Issue36--当你不能确定自己的表达是否正确的时候，试试这个办法

zephyrqqUID: 2260290

写作文的时候经常苦于不知道自己的表达是否清楚恰当，今天才想到一个办法，把自己写的那个片语复制到google里面去搜索一下，看看老外有没有这么用过，就ok了。如果发现有偏差则可以纠正自己的某些不好的表达，个人觉得很方便，大家不妨试一试。

前几天写了一篇i，今天又认真改了一下，希望大家帮忙看看给点意见：）

题目：ISSUE36 - "The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries."

Issue241几乎一模一样
An individual's greatness cannot be judged objecively by his or her contemporaties; the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time.

思路是
开头：给伟大的人下了一个定义：就是那些通过打破错误的常规或者建立有意义的新事物，对人类历史进程产生持久影响的人。
在这个定义的前提下，一个人是不是伟大，应该由后人说了算。
1.让步：承认有时候同代人也能够识别出伟人（孔子在当时就被尊称为圣人）
2.但是，杰出的思想和成就通常领先于时代，因而被当代人看作荒谬而不能被接受的。（伽利略，梵高的遭遇）
3.时间是最具有权威的法官，能够告诉我们什么是真正的伟大。就是说真正的伟大要能够持久并且经得起时间的考验，因此只有后人才能评判

Who can decide the greatness of individuals? Their contemporaries or those who live after them? before finding an answer to these questions, we are faced with a extremely difficult question: What it is to be greatness ? If  we define the word- greatness- as someone who has exert a lasting influence on the course of human history by breaking something long accepted but wrong or bringing about something new and meaningful, it is possible for us to safely conclude that posterity is more likely to make a wiser decision about the greatness of a person.

Admittedly, we concede that, indeed,  sometimes the greatness of individuals has been so conspicuous that it can be identified by their contemporaries. No one can deny the fact that some great men had been famous and thought highly by people even in their own life time. Take Confucius for example. Confucius, who is the creator of the famous Confucian which is regarded as one of the most important parts of the essence of traditional Chinese culture, was then admired by not only nobles but also commons who considered him as ''saint''.  Since it was established the idea of Confucian has influenced the thought and the behavior of all the Chinese people , and, up to now, has a lasting significance for more than tow thousand years. It illustrate the fact that the greatness of a person can be decide by his contemporaries sometimes.

This, however, is not always the case. There are sometimes when outstanding ideas and achievements of some individuals even seem to be unacceptable, even radical to their contemporaries , for they are often beyond the understanding of masses. History tell us that great minds always think in a way that is quite different from a common one, and, what is more, the ideas and thoughts that steam from the great minds are often ahead of their time and therefore can hardly escape from the destiny of being misunderstood. It seems as if great people were prophets, or human beings who live in a world beyond or in a different time, who saw what others could not see, who heard what others could not hear, who felt what others could not feel, and who understood what others could not understand. Just think of Galileo, crash, whose ideas cause his crash with the Inquisition, and the suffer of gifted painter Van Gogh, who had sold only one work before his death. Being outstanding- as the word itself imply-means that they may, in some way, not be the same with others around themselves, and therefore they may seems somewhat abnormal or even mad, and therefore can not be understood by their contemporaries, workmates, even their family, let alone be decided as greatness. In this circumstance, only those who live behind them can see clearly how much those "abnormal" people went ahead their normal contemporaries.

Fortunately, what is certain is that time is the most authoritative judger who can tell us what is true greatness. That is why William Hazlitt , an English writer, ever put it, "No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history." Consider the history of literary. As time pass by, some of those books, which ever were extraordinarily popular among their author's contemporaries, seems to be great, have faded and disappeared into oblivion, together with the names of their authors. However, only with astonishing power to stand the test of time can the authors of great books, which often seek the answers of eternal question of our human life, nature, or the university, survive. Their wonderful works, which are of the enduring momentousness, can enlighten thousands of people to explore the secrets of ourselves and the world around us, and because of this they are greatness themselves. In other areas, for example politics, music, business, and so forth, it is the same-those who has ever been thought as greatness for a quite short time are not real greatness. Such is the circumstances of history: only those who truly deserved can be remembered as greatness.

