issue36 【kito】同主题5期

kito9695UID: 209685

TOPIC：ISSUE 36
Issue36 "The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries."
WORDS：690        DATE：2006-2-14

【提纲】二者结合，平衡
1、对greatness的评价可以说是个主观的过程，不同的人处于不同的历史和社会环境、拥有不同的知识背景，都会有不同的评价。
2、一个人的伟大之处，可能由于评判标准的不同，而不被同时代的人所接受，只能期待后世的评判；例如在艺术领域，梵高就不被当代人接受，但是后世却将他的画视为珍宝
3、同样，由于一个人的伟大之处是需要时间来检验和证明的，由于知识水平的局限，所以有时很难为同时代人所客观判定，需要由后人来评判。例如在科学领域，哥白尼就惧怕日心说被教会反对，所以在临死之前才将这个言论发表；布鲁诺也因此被烧死。
4、诚然，有很多人的伟大之处是在他的时代就被认可的，比如牛顿，爱因斯坦，马丁；华盛顿；莫扎特的天才；毕加索的cubism；Bill Gates创造的微软神化等等
5、总结

【正文】(690 words)
As a subject way of evaluating, is the greatness of individuals exclusively decided by people living after them? The author claims so. However, to my viewpoint, contemporaries, though not so superior to the descendants, may also discover the famous few with greatness belonging to their same era, subject to two restraints of various laws for judging as well as the limit knowledge.

Process to decide the individuals' greatness is subject, variable accords with the judgers' era, knowledge held, social customs and environment, thus may appear quite surprising or even totally reverse results by different people.
We are so quite different with our ancestors, and will also various with people after us. We hold a newer, developing, high-technique, aesthetic perspective while our predesors are relative old and out-fashioned and the descendants are more advantageous. And this disclose, at least somewhat, the difference between people of comporary and their descendants.

First, on the one hand, greatness of someone is easily turn down under unsuitable judging laws in its same period. As time pass by, laws of evaluation is advancing, changing, and more content is involved, when the rejective recognition of someone's greatness may turn out to be acceptable. Look at Van Gogh, in the world of art. He almost got amazing in his epoch, impoverished, crazy-quite humble and his paintings were so hard to sell, let alone how cheap they were. This is the so-called honor that his era gives him. After hundreds of years, Van Gogh is no longer the one of his period; he is a person with big greatness winning would wide respects, a zenith of art skill, a sign and pronoun of most great painters. How could he get them all? Who decides, or correctly speaking, discovers his greatness? It is his decedents, people living after him, using different way to see and judge his works that decide and find his greatness.

On the other hand, because of limit and incomprehensive knowledge, people are hardly to understand and accept the discovery, invention, creation and so forth of their contemporaries, and thus miss lots of people with greatness. This is more prosaically in the scientific realm. So many knowledge or laws of science was widely recognized after its discoverer died many years. This is not enough. More absurdly, some great people without acknowledged even encountered persecution if their ideas or thinking are contradict to the main stream of the society, no matter this main stream are correct or not. Bruno, a guy holding on his belief of sun-centered theory, was burned by church man of his same era. And the theory’s discover, Copernicus, published his guess at his old age almost until he was going to die, only for fear of the resistant strength from church. These unacknowledged great few in their era, of course, left to their descendants, the ones having more knowledge, for a right judgment.

However, it is not to deny contemporaries do not decide the greatness of other at all, on the contrary they does, though may not for all. Think of these people: Newton and Einstein, famous scientists who already well known in their own era; Mozart approved of his music talent at early age; Picasso, first developing cubism and loved by people in him period; Lincoln or Martin Luther King, respected by their people for fighting against slavery and Bill Gates who creative a myth called software with plenty of admiration from his contemporaries. From science to art, from polity to economic, there have been people whose greatness was decided by people in their period. Besides, people are advancing step by step with more and more knowledge, and the more we know, the more people with greatness can be decided by us at the contemporary era.

