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一天就要考试了!:L最后的作品,大家看看,评个分吧!谢谢!:handshake:)
208. The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people.(:L!最大的失误就是写的太多了!考场上怎么打的完呀?:L)
The speaker asserts that people’s appearance and act can reveal their values and interests, and we may deduce a society’s values and ideas by examining their look, dress, and behavior. Admittedly, there are some merits in this assertion, but it is too absolute and overly simple on the whole. So far as I know, a society’s ideas and values are so complex, observing the appearance and act of a limited group of people is not enough to prove the society’s values and views.
First and foremost, from people's outlooks and actions, probability is so rare for us to judge correctly their attitudes and interests. For one thing, People's attitudes and interests are very elusive than its tangible appearances and actions. Persistence, respect of others, honesty, probity and the like cannot be reflected by the outlooks and actions. They are accumulated since one's nativity through education and interactions with people. Besides, people may even deliberately disguise their true selves by their affected behavior, and thus render us unable to see into their within. For another, attitudes and interests of people are tending to change from time to time by stress outside. Draw a figure of speech, ideas and values of a society are mostly the residues of its long tradition, say, mercurial; while people's look and act are only transitory outside impressions, constantly shifting, uncertain. For instance, sometimes in a company, one has to sacrifice his or her personal ideas to be subservient to his or her boss, because the lower ranked must obey the higher ranked. Many other disturbed factors such as mass media, governmental education may also distract people to behave not according to their true values.
Next, but perhaps more important, society's ideas and values are far more inapprehensible than individuals' appearance and interests. Take the dressing and behavior for example, as a result of economical globalization, even if different people in different continents may happen to give a same impression under our observation: dressed in a uniform style of business suit, eat the same taste of Western-style food, etc. That is to say, the French may dress colorfully, while the Americans conversely dress romantically; A Japanese may like to eat pizza, while an Italian loves Kraut best. This case commendably illustrate we cannot clearly ornd thoroughly see a society's ideas and values only from the exterior act and outlooks of its people. Besides, the value system of a modern society in fact has a variegated or pluralistic nature. Only from limited people's views and thoughts, it is hard for us common people to understand the society's real customs and values. In addition, many factors can reflect a society's ideas and values such as educational system, regime, conventional opinions and traditional culture, etc. So to speak, the society's ideology and value are so complex a mingle of individual's views that even if people behave in accordance with their minds, observing the appearance of a limited group of people is not enough to image them.
Admittedly, it is true and commonsense that in certain aspects we did understand a society by its social members' outlooks and actions. For example, a society whose members are pleased in welcoming guests may appear passionate and generous. And a society whose members persist in conservatism might look ponderous and closefisted. Accordingly, we indeed can excogitate a society's mores and values from the outlooks and actions of its people, but this kind of way does not always function pristinely, so we cannot classify all kinds of people by their outlooks and actions.
In conclusion, while to some extent the statement has merits, I would rather modify the speaker's claim into a more fair or objective way, people's attitudes and habits can reflect a colorful corner of their society, yet, this is not a whole sense .(647)
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Mencius said,"When heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.It exposes his body to hunger………….By all these methods, it stimulates his mind, consolidates his character, and increases his efficiency".
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