wise and adamant enough to stand on the right side. Take the controversial abortion for example. Some reasonable people, impressed by the miserable children who should not have born or just were born at wrong time, call for abortion to prevent these babies from coming to this world that doesn't welcome them. On the other hand, a considerable number of others cling to human right and link abortion with murder. Since the policy on abortion concerns lives, the government must be very cautious in decision making and implementing, listening to and questioning both sides.

Policies signed and enforced by the government require consistency in a time period, or they would risk neutralizing each other and even eliciting disorders among the confused citizens. Thereby, the government is destined to abandon and thus offend many, if not most, people in one issue or another. The question, then, is how to maximize the return of the unavoidable losses of both the interests of the public and the reputation of the government.

This question can hardly gain a well-supported and reasoned answer merely from the mass. Common people concern their day-to-day lives and often focus on short-term effects. Moreover, without the duty and responsibility of social policy making, one usually talks about significant social issues very casually. Turning to the anti-abortionists again. Some of them are very satisfied about their show on TV as protectors of lives, while having never thought about what on earth life is and what lives the children who ought to be aborted would otherwise lead. [有一点点小不懂里面的关系哦 反对堕胎者和了解人生有很确切的关系吗？]Understandably, these people appeal to emotion much more than reason, and give the government more trouble than help. [这里我真的不懂了~~~]

Only an iota part of the public who are particularly devoted in study and cogitation about social issues can proffer constructive suggestions. They, consisting of some entrepreneurs, scholars, social activists and so forth, are the ones that the government can and should rely on. However, it is the government, not they, that [用that吗？]must be responsible to the outcome of policies. In addition, they have different or mutually opposing views as well. The roles of these people, therefore, are consultants at best. The duty of policy making and implementing still falls on the government itself.

The government is supposed to collect valuable information from the public, especially from the most consultable ones, and then construct rational and legitimate policies as a balance of the wills of the public. Government officials thus have to depend on their own clairvoyance at last. Otherwise, being shifty in front of the public demands like weeds in winds only lead to political failure and social loss. Just as Shakespeare puts, "love all, trust a few."[比喻句的结尾 个人很喜欢~~不过那个墙头草两边摇的比喻 英文里能直接变成weeds in winds吗？]
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忘记了 song什么时候考啊？
每次都觉得song的文章好深 不是很好懂
语言方面我觉得差不多了 不过速度还是好慢~~
加油罗~~~~

wglxhUID: 152604

没见过on principle的说法,WEBSTER上也只给出了IN.当然我现在家里没什么工具书,等开学回学校后我会进一步查证.在此之前,用IN保险一些.

galaxysongUID: 152834

Above all, I don't know why the title of this issue is "Issue48". It is odd that in my memory what I wrote was "Issue45".

To cynosure007:
<1>
In Kinsoft XDict("金山词霸") 2003 Professonal Edition, there is an entry "responsible for 为...负责/是造成...的原因". And under the entry "responsible" is two examples:
The bus driver is responsible for the passengers safety.
公共汽车司机应对乘客的安全负责。
The police are responsible for the preservation of public order and security.
警察有责任维护公共秩序和安全。
Although the XDict says "responsible" "（常与to, for连用）有责任的；应负责任的", no more presence of "responsible to" can be found.
Therefore, I guess "responsible for" is more popular.
<2>
The phrase "policy making" was an imitation of "decision making".
<3>
Other two suggestions of yours were right. Thank you.

To so猫:
You said: "反对堕胎者和了解人生有很确切的关系吗？" Of course not. But I meant "生命" here by "life". Can you give me any option to replace "life" in order to avoid ambiguity?

To wglxh:
I have an electronic edition of Webster, but it would be really a luxury for me to look up unfamiliar words in it as to perfectlt understand them. XDict is all right to me now.
By the way, is "weeds in winds" correct?

To pooh:
The first body was intended to argue that it is almotst impossible for the government to obey the will of the public since there are contradicting wills among the public. It was not the task of this paragraph, however, to discuss on which side the government should take in issues like abortion.

Last but not least, thank you all again!

so猫UID: 148633

weeds好象是指一大片一大片的杂草的 至少这个比喻我想了很久才明白是墙头草两头摇里面的那一根草的意思~~~~
至于生命啊 我总觉得这里用life我下意识的想到人生 你觉得用being 怎么样?(不过我觉得好哲学化啊~~~~)

KaliUID: 110664

墙头草两头摇 => fence-sitter

by the way, it's definitely "in principle", not "on principle"

galaxysongUID: 152834

All right, I will adopt "in principle" from now on.

By the way, would you please introduce yourself? You seem to be a bamboo of another section of GTer bbs, aren't you?

wglxhUID: 152604

现在的签名越整越酷,俺赶明儿也弄一个酷的.恩,想好了.叫"一句一杀",嘿嘿!

to galaxy:"weeds in wind"是不是成语我不知道,但是一个不错的比喻.语言不都是靠人想出来的么?所以大胆的用吧,不过前提是结合上下文能让人明白你的意思.

阿猫关于生命的思辩好敏感,嘿嘿!

KaliUID: 110664

>>By the way, would you please introduce yourself? You seem to be a bamboo of another section of GTer bbs, aren't you?

*laughs* Bamboo? Oh that one is great...

Anyhow, I'm finishing up my undergrad degree in the U.S. I used to be charge of the undergrad admission section and the 异乡岁月※海外申请 one, but I got bored of them.  So I'm at the overseas section now. 性格=无责任心无同情心无组织纪律性. 特点=见人说鬼话，见鬼说人话.

galaxysongUID: 152834

开来Kali属于穿梭阴阳的奇人。
“カカシ様の写輪眼”又是什么意思呢？