issue185［Spring-第５次作业］

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　　Issue 185:Scandals—whether in politics, academia, or other areas—can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could."
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      With the development of information, scandals in modern world are becoming so hard to be hidden from the media and the public view whether in politics, academia, or other areas. Here comes the question that whether or not the scandals are useful. Generally I agree with the speaker that scandals can sometimes expose problems that the community and the society should pay attention to, and they focus people’s attention in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. However, too much attention paid to scandals may risk influencing the society in negative ways.
　　It is true that scandals, in many cases, can serve to reveal problems and attract people’s attention that we would otherwise neglect. In these years, more and more scandals in sports, football games for example, have been reported, calling the public attention to such things as the umpires whistling unfairly for a foul on purpose, the players losing games for money and so on，which destroyed the spirits of sports seriously. But in retrospect, the exposure of those scandals improved the legal system of fairness and alerted the public figures to care for their own behaviors, thereby working a significant and lasting benefit to our society. Not only in the area of sports but also in the political and academic areas that there are scandals. As far as we know, the paradigmatic modern examples in the area of politics may be the Watergate scandal and the Clinton sex scandal. It has been proved that these scandals did improve the level of scrutiny and the efficiency of the legal system to some extent. Surely, no speaker or reformers could have ever exposed these facts as scandals did for the reason that they have to take care of their public reputations and legal responsibilities. Without scandals, these could probably been hidden forever and keep harmful to the society as hidden rules.
     While scandals serve us to call our attention to certain issues in different areas, sometimes they also make us confused and overemphasize their fault, treating their contribution unfairly. Scandals could do harm to privy C seriously. Whether a person makes more mistakes than contribution to the community or the society depends on a case-by-case basis. We cannot deny a person just according to the scandal about him. So we should establish the facts relating to them, instead of believing blindly in the reports about these scandals, before making any judgment.
　　Moreover, too much attention paid to scandals may risk distracting us from the mainstream events and the more pressing societal problems. One apt illustration of this point involves the French political scandal which led to the societal turbulence for 12 years. French people suffered a bloodless civil war from the event that the chief captain judged another Judaic Captain Alfred high treason arbitrarily in 1894. Every new development during that political scandal became front-page news in all of the Paris Newspapers. But did this scandal serve any useful purpose? No.    In contrast, the scandal distracted the French people from far more important issues, such as economic depression and political disorder. And people in France suffered really a lot in those years.
　　In addition, some people may make use of scandals to buck for benefit from them. Driven by the profit, some owners and managers of media will try their best to seek every facet of the scandal or even make up some stories, for the purpose of attracting the widest viewing audience. Also vending scandals can bring enormous benefit, which appeals to some wildcatters to do business in them, thus vicious circle is made.
     In the final analysis, scandals do expose some problems that we may otherwise neglect and alert the public figures to improve their behaviors. However, when faced with scandals, we should take care of them reasonably because scandals could sometimes work harm to society as well.

　　居然在图书馆借到一本名为＜丑闻＞的书，里面例子很多，不过还是没能用好，汗～
　　比较担心自己到时候能在４５分钟内成文吗？望战友给点建议吧，谢谢～～



[ 本帖最后由 gloriaguo1986 于 2007-11-24 19:03 编辑 ]

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With the development of information, scandals in modern world are becoming so hard to be hidden from the media and the public view whether in politics, academia, or other areas. Here comes the question that whether or not the scandals are useful. Generally I agree with the speaker that scandals can sometimes expose problems that the community and the society should pay attention to, and they focus people’s attention in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. However, too much attention paid to scandals may risk influencing the society in negative ways.首段论点明确，表达流畅。
　　It is true that scandals, in many cases, can serve to reveal problems and attract people’s attention that we would otherwise neglect. In these years, more and more scandals in sports, football games for example, have been reported, calling the public attention to such things as the umpires whistling unfairly for a foul on purpose, the players losing games for money and so on，which destroyed the spirits of sports seriously. But in retrospect, the exposure of those scandals improved the legal system of fairness and alerted the public figures to care for their own behaviors, thereby working a significant and lasting benefit to our society. Not only in the area of sports but also in the political and academic areas that there are scandals. As far as we know, the paradigmatic modern examples in the area of politics may be the Watergate scandal and the Clinton sex scandal. It has been proved that these scandals did improve the level of scrutiny and the efficiency of the legal system to some extent. Surely, no speaker or reformers could have ever exposed these facts as scandals did for the reason that they have to take care of their public reputations and legal responsibilities. Without scandals, these could probably been hidden forever and keep harmful to the society as hidden rules. 这一段相对有点长，如果觉得写不完，可以只用一个具体的例子说明也够了。而且还整段显得比较紧凑。
     While scandals serve us to call our attention to certain issues in different areas, sometimes they also make us confused and overemphasize their fault, treating their contribution unfairly. Scandals could do harm to privy C 什么意思？？？seriously. Whether a person makes more mistakes than contribution to the community or the society depends on a case-by-case basis. We cannot deny a person just according to the scandal about him. So we should establish the facts relating to them, instead of believing blindly in the reports about these scandals, before making any judgment.
　　Moreover, too much attention paid to scandals may risk distracting us from the mainstream events and the more pressing societal problems. One apt illustration of this point involves the French political scandal which led to the societal turbulence for 12 years. French people suffered a bloodless civil war from the event that the chief captain judged another Judaic Captain Alfred high treason arbitrarily in 1894. Every new development during that political scandal became front-page news in all of the Paris Newspapers. But did this scandal serve any useful purpose? No.    In contrast, the scandal distracted the French people from far more important issues, such as economic depression and political disorder. And people in France suffered really a lot in those years.句式很生动，有亮点。
　　In addition, some people may make use of scandals to buck for benefit from them. Driven by the profit, some owners and managers of media will try their best to seek every facet of the scandal or even make up some stories, for the purpose of attracting the widest viewing audience. Also vending scandals can bring enormous benefit, which appeals to some wildcatters to do business in them, thus vicious circle is made.后三段写的是同一方面，时间来不及in addition就可以不写。
     In the final analysis, scandals do expose some problems that we may otherwise neglect and alert the public figures to improve their behaviors. However, when faced with scandals, we should take care of them reasonably because scandals could sometimes work harm to society as well.

你现在练习写的字数比较多，到时候不用写这么多，再赶的紧点应该能来及。

楼主的这段作文分析的层次比较深，难怪你有有例子却难以表达的感觉。我也有同感。我是这样想的：就中文作文来说，一个题目可以分析的深刻，表达的辗转晦涩，让人忍不住要多体会其中的意思，好文章确实要这样写才到位。但是同样的题目也可以不分析那么深刻，只要表达明确，句子流畅，没有100分也可以有85分。对于我们非英语母语的人，写issue能到第二种境界，我想也可以有5分吧。而且45分钟之内，就是个美国人又能分析多深刻呢。

这篇题目我的看法说丑闻影响不好比较难写，而举两个体育或政治方面的例子说明有好处，再举个反例就比较好写。

另，我六级改错做的相当差，语法句式就不乱涂鸦了。

总的来说写的很好，有高分的基础，写之前先列提纲会有帮助。 加油！