For all these reason, we can safely draw the conclusion that whether an individual is great or not can be decide only by their posterity, while those who live in his own time may make a mistake when they try to identify the greatness, as a result of the limitation of time. In a word, only time can determine who is really great the history of development of civilization.

[ 本帖最后由 zephyrqq 于 2008-2-9 12:14 编辑 ]

zephyrqqUID: 2260290

时代的局限 怎么用英语表达 希望大家给点提示

星夜无夏UID: 2333978

这个方法是对的。
顺便，wiki也可以。可以搜到一些general的对概念的描述。我就是这么做的当时

zephyrqqUID: 2260290

呵呵，看到无夏斑斑，心里确实很激动的说：）
没有人修改就自己来改一下吧

Who can decide the greatness of individuals, their contemporaries or those who live after them? Before finding an answer this queation, we are faced with a extremely difficult question: What it is to be greatness ? If  we define the word- greatness- as someone who has exerted a lasting influence on the course of human history by breaking something long accepted but wrong or bringing about something new and meaningful, it is possible for us to safely conclude that posterity is more likely to make a wiser decision about the greatness of a person.


lasting 的同义词 far-reaching

Admittedly, we concede that, indeed,  sometimes the greatness of individuals has been so conspicuous that it can be identified by their contemporaries. No one can deny the fact that some great men had been famous and thought highly by people even in their own life time. Take Confucius for example. Confucius, who is the creator of the famous Confucian which is regarded as one of the most important parts of the essence of traditional Chinese culture, was then admired by not only nobles but also commons who considered him as ''saint''.  Since it was established, the idea of Confucian has influenced the thought and the behavior of all the Chinese people , and, up to now, has a lasting significance for more than two thousand years. It illustrates the fact that the greatness of a person can be decide by his contemporaries sometimes.

This, however, is not always the case. There are sometimes when outstanding ideas and achievements of some individuals even seem to be unacceptable, even radical to their contemporaries , for they are often beyond the understanding of masses. History tells us that great minds always think in a way that is quite different from a common one, and, what is more, the ideas and thoughts that stemmed from the great minds are often ahead of their time and therefore can hardly escape from the destiny of being misunderstood. It seems as if great people were prophets, or human beings who live in a world beyond or in a different time, who saw what others could not see, who heard what others could not hear, who felt what others could not feel, and who understood what others could not understand. Just think of Galileo, whose ideas cause his crash with the Inquisition, and the gifted painter Van Gogh, who had sold only one of his worksbefore his death. Being outstanding- as the word itself imply-means that they may, in some way, not be the same with others around themselves, and therefore they may seems somewhat abnormal or even mad, and therefore cannot be understood by their contemporaries, workmates, even their family, let alone be decided as greatness. In this circumstance, only those who live behind them can see clearly how much those "abnormal" people went ahead their normal contemporaries.

Fortunately, what is certain is that time is the most authoritative judger who can tell us what is true greatness. That is why William Hazlitt , an English writer, ever put it, "No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history." Consider the history of literary. As time pass by, some of those books, which ever were extraordinarily popular among their author's contemporaries, seems to be great, have faded and disappeared into oblivion, together with the names of their authors. However, only with astonishing power to stand the test of time can great books, which often seek the answers of eternal question of our human life, nature, or the university, survive. The wonderful works, which are of the enduring momentousness, can enlighten thousands of people to explore the secrets of ourselves and the world around us.Consequently, the authors of these great books are greatness themselves. In other areas, for example politics, music, business, and so forth, it is the same: those who has ever been thought as greatness for a quite short time are not real greatness. Such is the circumstances of history: only those who truly deserved can be remembered as greatness.

For all these reasons, we can safely draw the conclusion that whether an individual is great or not can be decide only by their posterity, while those who live in his own time might make a mistake sometimes when they try to identify the greatness, as a result of the limitation of time. In a word, only time can determine who is really great the history of development of civilization.


[ 本帖最后由 zephyrqq 于 2008-2-26 14:41 编辑 ]

NataliePadmeUID: 2342044

LZ修改下字体吧，看着蛮累
也来试试这个方法，多谢～

vryUID: 2288609

唉，我老了，视力不行了~~~