Issue120 『desperado小组』第四次作业 by 铅华落尽

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提纲：
大反小正
1、在现代社会，以科技为代表的进步导致传统观念和过去人类积累的经验都面临挑战。知识更新很快，不与时俱进的东西有时就会过时（航天技术、IT发展）
2、但是过去对于人类也很重要，因为在有些领域，新事物不能解决所有事，新事物也未必真是时代的潮流，（道德、伦理），而这些事可以通过对历史的回顾进行鉴别和解决。
3、历史的重要指导作用不能忽视，一方面，历史帮助人类了解社会发展的规律；另一方面，历史中的大量教训提醒人们不要重蹈覆辙。而且本质上现代社会也是人类社会发展历史的一部分。

TOPIC: ISSUE120 - "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."
WORDS: 463          TIME: 01:14:15          DATE: 2007-12-11 21:00:37


The speaker claims that since so much is new and complex nowadays that looking back to the past is useless for living in the present. I partly agree with him as in some fields, especially technology, things are always changing so fast that we even do not necessarily have to review the out-of-date parts. However, we have to consider it more seriously about the guidance given by history, because we always stand on the achievement and knowledge the former forerunner created, and we need history to distinguish whether a new thing will profit the society where we live.
Admittedly, looking back for an understanding of the past seems like wasting time, especially in technology field which is advancing dramatically all the time. Take IT industrial for instance, computer science has been progressing so rapidly that what we learn today might be totally trashy. 20 years ago, people use DOC operating system in a 386 cumbersome computer, and now vista system in a double-core cute notebook. So, is there anyone today claiming that we should take DOC as our main operating system? No. Technology does challenge the traditional way what we were used to and the experience accumulated before, anything and anybody can only live in past and ignore the new and complex thing present front us.
However, looking back is of great important, because new and complex things like the most updated technology can not solve all the problems we encounter. When things come to moral and ethic, traditional way plays a significant role in our society, in respect that changes in moral and ethic are tardigrade and definitely need time to inspect whether they suit the demand of human being or just a episode in the wheel of history.
We should take history concerned not only because it is the fundamental of new things we get today and in the future, but also because it reveals the inside rules supporting human being's development and reminds us not to make the same mistake we had before. Otherwise, human being will suffer from wars and tragedies, and disastrously run into a chaos. History is the beacon light of today's life. And from another point of view, modern society is only a short phase of the long stream of human's history, and will be the history of our later generations, therefore, do not laugh at history neglecting what we are and what we will be.
To sum up, history is a best approach to fix the problems we come across nowadays as we can base knowledge we need now on the former achievement and benefit from avoiding the mistakes what people ago had made. And we recognise history does not mean that we are fogyish, so we have to discern what is out-of-date and needs progress.

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The speaker claims that since so much is new and complex nowadays （这个表述有点绕口不顺）that looking back to（into） the past is useless for living in the present. I partly agree with him as in some fields, especially technology, things are always changing so fast that we even do not necessarily have to review the out-of-date parts. However, we have to consider it more seriously about the guidance given by history, because we always stand on the achievement and knowledge the former forerunner（两词有点重复） created, and we need history to distinguish whether a new thing will profit the society where we live.

Admittedly, looking back for an understanding of the past seems like wasting time, especially in technology field which is advancing dramatically all the time. Take IT industrial for instance, computer science has been progressing so rapidly that what we learn today might be totally trashy（good~）. 20 years ago, people use DOC operating system in a 386 cumbersome computer, and now vista system in a double-core cute notebook. So, is there anyone today claiming that we should take DOC as our main operating system? No. Technology does challenge the traditional way what we were used to and the experience accumulated before, anything and anybody can only live in past and ignore the new and complex thing present front us.

However, looking back is of great important（importance）, because new and complex things like the most updated technology can not solve all the problems we encounter. When things come to moral and ethic, traditional way plays a significant role in our society, in respect that changes in moral and ethic are tardigrade and definitely need time to inspect whether they suit the demand of human being or just a episode in the wheel of history.

We should take history concerned not only because it is the fundamental of new things we get today and in the future, but also because it reveals the inside rules supporting human being's development and reminds us not to make the same mistake we had before. Otherwise, human being will suffer from wars and tragedies, and disastrously run into a chaos. History is the beacon light of today's life. And from another point of view, modern society is only a short phase of the long stream of human's history, and will be the history of our later generations, therefore, do not laugh at history neglecting what we are and what we will be.（这一段如果发展成内部层次肯定很好，不过还是有点单薄，在加点例子就好了，感觉结构思路分析都很好，就是没例子不够充实）

To sum up, history is a best approach to fix the problems we come across nowadays as we can base knowledge we need now on the former achievement and benefit from avoiding the mistakes what people ago had made. And we recognise history does not mean that we are fogyish, so we have to discern what is out-of-date and needs progress.

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