会议要简短-A Laconic Answer to Our Meeti.
会议要简短
【内容提示】
人们都讨厌并反对冗长的讲话和拖沓的会议。但是，在学校、在行政机关、在其他一些事业单位等，开会是经常性的，而且一开就是一天，半天，至少也有一两个钟头。有些领导一讲话就拖泥带水，总要拖好长时间。请你结合自己的所见所闻和亲身体会对这一问题发表看法，把论点集中在简短会议、珍惜时间上。要求写一篇归纳推理的议论文。
以下词语供参考：
1．Spartus n．斯巴达人 2．Laconia n．拉哥尼亚 3．Lacons n．拉哥（尼亚）人 4．tycoon n．企业巨头 5．laconic a．简洁的；简短的
【作文示范】
A Laconic Answer to Our Meetings
I heard that in ancient Greece there lived a people called Spartus. The Spartus were famous for their bravery and simple life. As they lived in Laconia, they were also called Lacons. The Lacons had a lot of strange rules. One of them was that they should speak briefly and never use more words than needed.
This story made me think of a junior middle school classmate of mine. Once he told me that their Leagus secretary often put them to the trouble of long meetings, at which she would made long, long speeches, all empty words. Everybody suffered. Such meetings achieve little and waste precious time. But she herself did not realize it. If anyone dared to prevent her from speaking or get in some words to cut her short, she would get angry and CRIticize him severely.①
My friend said regretfully②, “I would rather be regarded as a bad student. Only in this way could I make free use of my precious time.”Such a remark sounds discouraging. But such things not only happen in my friend＇s school, but also in many offices and units. Everyone must always bear in mind③that time is money, time means life. Today, if one still enjoys a two-hour meeting over a cup of tea and a cigarette, he is wasting his life, and the lives of others as well.
In fact people had taken measures to cut the meetings short before. A Japanese tycoon once suggested that his officials keep standing during the meetings. It was reported as “getting rid of chairs”. In the United States, there was once a kind of two-minute meetings. And in my class the monitor once had us stand during a class meeting, just as the tycoon did. Although it seemed funny, it showed that we were all fed up with④ unnecessary long meetings.
Time is money; time is life. We must all treat time as a treasure, especially in our modern world.
Laconic meetings, or no meetings at all.
【词语解释】
①severely[si＇vi li]ad．严厉地；严肃地
②regretfully[ri＇gretfuli] ad．懊悔地；遗憾地）
③bear in mind记住
④(be) fed up with（对……）极其厌倦
【写法指要】
本文先举出古代拉哥尼亚人的一条章程，要求人们说话要简洁。因此，英语中有一个意为“简洁的”形容词就是“拉哥尼亚”的形容词“laconic”。然后作者想到他的同学班会开得过长，干部说话冗繁的事实。由此得出结论，人们要珍惜时间，爱惜生命，说短话开短会。接着又举了日本企业巨头，美国两分钟会议，他们班开短会的论据进行了论证。最后得出的论点是：开会要简短或干脆不开会。所以，我们说本文是归纳推理的议论文。
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