All in all, the greatness of some is surly first created by him or her, themselves, and then evaluated or judged by others. Thanks to different standard for evaluating or judging, as well as knowledge limit, descendants are superior to contemporaries in this decision of greatness. And with the fast development of human beings, more and more people with greatness would be recognized at his own era.

谢谢拍~

[ 本帖最后由 kito9695 于 2006-2-14 18:38 编辑 ]

leedgenUID: 160823

小别的字数也和jingjing一样incredible啊

leedgenUID: 160823

As a subject[subjective] way of evaluating, is the greatness of individuals exclusively decided by people living after them? The author claims so. However, to my viewpoint, contemporaries, though not so superior to the descendants, may also discover the famous few with greatness belonging to their same era, subject to two restraints of various laws for judging as well as the limit [limited] knowledge.

Process to decide the individuals' greatness is subject [subjective], variable accords with the judgers' era, knowledge held, social customs and environment, thus may appear quite surprising or even totally reverse results by different people.
We are so quite [so 和quite只要用一个吧，两个我怎么读着就别扭呢] different with our ancestors, and will [be] also various with people after us. We hold a newer, developing, high-technique, aesthetic perspective while our predesors [ancestors?] are relative old and out-fashioned and the descendants are more advantageous. And this disclose, at least somewhat, the difference between [people of comporary] [contemporary] and their descendants. 看到这儿语法错误蛮多呀，小别，要尽量减少语法错误呀

First, on the one hand, greatness of someone is easily turn[turned] down under unsuitable judging laws in its same period. As time pass by, laws of evaluation is advancing, changing, and more content is involved, when the rejective recognition of someone's greatness may turn out to be acceptable. Look at Van Gogh, in the world of art. He almost got amazing in his epoch, impoverished, crazy-quite humble and his paintings were so hard to sell, let alone how cheap they were. This is the so-called honor that his era gives him. After hundreds of years, Van Gogh is no longer the one of his period; he is a person with big greatness winning would wide respects[这句看不懂来，语法不太对], a zenith of art skill, a sign and pronoun of most great painters. How could he get them all? Who decides, or correctly speaking, discovers his greatness? It is his decedents, people living after him, using different way to see and judge his works that decide and find his greatness.凡高这个例子有点长啊，稍微精简点，然后分析一下比较好哟

On the other hand, because of limit and incomprehensive knowledge, people are hardly to understand and accept the discovery, invention, creation and so forth of their contemporaries, and thus miss lots of people with greatness. This is more prosaically in the scientific realm. So many knowledge or laws of science was widely recognized after its discoverer died many years. This is not enough. More absurdly, some great people without acknowledged even encountered persecution if their ideas or thinking are contradict to the main stream of the society, no matter this main stream are correct or not. Bruno, a guy holding on his belief of sun-centered theory, was burned by church man of his same era. And the theory’s discover, Copernicus, published his guess at his old age almost until he was going to die, only for fear of the resistant strength from church. These unacknowledged great few in their era, of course, left to their descendants, the ones having more knowledge, for a right judgment.

However, it is not to deny [it is no doubt that] contemporaries do not decide the greatness of other at all, on the contrary they does, though may not for all. Think of these people: Newton and Einstein, famous scientists who [had been] already well known in their own era; Mozart approved of his music talent at early age; Picasso, first developing cubism and loved by people in him period; Lincoln or Martin Luther King, respected by their people for fighting against slavery and Bill Gates who creative a myth called software with plenty of admiration from his contemporaries.[强啊，这么多例子啊] From science to art, from polity to economic, there have been people whose greatness was decided by people in their period. Besides, people are advancing step by step with more and more knowledge, and the more we know, the more people with greatness can be decided by us at the contemporary era.

All in all, the greatness of some is surly first created by him or her, themselves, and then evaluated or judged by others. Thanks to different standard for evaluating or judging, as well as knowledge limit, descendants are superior to contemporaries in this decision of greatness. And with the fast development of human beings, more and more people with greatness would be recognized at his own era.

