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2017年12月英语四级美文:Versatile Man

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  2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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  Versatile Man

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  It is, perhaps,

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  no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past

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  were exceptionally versatile men.

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  Right up until comparatively recent times,

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  it was possible for an intelligent person

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  to acquaint himself with almost every branch of knowledge.

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  Thus, men of genius like Leonardo da Vinci or Sir Philip Sidney,

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  engaged in many careers at once as a matter of course.

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  Da Vinci was so busy with his numerous inventions,

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  that he barely found the time to complete his paintings;

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  Sidney, who died in battle

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  when he was only thirty-two years old,

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  was not only a great soldier,

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  but a brilliant scholar and poet as well.

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  Both these men came very near

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  to fulfilling the Renaissance ideal of the “universal man”,

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  the man who was good at everything.

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  Today, we rarely, if ever,

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  hear that a musician has just invented a new type of submarine.

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  Knowledge has become divided and sub-divided into countless,

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  narrowly-defined parts.

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  The specialist is respected;

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  the versatile person, far from being admired,

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  is more often regarded with suspicion.

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  The modern world is a world of highly-skilled “experts”

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  who have had to devote the greater part of their lives

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  to a very limited field of study

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  in order to compete with their fellows.

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  With this high degree of specialization,

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  the frontiers of knowledge are steadily being pushed back

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  more rapidly than ever before.

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  But this has not been achieved without considerable cost.

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  The scientist,

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  who outside his own particular subject is little more than an idiot,

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  is a modern phenomenon;

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  as is the man of letters who is barely aware of the tremendous strides

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  that have been made in technology.

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  Similarly,

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  specialization has indirectly affected quite ordinary people

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  in every walk of life.

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  Many activities which were once pursued for their own sakes,

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  are often given up in despair:

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  they require techniques,

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  the experts tell us,

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  which take a life-time to master.

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  Why learn to play the piano,

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  when you can listen to the world’s greatest pianists

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  in your own drawing-room?

  2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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