劉文勇GRE寫作百日題庫 Day 140

Day 140 Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study

Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

【本題與Day 13、Day 46、Day 70、Day 102、Day 112相似】

五問：

可參考Day 13的思考路徑

翻譯練習(xí)：

沒人比你自己更了解自己：最大化地利用你的優(yōu)勢，找到方法彌補(bǔ)你的缺點(diǎn)。因此，每個(gè)人都應(yīng)該被給予自己做選擇的自由。當(dāng)比爾·蓋茨年輕時(shí)，他被期望成為像他父親那樣的律師，且事實(shí)上他也進(jìn)入了哈佛大學(xué)，成為一名法律專業(yè)的學(xué)生。但是，如果他的父母在他最終選擇輟學(xué)的時(shí)候沒有尊重他的決定，他可能最終只會(huì)成為一名普通的律師。

參考答案：

No one can know you better than do you yourself: making best use of your strengths, finding ways to make up for your weaknesses. Therefore, everyone should be given the freedom to make his/her own choices. When he was young, Bill Gates was expected to become a lawyer like his father, and he actually went into Harvard as a law student. Yet if his parents had not respected his decision when he finally chose to drop out of the university, he may have ended up as a mediocre lawyer.