提纲很赞，例子丰富，但是语法错误太多啦，好多语言不地道啊，或者是我孤陋寡闻了:L

kito9695UID: 209685

[By] the [subjective] way of evaluating, is the greatness of individuals exclusively decided by people living after them? The author claims so. However, to my viewpoint, contemporaries, though not so superior to the descendants, may also discover the famous few with greatness [of] their same era, subject to two restraints of various [standard] for judging as well as the [limited] knowledge.

Process of deciding the individuals' greatness accords with the judgers' era, knowledge, and social environment, subjective and variable, thus may achieve quite surprising or even totally reverse results by different people. We are so different with our ancestors, and will also [be] various with people after us. We hold a newer, developing, high-technological and aesthetic perspective while our ancestors are relative out-fashioned as well as the descendants are more advanced. This [discloses], at least somewhat, the difference between people of the same era and the ones live after them.

First, on the one hand, greatness of someone is easily [turned] down under undue contemporary judging standard. However, as time pass by, the standard of evaluation is advancing, changing, with more content involved, and the rejective recognition of someone's greatness may turn out to be acceptable. Look at Van Gogh, in the world of art. He almost got amazing in his epoch, impoverished, crazy and humble. His paintings were so hard to sell, let alone how cheap they were. This is the so-called honor that his era gives him. After hundreds of years, Van Gogh is no longer the [unacknowledged one at] his period, but a person with big greatness [and worldwide] respects, a zenith of art skill, a sign and pronoun of most great painters. The two different evaluations from people in different eras tell us that it is just decedents, the people living after him, can better see and understand the greatness of this outstanding painter, using a quite different way from his contemporaries.

On the other hand, because of limited and incomprehensive knowledge, people are hardly to understand and accept the discovery, invention, creation and so forth [by] their contemporaries, and thus miss understanding lots of peoples’ greatness. This [exists] more prosaically in the scientific realm. So many knowledge or scientific laws were widely recognized only after its discoverer died many years. This is not enough. More absurdly, some great people not yet acknowledged even encountered persecution if their ideas or thinking were contradict to the main stream of their society, no matter this main stream are correct or not. Bruno, a guy holding on his belief of sun-centered theory, was burned by church man of his same era. And the theory’s discover, Copernicus, published his guess at his old age-almost until he was going to die, for fear of the resistant strength from the church. These unacknowledged great few in their era, of course, left to their descendants, the ones having more knowledge, for a right judgment.

However, it is not to deny contemporaries can decide the greatness of others, though may not for all. Think of these people: Newton and Einstein, famous scientists who already known in their own era; Mozart, approved of his music talent at early age; Picasso, the one first developing cubism and loved by people in his period; Lincoln or Martin Luther King, public officials respected by their people for fighting against slavery and Bill Gates, a businessman who creates a myth called software with plenty of admiration from his contemporaries. From science to art, from polity to economic, there have been people whose greatness was decided by ones living in their own period. Besides, people are advancing step by step with more and more knowledge, and the more humans know, the more people with greatness can be decided by others at the contemporary era.

All in all, the greatness of some is surly first created by him or her, themselves, and then evaluated or judged by others. Thanks to different standard for evaluating or judging, as well as knowledge limit, descendants are superior to contemporaries in this decision of greatness. And with the fast development of human beings, more and more people with greatness would be recognized at his own era.

kito9695UID: 209685

要是还有好心人愿意帮我改的话，改4楼这个改过的版本~~

小室黄瓜UID: 2155213

占座！！！我的还没写呢。明天来~

cameo_yangluUID: 2322498

大人…………我觉得你的文章很华丽很熟练 但是不流畅。排比虽然是排比但是读起来没有一气呵成的感觉 断断续续的…………不过gre可能不太看重这个吧 毕竟大人的思想和例子都很到家了:)