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ValentinerUID: 121676

ISSUE99
In any realm of life—whether academic, social, business, or political—the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options.

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The issue focuses on the classic dilemma between reality and ideal. Naturally, it seems that it is practical rather than idealistic point of view leads to success eventually as the speaker asserts. Admittedly, pragmatic behavior does great contributions to one's survival and success, however, I argue that idealistic views are of the equal, if not more, significance as realistic ones.

On one hand, it is true that success calls for the pragmatic behavior, without which success is just an illusion. There is an old saying (which I paraphrase); success is not made by dreams but by practice. Even if the ideal is fantastic, it will decay easily if there are no realistic actions to make it true. Take Utopia for example. Those who advocated the establishment of Utopia believed that Utopia would be the best society. Unfortunately, they did nothing but making dreams of a perfect living environment for human beings, and ignore some vital and practical problems which they would be confronted with in the process of founding Utopia. The failure of Utopia is a good lesson showing that without practical views one can hardly succeed, no matter how hard he/she tries.

On the other hand, ideal is usually compared to the lighthouse that guides people to navigate to where he/she desires to. Ideal gives one the courage and adherence to his/her dreams, and motivates people to endeavor to realize their dreams. Take Helen Kaler for example. Although blind, deaf and dumb, she never gives up the ideal to become a writer. She made every effort to realize her dream, even if she would suffer much more than others due to her disability. Consequently, she succeeded in turning her ideal into reality. Just imagine that without her adherence to ideal which seemed impossible at the very beginning, how could she become such a great writer today? Ideal gives rise to the belief in the success, the adherence to dreams, and the courage to keep on pursuing.

Fortunately, reality and ideal, however, are not mutually exclusive, thus it is totally possible to reconcile the two so that we may develop ourselves more effectively and beneficially. According to a survey conducted by several socialists in Greenwich University in Britain, over 80% of those who gained great achievements in various areas such as politics, art, science and business, have set up the goals of being outstanding at very early age, and then make every effort to achieve the goals. Almost all who have been interviewed owned their later excellence to the early dream to become outstanding. The later success of them can best illustrate the significance of combination of reality and ideal.

On balance, idealistic view is the motivation of one's future success, while practical action provides the possibility to realizing the ideal. Once set up an ideal, one should spare no efforts to turn it into reality. On the contrary, if indulged in ideal realm, one will get nothing but merely imagination.
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caleUID: 150437

The issue focuses on the classic dilemma between reality and ideal. Naturally, it seems that it is practical rather than idealistic point of view leads to success eventually as the speaker asserts. Admittedly, pragmatic behavior does great contributions to one's survival and success, however, I argue that idealistic views are of the equal, if not more, significance as realistic ones.

On one hand, it is true that success calls for the pragmatic behavior, without which success is just an illusion. There is an old saying (which I paraphrase); success is not made by dreams but by practice. Even if the ideal is fantastic, it will decay easily if there are no realistic actions to make it true. Take Utopia for example. Those who advocated the establishment of Utopia believed that Utopia would be the best society. Unfortunately, they did nothing but making dreams of a perfect living environment for human beings, and ignore(ignored) some vital and practical problems which they would be confronted with in the process of founding Utopia. The failure of Utopia is a good lesson showing that without practical views one can hardly succeed, no matter how hard he/she tries.

On the other hand, ideal is usually compared to the lighthouse that guides people to navigate to where he/she desires to. Ideal gives one the courage and adherence to his/her dreams, and motivates people to endeavor to realize their dreams. Take Helen Kaler for example. Although blind, deaf and dumb, she never gives up the (her)ideal to become a writer. She made every effort to realize her dream, even if she would suffer much more than others due to her disability. Consequently, she succeeded in turning her ideal into reality. Just imagine that without her adherence to ideal which seemed impossible at the very beginning, how could she become such a great writer today? Ideal gives rise to the belief in the(去掉吧) success, the adherence to dreams, and the courage to keep on pursuing.（我觉得这段的论证有点离题，给我的感觉像是在说明一个目标对人成功的重要性，对这一点我也不肯定，关键这里的ideal应该怎么理解，一个比较有挑战的目标算是ideal吗？ 还是只有像共产主义和绝对的民主这种短期内达不到的理想才算是ideal,我会关注你的回帖，和你讨论一下？）
Fortunately, reality and ideal, however, are not mutually exclusive, thus it is totally possible to reconcile the two so that we may develop ourselves more effectively and beneficially. According to a survey conducted by several socialists in Greenwich University in Britain, over 80% of those who gained great achievements in various areas such as politics, art, science and business, have set up the goals of being outstanding at very early age, and then make every effort to achieve the goals. Almost all who have been interviewed owned their later excellence to the early dream to become outstanding. The later success of them can best illustrate the significance of combination of reality and ideal. 这一段好想并没有提及若reality的作用呀，怎么着也得提一句呀，呵呵，而且这也有对ideal的理解问题。

On balance, idealistic view is the motivation of one's future success, while practical action provides the possibility to realizing the ideal. Once set up an ideal, one should spare no efforts to turn it into reality. On the contrary, if indulged in ideal realm, one will get nothing but merely imagination.

ValentinerUID: 121676

我对ideal的理解就是理想,包括可以实现和不可实现的,也可以理解成你所说的目标.有了ideal,人们就会为之而去奋斗,从而更可能成功,而不能保证成功.即it will not guarantee the success, but the pay-off will be worth the efforts.
第三段关于reality和ideal的论述是不太详细,没有说清楚二者之间的结合,我会再做修改的!

绞尽脑汁UID: 143951

字数不少啦，呵呵~

caleUID: 150437

可是题中提出的是practical和idealistic的对应，我感觉应该在论述当中体现这两方面的内容，显然，practical代表的是实际的，其相对的一面就应该是不实际的即理想主义的，我觉得理想主义的目标和理想还是又很大差别的，呵呵，其实我也不知道这样追究题中的词义有没有必要。

uocasiiUID: 143445

我刚刚写了这片issue，idealistic point of view应该是个贬义词，是“空想观念”，但是如果写成ideal就好像又是褒义词了，是说“有理想”。到底应该怎样理解呢？我个人偏向于那些在短期内无法实现的理想：）

ValentinerUID: 121676

想了一下，如果说是空想的话，那写起来会不会觉得有些绝对呢？
记得原来刚开始写的时候，这里就有人对我说要尽量避免绝对化，因为ETS要的是critical thinking，那是不是折中一下，把ideal理解成上面所说的理想和空想之间会比较好一些呢？这样为后面的让步也可以做些铺垫。

uocasiiUID: 143445

关键我们是在理解“idealistic view”，如果是有理想，应该不是观点和态度的问题，而是一个人具备的素质。而“simpler, more immediate options”明显就是在说我们在遇到问题的时候应该采取更为实际的态度，而不是凭空想象就可以了。哈哈。。不过这样的话，是不是限制了思路？

caleUID: 150437

我还是觉得practical的对立面应该是理想化的，不太实际的，比如说理想气体，对他的研究虽然不能直接用于实际生产，但却对研究真是气体有着知道作用，这种理想模型应该就属于idealistic point of view 的范畴。

ValentinerUID: 121676

那如果是各位这样说的话,我就又写跑题了:(
那再请教一下,如果是"空想"的意思的话,似乎不太好展开,我打算重写这一篇,希望大家帮我想想思路吧!

uocasiiUID: 143445

好！支持你！我写的那片跟你的意思差不多，“空想”是很难写的啊！