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本帖最后由 weenbopper 于 2009-7-2 22:50 编辑
根据楼上修改意见,重新整理了.....
Issue119. "When research priorities are being set for science, education, or any other area, the most important question to consider is: How many people's lives will be improved if the results are successful?"
Research, by cultivating our logical thinking and originality, by erecting a brand-new theory or by designing a wholesome technology, undoubtedly improves our lives; however, it also brings about considerable problems. In this sense I can hardly agree with this hasty and superficial statement that the amount of benefited people is the most crucial consideration for research, and my reasons are detailed as follow.
Admittedly, I have to concede that research make progress in our lives in a pace beyond anyone's imagination. Hardly can we imagine the daily commute without automobile, distant communication without mobile phone and modern offices without multifarious electronic equipments. Also, both the gene engineering(这里想说的是基因工程,一下拼错了) and Internet, which boasting its significant role in prolonging longevity and providing information respectively, is widely acknowledged as the most achievements in the last century. And these researches are just the tip of an iceberg. Moreover, research per se is a process to polish our social skills, such as logical analysis, critical thinking and creative problem-solving
Notwithstanding the foregoing benefits, the achievements of research often pose certain problems of its own that must be poured enough attention ever since its accomplishment. The statement brings immediately to mind the ever growing and increasingly serious environmental pollution. The gas discarded by our high-tech cars, the sewage discharged by the factories and the dust made by the manufacturer drag(drag,我觉得用一般现在时比较好) us so far away from our previous clean and natural earth. If human continue this downward spiral it may be only a matter of time before our wonderful world turns into nightmare. Lending even more credence to the statement is the tricky gene engineering, which effectively expands our lifespan, at the same time, unfortunately brings about numerous inevitable ethnic problems. Adding credibility to the above statement is the notorious Internet-based crimes, although make possible the readily available accessibility of information(倒装很好), it also increases the possibility of information leakage. Therefore, after accomplishing a research, we should consider on how to eliminate, or at least minimize, its side-effect.
Subsequently, never does a direct causal relationship exist between the number of benefited people and the greatness and attainments of the related research. An effective medication or cure for cancer, for instance, although only can help even less than 1% people in the world, would still be one of the greatest invention and breakthrough in human history, not only for going through this sinuous trip of research and its peerless position in medicine, but also for fulfilling the most fundamental obligation of research--to explore the unknown.
In addition, this number from the research or its technologies is too abstract and comprehensive to be exactly summarized through any methods. Hypothetically, take exact data of how many people will be facilitated as the most important standard, and limited resource calls for choice among supporting program in automobile, Internet and nuclear power plant. Since the considerable convenience some people would suggest automobile, some might maintain Internet’ importance for its mountainful(没查到这个单词) (在红宝书中背的有多山的,和巨大的意思)capacity of information; still, some others would insist on nuclear power’s superiority over the others because of its brilliant future. Obviously, never can we obtain substantial figures even after their invention, not to mention in their incubating period, in which only supposed plans or expected projects are available.
In a nutshell, once considering researches, except for this prerequisite figure mentioned in the statement, their potential threaten(可数嘛), significance on research per se and human history, fulfillment on exploring the unknown, and numerous(去掉some) other aspects should be comprehensively taken into account.
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P.S.:回楼上话
有些例子是我以前写T的时候总结的,现在又拿来在用
还有一些连接词语和句子主要是看的北美范文中的
见笑了,嘿嘿!! |
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