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本帖最后由 mqi07 于 2009-6-3 05:36 编辑
感谢xwlove不辞劳苦,还帮忙抓了那么多虫子~~
这是参考xwlove建议后 初步修改的(主要是语法硬伤,思维方面还在纠结中)
It is true that nowadays we are facing the phenomenon that lesser-known languages are going through the process of fewer people speaking them, which have brought about a lot of negative effects to the human development. However, we cannot deny the fact that the stubborn existence and even the unrestrained enlargement of those lesser-knowm languages can inevitably hamper the social advance as well. As a result, how to treat this phenomenon resonably should be a major concern to the public. As for me, I agree that those governments of the countries should make proper measures to protect those languages' from extinction, but the governments should not make speaking lesser-known languages popular or let it out of control .
Language is used as a means to communicate the ideas and feelings with each other, palying a fairly significant role in the social advance and the human development. To some extent, lanuages can be classified into two types : the langages used for the majority and that used for the minority— the lesser-konwn languages. Even though the latter are relatively narrower than the former, the lesser-known languages still have the same function as the original concept--language. But, the lesser-konwn languages seems to be becoming much more scarcer since a decreasing number of people are speaking them as the time goes by. With the progress of times, especially from the Age of Steam, the Electric Times to the Age of the Internet and the Digital Age, factors such as technological progress, communication development, cultural exchange and globalization all lead to that decrease. Firstly, due to tech and science development and communication advance, (the indigenous self-sufficiency and close policy in the past have been changed with 。。)in place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. Secondly, with the realization of free trade and the establishment of the world market as well as the assimilation of the industrial production and its corresponding living conditions, , ethnic segregation and confrontation among different peoples have been disappearing, and this is what we call globalization.
Thus, we can easily figure out that if the lesser-known languages' extinction take place, human beings all over the world would have to be faced with some problems. Take the culture for example, the cultural heritage was always recorded or carreied by the old language, which was the lesser-known languages, for in the ancient time peoples from different countries did not have ccommom language. Ancient Maya language--Proto Mayan, thought to have been spoken at 5,000 years ago, had been extinct ,which makes it difficult for archeaologists to discover the Maya Civilization heritage recorded in Proto Mayan. Similarly, in mordern society, if a lesser-known
language is dying out, for the contemporary people, they lose the chance to understand that a specific cultural; for the descendents, they would have to face another mistery. Thus, the governments are responsibe to protect the lesser-known languages from extinction to avoid a civilization's disappering from the world.
However, obviously, there are some disadvantages of such languages. After all, they are used by the minority of people, which make such languages bound to restrict commnicaton between different peoples and impede the progress of the global society. Such as in daily life, in the business negotiation, in the international conference, it's better to use common language or official language to make things go well and even to achieve the goal. Consequently, in these cases, the governments should take steps to control the using of the lesser-known languages in a proper range.
In sum, language ,as one of the most effective motives to the society advance and human development, its merits are indelible. However, we cannot overlook the weeknesses of the lesser-known languages, which always inlcine to restrain people's thought and action. Consequently, the governments of the lesser-known languages should seek a banlance between protecing and limiting such language instead of go to either extremes without sufficient consideration.
第二段中(1) 那个写错的totel--->total 但我想表达的是 小语种 (作为语言的一类),和原来的概念----语言---有一样的作用,所以最后决定采用original.
(2)xwlove 划出了 meanwhile,我觉得很有道理,因为我当时写的时候也没有去揣摩应该用哪个词。现在梳理一下,此处为转折,ok,就用but了。
(3)质疑的contingeninces----->contingencies 即为contingency,表可能性 突发状况。 此处意为造成小语种消失的原因,用factors
第三段中 关于for那个 原来还真就知道,但写的时候就忽略了,感谢xwlove童鞋 不仅指出此点,更举出了例子。 |
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