issue 30
Technology is the knowledge about scienceor industrial methods. For thousands of years, people have been using technologyto survive in the perilous nature, to increase the productivity and to improve the lives这挺抽象的,跟前两个比起来。建议删了.As the technology advances, the efficiency of people 不太对俄,做事的效率增加了吧。。increases. As the efficiency increases, 立即重复一次。。不好,尽量避免行文中的词句重复 people may have more time to enjoy themselves.However, the fact is people who live in rural area are more leisure than those who live in city, and people in modern days is busier than people in ancientdays. This seems strange. But if we look into it,we will find that it is reasonable.
One of the most important impetus to technological advancement is competition.With new technologies, we can do thesame thing faster, better and with lower cost,and probably we can do the thingsthat can’t be done without them. If a corporation develops a new technology, theproducts of the corporation will be more competitive and more money can beearned. Every corporation is developing new technology for higher profit and thecorporations without new technology will be hard to survive. 前面的意思很好哇~The developmentwill never be terminated, because the pursuit of wealth will never end. Anextreme example of competition is war.or the threatening of war. The troopsequipped with advanced weapons tend to win. New technologies have to bedeveloped to win the war. In fact, many great creations are first developed formilitary purposes. Rockets, jet aircraft and use of nuclear power are theexamples of this. 我就不懂你这句是要表达什么意思了,和中心的efficiency似乎没什么联系?
If competition exists, the development of technologies will never end.
Many technological advancement willincrease the efficiency. If the efficiency has increased, will people have moretime? Probably not. Because most technologies are created for winning acompetition. To win a competition, the boss will reduce the cost as much aspossible. If a person’s work can be replaced by machine and the cost is lower,the boss will hire less person to do the same job, rather than hire the samenumber of people and let them have more leisure time. In power plant whereautomation system are widely used, we can hardly see anypeople that is operating the machines. Though operation of machine is simplified,the maintaining and developing the automation system are much more complicated.Very few people will do the operation and more people will do the jobdevelopment and maintenance. Only the people that have expertise and mastersome technology will be hired. So people have to learn more knowledge thanbefore. The knowledge will be more and more difficult to learn. Even if thepeople have more leisure time after new technologies are adapted, they willhave to use the time to study这里最好补充个原因. Not only the engineers and the developers, butalso teachers, doctors, lawyers, even bosses and leaders of a country will haveto study. Because the development of technology will affect every aspect of asociety. 大赞,由浅入深的讨论competition,从公司间到这段的公司内部,内容上也很衔接~美中不足语言的运用能力稍差啦,还有最后一句太过宽泛,细致点会更好~
As the advancement of technology, crisisemerged. Some of the crisis are so perilous重复用词诶 that they threaten the survival ofhuman race. Green house effect, for example, is one of these crisis. Somescientists predict that even if we close all the power plants and stop theemission of carbon dioxide today, the average temperature of the earth willincrease 4°C in 50 years. More than 75% of the land will becovered with water and 90% of the creature will become extinct. Instead ofmaking people leisurely, these byproducts of advancement of technology make usanxious. There are many other crisis like this, for example, energy crisis,abuse of antibiotics, etc. Maybe there are some crisis that are still unknown. Wewill not give up the way we lead. We can’t imagine life without electricity. Probablysomeday, we will have to spend all our leisure time to develop new technologyto overcome these crisis, the byproduct of technology. 这个应该是你们小组讨论的东西?我猜的,只是觉得和前面的内容衔接性没有了。其实我的理解应该还是可以顺着competition的意思说这个environment的。改改可能会好些?
We used to hope the development oftechnology will make us leisure. But the truth is this is a mission impossible 笑~.Technology increases the efficiency of people, but at the same time, it bringsmany problems that keep people busy. Solving This problem, other ways must befound. 这个总结没能总结出前两段的东西。我觉得前两段内容好于最后分段,当然因为连续性的问题。内容上的讨论已经比较深入了,就是行文上~呵呵,多积累~~~加油~~~ |