issue124 0706G中华龙小组第四次作业 （拍打我的PP版本）

hjackyUID: 2179923

TOPIC: ISSUE124 - "Instant foods, instant communication, faster transportation-all of these recent developments are designed to save time. Ironically, though, instead of making more leisure time available, these developments have contributed to a pace of human affairs that is more rushed and more frantic than ever before."
WORDS: 631       TIME: 上午 45:00          DATE: 2006-11-21

With the development of the service industry, a lot of instant services have  sprung up and more time is saved. But some people said that rather than  enjoying more leisure time, our society is more rushed and frantic because  of the contribution of these development. In my opinion, it is not the instant  services themselves that fast the pace of our lives, and we need to stop by to  rethink the meanings of our lives in order to decide the appropriate pace of our own.

To start with, it is true that  the development of the instant services have  saved us quite a lot of time for other use. You can see the KFC and MacDonald  almost in any big city. And if you are in a hurry, you can just spend 3  minutes stepping into the shop and fetch a pack of fast food, then have your  lunch on the way of your office meeting. Without these services, you have to  choose between your office meeting and your lunch, whichever when  sacrificed may bring us a lot of trouble. But we set up these kinds of instant  services industry to save time instead of get a rapid pace of living, then why  do the pace of our society have gone against our original intention with the  development of the instant services?

Firstly. nowadays ,under the philosophy of pragmaticism--only the things  make senses are worth doing, people have poured much of their time to the  " significant" things: working, studying, researching, earning  all kinds of  awards and money and etc. As a result, people seems to forget to enjoy  their happiness and leisure time at the moment, what they always keep in  their minds is the prosperity of a golden future instead of  enjoying their  lives at the moment.

What's more, people are spending more rush times to get to their pursuits  and satisfy their personal desires. In the modern world, more and more  people have various dreams and all kinds of ambitious pursuits. It is true  that a myriads of instant services have saved us a lot of time. But, what do  we do with these precious time which is saved out through the quite a long  time's development of technologies? We just go back to the business and  competition battles. We want to be the man who smiles triumphantly at last, so  we spend all our time available to get progress and success thinking of  running ahead of others, when they are  relaxing, sleeping or enjoying their  happiness . But on the way of a series of ambitious pursuits, we seems to  forget our original intention of being in the world, we seldom stop by and  take a serious look at our own lives, sometimes we completely get lost in  front of our endless desires. Finally , we feel tired.

So it is time that we stop , and ask ourselves what is the meanings of our  own being. Is it to repay somebody? To be a national hero or heroine? Or to  be the man your parents want? Or anything else that can define the  meaning of your life .At the same time, we should pay much of our attention  to the course of pursuiting rather than the meaningless results. You may be  moved to cry at the moment of your success, but it is the efforts and  difficulties you challenged in the course of pursuiting that have moved you,  not the meangless results which passed away in several seconds.

Therefore we should not blame the instant services for fasting the pace of  our lives. It is the meanings of our own lives that is worthy of our pondering in  case we get lost in front of ourselves or feel empty with " so much" leisure  time.

jingzhang514UID: 2163811

With the development of the service industry, a lot of instant services have sprung up and more time is saved. But some people said that rather than [这里改为instead of 是否会好些呢] enjoying more leisure time, our society is more rushed and frantic because  of the contribution of these development. In my opinion, it is not the instant  services themselves that fast the pace of our lives, and we need to stop by to  rethink the meanings of our lives in order to decide the appropriate pace of our own.
To start with, it is true that  the development of the instant services have  saved us quite a lot of time for other use. You can see the KFC and MacDonald  almost in any big city[用复数]. And if you are in a hurry, you can just spend 3  minutes stepping into the shop and fetch a pack of fast food, then have your  lunch on the way of[改为to] your office meeting. Without these services, you have to  choose between your office meeting and your lunch, whichever when[去掉]  sacrificed may bring us a lot of trouble. But we set up these kinds of instant  services industry to save time instead of get[加ing,改为getting] a rapid pace of living, then why  do the pace of our society have gone against our original intention with the  development of the instant services?
Firstly. nowadays ,under the philosophy of pragmaticism--only the things  make senses are worth doing, people have poured much of their time to the  " significant" things: working, studying, researching, earning  all kinds of  awards and money and etc. As a result, people seems to forget to enjoy  their happiness and leisure time at the moment, what they always keep in  their minds is the prosperity of a golden future instead of  enjoying their  lives at the moment[前后at the moment, 是否能去掉一个呢].
What's more, people are spending more rush times to get to their pursuits  and satisfy their personal desires. In the modern world, more and more  people have various dreams and all kinds of ambitious pursuits. It is true  that a myriads of instant services have saved us a lot of time. But, what do  we do with these precious time which is saved out [through改为by是否会好些] [the quite a long  time's development of technologies就用developed technology]? We just go back to the business and competition battles. [这里加个过渡的词语会好些，in this areas,][We改为most of us] want to be the man who smiles triumphantly at last, so  we spend all our time available to get progress and[ success thinking of  running 改为to run]ahead of others, [when they are改为reducing the necessary]  relaxing, sleeping or enjoying their  happiness . But on the way of a [series 去掉s] of ambitious pursuits, we seems to  forget our original intention of being in the world, we seldom stop by and  take a serious look at our own lives, sometimes we completely get lost in  front of our endless desires. Finally , we feel tired.
So it is time that we stop , and ask ourselves what is the meanings of our  own being. Is it to repay somebody? To be a national hero or heroine? Or to  be the man your parents want? Or anything else that can define the  meaning of your life .At the same time, we should pay much of our attention  to the course of pursuiting rather than the meaningless results. You may be  moved to cry at the moment of your success, but it is the efforts and  difficulties you challenged in the course of pursuiting that have moved you,  not the meangless results which passed away in several seconds.
Therefore we should not blame the instant services for fasting the pace of  our lives. It is the meanings of our own lives that is worthy of our pondering in  case we get lost in front of ourselves or feel empty with " so much" leisure  time.