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When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers.
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Does the historians equal storytellers in the study of history? From my part, the vacancy linking the fragments in history demands historian to create some plots so that they are storytellers with the premise that they respect the fact in history.
我的观点是第二句,加了个from my part;我用insofar as 是想说在尊重历史的前提下,历史学家是讲故事的人,能用insofar as吗?我一直以为insofar as是在什么的范围内
On the one hand, from the part of history evidence, since much evidence about a period in history always suffer rot and weathering, the insufficient evidences remain vacancies in history. Today, what we are able to gain are mostly limited in fossils, jewelry and documents and so forth. Thus, comparing to the long history, these information seems like irrelative fragments, among which there exist much vacancies. But, in fact, they are inherent internally. These fragments are like pearls and wait for historian to string them together by their creativity. Consider the extinction of Dinosaur. There do exist many fossils to justify the existence of such huge beings in our earth ever. Nonetheless, we have no evidence to explain why Dinosaur extinct after the boom of Jurassic just as they disappeared overnight. In the absence of sufficient evidence to demonstrate the history, it is mysterious and needs the creativity of historians to glue the boom of Dinosaur to the initial of next period harmoniously.
最后一句是想说:缺少足够的证据来解释这段历史,它显得神秘,而且需要历史学家的创造力去把恐龙的繁荣期和下一个时期的最初时期和谐地“粘”起来*^^*
On the other hand, a good historian is not a recorder. He or she should be creative enough to explain and judge some history issues.
First, as human beings, their curiosity and activity to unveil the truth in history prompt them to create appropriate assumption on unknown period. Referring to the recorded history and existing evidence, a good historian is able to establish the causal relationship between two historic fragments. Similarly consider the issue of Dinosaur once more. Two major explanations are put forward to demonstrate its extinction. Some depend on the information about the activity of volcano to allege that the eruption of volcano cause the exaction of Dinosaur while others ascribe the extinction to a clash between an unknown planet and earth referring to the initial forming process of earth. According to the known information, these two explanations are both reasonable. It is historian's creativity that informs us the possible reason about the death of Dinosaur. Thus, no matter which assumption is the truth, they both fill the vacancy in history reasonably.
Second, some recorded historic individuals are controversial so that the study of history is inevitably a subjective course. Actually, historians are different in many aspects, such as nationality, culture background, knowledge structure, religion. Thus historians depict multi-dimension of historic individual and issue with their creativity. A case in point is within the study of American history. The judgment of president, Ronald Reagan, is between two completely opposite views. Some regards him as Hero since the arms race which he advocated eventually results in the disaggregation of Soviet Union and end up the cold war. It guaranteed the United States became the super nation later. On the contrary, others criticized Reagan on his economical policy because it caused the great deficit ultimately. Basing on the different view points, the historians incline to link different historical issues to establish the causal relationship when they interpret a period of history. If the study of history is just the record of objective facts, how will the history become? It is through the analysis and creativity of certain individual and period that the history is substantiated and flourished.
可能我对于历史研究本身与pooh姐姐的理解不同。因为经常看到某某历史学家对于某历史人物的评价。根据历史,每个人的着眼点不同,这就会产生对于个人的褒贬和作用的评价不同。那他描述一段历史时就倾向于把一些事物的因果关系连起来讲,而淡化另一些关系。我在里面又加了一句,不知这样能否有力解释我的想法
Albeit the history needs creativity, the primary and fundamental principle of the study of history is to respect the fact. Any action such as make unfounded assumption or distort the history will betray the initial principle. Even when history serves for entertainment and art, a good “story” is not replete with making-up unwarranted details but developed on the basis of history. When historians ignore the reality in history and season it with their exaggeration and falsehood, he will become only a storyteller but eligibility eligible historian.
我同意历史学家是讲故事的人,但不同意讲故事的人都是历史学家。是不是又想naiba评我的文时,觉得有点绕?我的意思是说,如果他不尊重历史乱create的话,那他只是一个讲故事的人,而不是一个合格的历史学家。要尊重历史的create
To sum up, like other realms, the study of history needs historian’s wisdom and talent to develop on the basis of fact. To interpreter a history is not just to record the existed evidence. What’s more, to make reasonable analyses and assumptions is also essential. This is where the creativity lies in.
to pooh, 谢谢帮我的指正,很多单复数和词性真的麻烦你了。昨天写的时候就开始困了。所以就把word里的红扛扛去掉,就贴了。感觉有点不负责任。。。当时就想算是昨天的作业,对自己也算一个交代。有些你的问题,我就在修改时一起回答了
to fengboanlan. Consider.....应该是个固定句式,用来举例子的。功能类同于for example.你的一些意见挺好的。
我明天帮你改文吧,可以吗?我的脑袋又要吃不消了:(。
btw,一定要相信自己。没有写得差的,只有写得不认真的:) |
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