54. "History teaches us only one thing: knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today."
历史只教会了我们一件事：了解过去无助于人们今天做出重要的决定。
Disagree
1. It is a common misconception that what happened in the past has nothing to do with present society.
2. Individually, men can learn from the experience of great figures in history.
3. In business, case studies enable business people to confront their every day challenges.
4. Admittedly, there are entirely new problems that we have to cope with on our own without any precedent in history to refer to.
时间问题之历史不是今天的一面镜子
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103. "The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."
只有研究和我们日常生活相关的历史才有价值。
1. To begin with, learning about great human achievements of the past provides inspiration.
2. In addition, mistakes of the past can teach us as a society how to avoid repeating those mistakes.
3. Studying human history can also help us understand and appreciate the mores, values, and ideals of past cultures.
4. Appreciating history can serve to elevate our everyday chores to richer, more interesting, and more enjoyable experience.
历史研究
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110. "When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers."
当我们通过研究历史来考虑自身问题的时候，我们就会变成说故事的人。因为我们不可能直接了解过去，只有通过解释一些史料来构造历史，所以探索历史更多是一件创造性的事业而不是客观的追寻。所有的历史学家都是讲故事的人。
I agree that it is the proper and necessary role of historians to “construct” history by interpreting evidence. Nevertheless, the speaker’s characterization of this role as “storytelling” carries certain unfair implications, which should be addressed.
1. Unless we grant to the historian a license to “construct” history by interpreting evidence, we relegate the historian to the role of mere archivist or journalist.
2. The inexorable result of disagreement, debate, and divergent interpretations among historians is a fuller and more incisive understanding of history.
3. However, we should be careful not to confuse this license to interpret history, which is needed for any historian to contribute meaningfully to our understanding of it, with artistic license, which should be reserved for dramatists, novelists and poets.
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