Issue48 ScorpionSky--Hamming组 冲刺历史篇,查了不少咚咚,有看法的来交流,必回~

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48. "The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."
历史研究过于关注个人。历史上最有意义的事件和潮流能够成为可能不是因为几个少数的名人而是一些身份早就被淡忘的人群。少数和多数，精英和大众

不同意
历史强调个人不代表历史淡忘了群众，因为这些历史人物被当作特定人群的代表，称颂sing the praise of或谴责condemn个人，某种意义上就是称颂和谴责他代表的一个时期的人群。并且，但凡有历史意义的事件和潮流，都需要这样的领袖，在当时是引领人们创造历史，在现在被作为代表来记录，作为特定人群的历史标签。

任何有意义的事件都不能缺少领袖。这是由人类自身的特点决定的，从小我们在伙伴中就会有人比较突出，作调皮的事情总有人带头。没有突出的个人，一个人群只是一个人群，不会有什么作为。举些例子：个人很突出的~ PALAPALA~
如果不是希特勒，德国人，可能只会歧视和仇恨犹太人，但是去搞屠杀的可能性微乎其微。. holocausts

人们称赞一个人，往往就是称赞他代表的人群，这个人是历史事件的标记，是人群的杰出代表。就像文章的标题，如果世界上所有文章都没有标题，所有书本都没有目录，信息的传递将严重受阻。同样的，如果只告诉你，PALAPALA~

当然，反过来，如果历史书本中文章只有标题或者只有目录，人们只有苦笑和想象了。如果只有这些领袖，他们身后没有支持他的人群，他就是他，最终被淹没在历史长河中的普通一员。PALAPALA~如果我们只告诉你灯泡是一个科学家发明的，美国的解放时一个杰出的人物领导的，美国的奴隶制度是一个白人带领大家打破的，然后黑人的权利是另一个人带领群众缺的的。我们的历史研究将如何继续？人们如何留下深刻的印象，如何追随前人的足迹。

所以，历史研究没有忘记人群，关注个人只是让历史更清晰，更容易被人们所认识和接受。其实历史人物本身就是群众的一员，他突出的代表了特定人群的特点和信仰，所以我们应该坚持历史研究的这种做法。

The speaker asserts that the study of history ignored to emphasis the function of groups of people, because it usually spares no effort on individuals. However, I disagree with this assertion, since the individuals—perhaps famous or perhaps notorious—are typically representations of the mass individuals. In some sense, either singing the praise of those persons or condemning on them is equal to praise of the masses who behind them at then. Moreover, we can not forgotten masses, who create the history, meanwhile, in history’s study, we need individuals functioned as significant events’ and trends’ labels.


No one can deny the fact that any significant events and trends could not happen without leaders. This is determined by humanity’s inherent features. Consider, when you were a child, just played with a small group of little boys or girls, there always needed a relative excellent individual became the leader of you. More often or not, leaders are emerged and functioned as soon as your group intends to make some troubles. If no body be the first and go more a step, the whole your guys would never serve the devil. Following the logic of this bit case, to employ your imagination, if the German lost Hitler, in the World War Two, they might be only discriminate against the Jews but could not to make the holocausts, which amazed every individual on our planet. These days, in study of history, we lay our blames and condemnations at Hitler rather than the German, in that we only need the key individual be a representation instead of all of his army.

Often, when historical books praise one individual, it is commend the mass who behind him or her. This person in study of history just like the symbol of certain historical events or is distinguished leader of certain group of individuals. As the title of article, if all articles on earth left their titles, or every single book missed its catalog, human beings’ transferability of information will be confused. Equally, if historical records only tell you that: so-and-so invented the daylight lamp, so-and-so leaded the American People to a freedom society, or so-and-so helped the black people gain the same rights as white. Could not you plunge in a confused situation?

On the contrary, if the historical books merely provided the titles or the catalogs, there should be only cry smiles on people’s faces. The same as the famous individual, if not the group which supported their leaders behind them, individual just is individual. For instance, lost their followers or forerunners, George Washington, Martin Luther King, even Hitler or Thomas Edison all these particular historical figures would simply be a common one and have been flooded away by the long river of history. The study of history just remained some data records: Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Civil Rights Movement (1950S-1960S) and so forth, all these records making the study boring.


In sum, study of history is not forget the groups of individuals, focus on individuals just lead the study easier, and clearer for acceptable by the public. The noted historical figures own are among the mass individuals. They especially represent the features and the beliefs of common people. Consequently, we ought to insist in the ways of history’s study, which adopted nowadays, firmly.