劉文勇GRE寫作百日題庫 Day 48

Day 48 Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts

Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

五問：

（1）建議大家在做這個題目之前先翻翻字典，別著急論述，先看看什么是“ facts”？什么是“ ideas”？什么是“ trends”？什么是“ concepts”？別偷懶，這些概念以后也能用得上。

（2）以上這些概念之間是什么關(guān)系？是否有包含關(guān)系？是否有先后順序？是否有延伸關(guān)系？尤其是“facts”與其他概念之間有何關(guān)系？

（3）你認(rèn)為，教育者或者老師，更應(yīng)該先教授哪部分內(nèi)容（答案并不唯一）？你能說說具體的原因嗎？若是能舉個例子就更好了。例如：如果學(xué)生們記不住乘法口訣表，即便理解了乘法的基本原理，他們?nèi)耘f無法熟練地進行乘法運算。

（4）先學(xué)習(xí)事實有什么額外的好處？例如：可以先明確一些基本的原則和規(guī)律。先學(xué)習(xí)概念有什么好處呢？例如：有助于對事實的理解和吸收。你更傾向于哪一種？或者你認(rèn)為兩者應(yīng)該如何結(jié)合？以什么樣的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)結(jié)合在一起？

（5）對原文中“only”這個表示“唯一，僅有”意思的極端詞，你贊同嗎？

翻譯練習(xí)：

我們的知識不是通過累積純粹的事實而擴展的。它是在發(fā)現(xiàn)事實背后隱藏的抽象原理，然后通過對事實的預(yù)測來檢驗原理的可信性的過程中建立起來的。在這種意義上，事實和概念是以一種互補的關(guān)系存在的，同時會各自加深我們對另一方的理解；把它們按先后順序排列是過于專制和不理智的做法。

參考答案：

Our knowledge doesn't extend through pure accumulation of facts. Instead, it establishes itself in the process of discovering the abstract principle behind these facts and then testing the credibility of the principle through prediction of facts. In this sense, facts and concepts exist in a complementary relationship, each deepening our understanding of the other; it is too arbitrary and unsensible to put them in sequential order.