关于not… but… 题的再思考

xiaoheUID: 162707

在PPV3中有这样一道作文题：
ISSUE TOPIC: "Wisdom is rightfully attributed not to people who know what to look for in life but to people who know what to overlook."
（本人试译：智慧并非人们知道人生中应寻求什么，而恰是人们知道应忽略什么。）

按照通常的思路，如果只认同两个选项中的一个，对另一个选项是否就要批驳一下，或让步一下？
但这篇范文只在第一段说了一句：subject to the proviso that the achievement of wisdom may well also involve other traits or attributes，然后就通篇论述为什么 wisdom is attributed to people who know what to overlook. 自始至终都没有表达对另一面的观点。

是否可以这样认为：在这种是非选择题中，只选择二者之一项充分论证为“真”，同时盖个大帽子，说明此项并非唯一的“真”项，也能行得通？

照以上的结论，以下这些题是不是至少有一种写法——只证明一个选项为“真”而忽略另一个选项？但我总担心有什么不对的地方。谁能谈谈看法，帮我分析一下呢？

issue5. "A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer."

issue118 "In any field of endeavor—the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, industry, etc.—it is not the attainment of a goal that matters, but rather the ideas and discoveries that are encountered on the way to the goal."

issue122 "We owe almost all our knowledge not to people who have agreed, but to people who have disagreed."

issue170 "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."

issue183 "As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious."

issue194 "The best preparation for life or a career is not learning to be competitive, but learning to be cooperative."

issue195 "The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus."

(see downstairs for the sample essay)

xiaoheUID: 162707

The quotation is certainly correct, insofar as it describes at least an element of wisdom.  In other words, I do agree with the proposition, subject to the proviso that the achievement of wisdom may well also involve other traits or attributes.

Having qualified my answer somewhat, I must endorse the principles put forth in the quotation. Overlooking -- or, perhaps, forgetting -- is a crucial skill one needs to master in order to navigate the often-treacherous paths of life without undue torment.  From my own experience, and from observations of friends, family members and business associates, I am well aware of the pitfalls which await those who fail to overlook the petty, the unnecessary and the irrelevant.

In modern America, as it happens, the importance of overlooking is probably greater than ever before.  Even a person trying to lead a quiet, simple life encounters an endless stream of annoyances, errors and petty demands such as paperwork, filing numbers and taxes; long lines at the bank; exponentially aggravating traffic jams and sullen, uncooperative coworkers and neighbors.  Those of us who cannot overlook such annoyances will invariably succumb to self-defeating dismay.

The ability to overlook also reflects a healthy sense of proportion and priorities.  The wise "overlooker" will ignore his or her spouse's failings after making a considered judgment that these are outweighed, in the long run, by greater and more significant strengths.  for example, what wise or reasonable person would destroy a marriage solely because an otherwise faithful, kind, generous, intelligent and prosperous partner occasionally tosses socks on the floor?

An elderly aunt of mine makes a striking example.  Long widowed, she now spends her days sitting in her apartment, carping endlessly about the many relatives who have slighted her.  Nobody calls enough.  Nobody pays her any atention.  Nobody cares, she says.

And, indeed, why should they?  Who wants to visit with someone, elderly or otherwise, who does nothing but complain, find fault and scour for slights?  Were she wiser, perhaps she would ignore or even suppress her interminable grievances and take more interest in the world at large, including the very individuals whose attention she purportedly craves.

The paradigm of overlooking applies with equal force in the worlds of business and politics.  Look at Richard Nixon:  a brilliant, often original thinker, he was nonetheless continually obsessed with minutiae and the unimportant.  On some level, I'm sure, he himself realized the dramatic impact of such a glaring character flaw; when the situation was long past salvaging, he exhorted his staff and friends to "Never be petty," a dictum he honored far more in the breach than in the observance.

More prosaically, in business and everyday life, it is indeed the wise person who overlooks or ignores a vast amount.  Why come home every day nurturing a grudge?  Why spend time grappling with activities, people or attitudes which bring nothing but pain and torment?  Still, most of us do, at least somewhat, and find ourselves far diminished for it.

In sum, I think it's safe to say that much in this world merits not even a cursory examination, and those among us are wiser and happier who can successfully budget their time and energy in order to avoid negativity.

乒乓球爱上九月UID: 162925

不知道。
6分范文不代表没有问题，不是还有没有写完的6分范文么。

not……but……可能也是分情况的，如果前后两者有必然的联系（比如是一个问题的两个方面，或者矛盾）都讨论可能会比较好，象pp3的这个似乎就比较％￥＃，哎，不太好说，讨论一下吧。