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Issue176. "The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each."
科学的作用是解惑；艺术的目的是创新。只有这样他们才各得其所。
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Are the function and purpose of science and art only to reassure and upset? Are there values so distinctly different from each other as the speaker stated? In my opinion, however, the function of science is not always to reassure, and the purpose of art goes far beyond upsetting.

Admittedly, science plays a crucial role in that it aims to seek the internal orders of things and reveal the laws of nature, which reassure people and diminish our anxieties in front of the unknowable things and mysterious phenomena in nature. In the ancient age, our ancestors were always puzzled and frightened by lightning, rain, snow and even wind, which seemed terrible and stronger than people. It was science that told people how and where these enchanting phenomena generated and derived from, and meanwhile, enlightened them to search for the potential orders and to utilize the strength of nature in various methods rather than crouching behind of them. In this era of the increasing development, we are usually confused by our world, which is becoming more complicated and intricate, even more dangerous. Several years ago, a piece of news that "Comet is coming" drove millions of people into a scare that the earth would be crashed just in few days. Fortunately, modern astronomy appeased the whole world by precise calculating data and the forecast that there were no possibilities for that collision.

On the other hand, the discovery of science are not always make people comfort, instead, sometimes science would find the back side of prosperities of our lives; the unexpected truth could make us upset and anxious. For example, fast food, maybe the best choice for office workers to save time, recently was proved by the modern medicine to be harmful to people's health for the reason that there are too much fat and carbohydrate. Besides, the recent scientific research indicated that the more and more deterioration of greenhouse effect would bring out a tragedy for human beings, which terrified us with a heavy alarm.

As the sister of science, one of the most important roles of art is to upset people through questioning our own lives, societies and the world around us with a critical insight. Differing from science, art is more inclined to discover the inside world and represent the inner feelings of peoples. There are lots of works tending to question the truth and make us confused. "Rola, run, run", a new Germany movie, is a good example. At the beginning of the film, a deep and low voice asked "who we are, where are we from, where are we going, why are we here...etc", so depressive for every audience, because these essential questions were always entangling our minds and inner world. In this sense, we were struck at all. This illustrates the point that it is art like this that touches the deepest of our hearts and upset us to think over our world and ourselves.

However, as well as science, art not only upset us, but also reassure us through the peaceful sound in songs, the beautiful colors in paintings and the affective stories in literature, which are all acting as meaningful roles in our lives. Consider, without graceful music accompanying to us, how boring will the driving in a narrow car be; without impressive poems, how could we find the reason of happiness and courage in front of difficulties. Recently, a scientific investigation even showed that babies would grow up better with the music of Mozart around them. Art does benefit us a lot in our enjoyment.

In conclusion, both science and art have duel function and purpose on human beings. Science does reassure us while making us anxious with finding the truth; art aims to upset us by questioning our lives, at one time, it also content us with lots of enjoyment.

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提前声明，以免被K。。。。偶是菜鸟。抱歉，不会用那种在原文中加上颜色或者符号的方式修改文章。只能用这样最白痴的方式了。。。

第一段:
Are there values so distinctly different ......there是their的笔误吗？
Are the function and purpose of science and art only to reassure and upset? 加个respectively会好点吗？自己感觉这句有点怪怪的。

第二段：
In this era of(with) the increasing development, we are usually confused by our world, which is becoming more (and more) complicated and intricate, even more dangerous.

Fortunately, modern astronomy appeased the whole world by precise calculating data and the forecast(and forecasted) that there were no possibilities for that collision( there was no possibility of the collision).

第三段：
the discovery of science are not 。。。。。the discoveries of science are not
office workers.....office employee  worker总感觉实在车间工地上的people

第四段：
upset us to think over our world and ourselves.   upsets

第五段：
art not only upset（s) us, but also reassure(s)

最后一段：
it also content(s) us with lots of enjoyment.

感觉题目的中文释义有问题。reassure=解惑， upset=创新，好像不对吧。。。按照楼主的文章来看。

文章把science and art都从两个方面剖析，两者兼具reassure and upset的作用。感觉art证明其有reassure的作用时，可以选择更直接的例子。reassure就是让人安心的意思吧，在车里听歌，能说明art可以让人觉得comfortable,这个和reassure有点差别。。。。比如摇篮曲，孩子听了安心睡觉。如此类得例子，也许某副画可以让人看了平静心情。或者某个小说等。

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嘿！ ;)  DarrenYang 兄，十分感谢你的深夜修改，呵呵，俺明天改了地基的语法错误在重贴上来，对了，关于reassure和upset，我没有按着题目原来的翻译，太窄了！ ;)
我给个连接，你看看，挺好的！希望对你和大伙查关键词有用，你可以在下拉菜单里选择范围，比如基本意思，扩展含义。。。

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/ ... 1&word=reassure

DarrenYangUID: 191179

十分感谢。
我就是没有理解原题中那两个词的中文翻译，怎么变成了解惑和创新了，看看MW先，呵呵。

BTW：怎么加表情符号啊？偶也不会，超级郁闷ING：（

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请教：
题目中reassure和upset的意思如何理解呢？如果说reassure是表示使人们解除疑虑，那么upset就应该是使人们产生疑虑的作用，这两点对于science都还比较好写，可对于art应该怎么说呢？
欢迎讨论！

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我就觉的是安心和不安心的问题。

science让人know something, 一个事物一旦了解，心就塌实了。

而art是让人不断思考，推翻。（这里顺着作者的思路）。可是这样一说，art不就成了哲学了吗？楼主举的那个电影例子中的问题，也都是些哲学问题。。。。。科学的科学啊。

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;) 回 LSD 和DarrenYang：
关于艺术，有很多可以说啊，音乐有punk,industrial noise等等，美术有达利，更多的是架下绘画：即行为艺术，装置艺术。。。电影里除了“罗拉快跑”，还有无数阿，比如宫崎俊的“千与千寻”，陆川的新电影“可可西里”这些艺术形式不同，但有共同点就是awake and question.....alarm and warn......in a sense.....a kind of upset for people.

可以看看我的这段，虽然写得不好：
There are lots of works tending to question the truth and make us confused. "Rola, run, run", a new Germany movie, is a good example. At the beginning of the film, a deep and low voice asked "who we are, where are we from, where are we going, why are we here...etc", so depressive for every audience, because these essential questions were always entangling our minds and inner world.

DarrenYangUID: 191179

我就是觉得艺术在反映人的思想，这个是主观的客观表达。
而科学实在反映人的认识，这个是客观的主观体现。