ISSUE10【0706G－~4而后生~小组】第4次作业

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"Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive, because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated."

Although major cities are playing a role of preserving a nation’s cultural traditions, some small ones and even some rural places are doing the same things, so governments should ensure both of them to receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.

Big cities, especially those have a long history such as Beijing, Kyoto and so on, are preserving the splendid tradition of their nation and of course demanding amounts of money to thrive. Kyoto, the only major city of Japan to be spared from the bombs of World War II, has long stood for preservation, where the historic district hasn’t changed its look much in thousands of years and still boasts dozens of serene temples, shrines, wooden homes and even two Imperial Palaces. Every year, lots of money are paid, by the government, to remedy the classic Japanese architectures in Kyoto so that the city will look like a museum which conserves the traditional way of Japanese life from drastic cultural change. Beijing, another city used to live emperors in the past, seems to enjoy its modern image as a world-famous metropolis by holding the 2008 Olympic Games and it is said that the government will spend several billion of dollars on that programs. Hence, these two examples show us that major cities which hold the nation’s cultural traditions should be financial support for their further development.

However, some small towns will also be capable of generating cultural traditions, on which the payment could be a really good investment. Angouleme, a southwest French town which has a population of only 40,000, containing many interesting reminders of its historical significance as a fortress town 7 centuries ago, has become the capital of European comics since its annual International Comics Festival beginning at 1974. This vivid town has accomplished a transformation from a historic fortress to a center of European comics during the past 30 years, and this transformation could be viewed as a process of generating cultural traditions. Many comic studios are attracted to reside in it, some artistic schools of comics are established and a national comic museum is built, all of the above are benefit from the government’s policies and financial supports. Now, this small town is visited annually by 200,000 tourists, five times than its citizens, and the France government is still investing on it.

In fact, it is not the size of a city that could determine whether it may preserve or generate cultural traditions. Big cities may be nothing more than chaos, and small villages might be an intact preservation of a nation’s cultural traditions. The government should support both the major cities and the small villages as long as they could stand for the nation’s past or new traditions.


关于政府的文章我觉得都很不好写。。。

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"Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive, because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated."

Although major cities are playing a role of preserving a nation’s cultural traditions, some small ones and even some rural places are doing the same things, so governments should ensure both of them to receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.

Big cities, especially those have a long history such as Beijing, Kyoto and so on, are preserving the splendid tradition of their nation and of course demanding amounts of money to thrive. Kyoto, the only major city of Japan to be spared from the bombs of World War II, has long stood for preservation, where the historic district hasn’t changed its look much in thousands of years and still boasts dozens of serene temples, shrines, wooden homes and even two Imperial Palaces. Every year, lots of money are paid, by the government, to remedy the classic Japanese architectures in Kyoto so that the city will look like a museum which conserves the traditional way of Japanese life from drastic cultural change. Beijing, another city used to live emperors in the past, seems to enjoy its modern image as a world-famous metropolis by holding the 2008 Olympic Games and it is said that the government will spend several billion of dollars on that programs(北京enjoy its modern image感觉是个反例，应该在前面加In contrast). Hence, these two examples show us that major cities which hold the nation’s cultural traditions should be financial support for their further development.

However, some small towns will also be capable of generating cultural traditions, on which the payment could be a really good investment. Angouleme, a southwest French town which has a population of only 40,000, containing many interesting reminders of its historical significance as a fortress town 7 centuries ago, has become the capital of European comics since its annual International Comics Festival beginning at 1974. This vivid town has accomplished a transformation from a historic fortress to a center of European comics during the past 30 years, and this transformation could be viewed as a process of generating cultural traditions. Many comic studios are attracted to reside in it, some artistic schools of comics are established and a national comic museum is built, all of the above are benefit from the government’s policies and financial supports. Now, this small town is visited annually by 200,000 tourists, five times than its citizens, and the France government is still investing on it.

In fact, it is not the size of a city that could determine whether it may preserve or generate cultural traditions. Big cities may be nothing more than chaos, and small villages might be an intact preservation of a nation’s cultural traditions. The government should support both the major cities and the small villages as long as they could stand for the nation’s past or new traditions.

我有个想法，因为LZ认为governments should ensure both of them to receive the financial support they need in order to thrive但仅仅举出了major cities和small towns的两方面的例子而没有太多的论证，不知道可不可以，我也想与LZ探讨一下，因为我也有这个疑问
不过单从例子上看确实很有说服力，语言没什么毛病而且很好
我无法挑出什么问题

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我就不拷贝搂主的帖子了，从语言细节上我可看不出什莫毛病了；但也是觉得北京是个反例，依楼主的角度就在强调北京的现代化而不是其对保留传统作出的贡献。然后我有对题目的理解问题想问一下，有点钻牛角尖，题目说是major city 我把它理解为“主要城市” ，（虽然major有“大的”的意思可我觉得它还是包含‘主要’的意思），它没说是big city “大城市”，大城市是一人口为标准的，但主要的城市是以其重要性而论的，像法国小镇的例子，它即使有那莫大作用他就是主要城市了，就不能放在这了，呵呵，这个问题实在有点傻，但我写时真的这莫想过，就没敢举类似的例子，我这莫想是不是不但对啊？我觉得我不对，呵呵。

[ 本帖最后由 hezhifei2008 于 2007-3-17 01:47 编辑 ]