Topic:
Where to Look for our Environment?
In this picture, two men are in a physical environment which looks like a coal mine. With a smiling face, the workman is simply intoxicated with his work—digging the mine whose several fissures indicate it is about to collapse soon. Perhaps he can make lots of money from the coal he is digging for. Another man, with an anxious look on his face, is searching for ‘environment’ with a powerful telescope.
his is a thought-provoking picture because it is symbolic and ironic, replete with profound implications. The workman symbolizes the blind-folded drive for economic profits at the expense of our environment whereas the man with the telescope symbolizes inaction and vain anxieties. We do not need to look into distant places for a beautiful environment after all! The environment is right around us, on our campus, in our local communities, in the gardens and parks just near where we live.
Beautiful environments are everywhere, as long as we know how to protect and preserve them. The problem with the man with the telescope is that he is an escapist. Instead of taking action to stop and prevent the destruction of our otherwise beautiful environment, he simply looks for an environment elsewhere where he can escape to. If we all become escapists like him, we will end up with no livable environments at all. This picture tells us that the earth is our sole environment and, to save our environment, we must act right now and act right here.
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题目:
美好环境 何处寻觅？
在本图中，有二个人置身于某个视若煤矿的物质环境中。一个工人脸带微笑，十分陶醉于其劳动成果——在煤矿中不断挖掘，而该煤矿的若干裂缝表明，它不久就会崩塌。或许，他可以从他所挖的煤中大赚一笔。而另一个人，满脸焦虑，正手持一个大功率望远镜，寻找着心目中的美好环境。
这幅图片发人深思，因为它富含象征意味与讽刺色彩，并充满深刻的含义。挖煤的工人象征着对经济利润的盲目追求，不惜牺牲我们赖于生存的环境。与此同时，手持望远镜的男子则象征着不作为与干着急。毕竟而言，我们毫无必要将目光投向远处，去寻觅我们美丽的环境。这个美丽的环境就在我们的身边，在我们的校园，在我们当地的社区，在紧挨着我们居住场所的花园与公园。
美丽的环境无处不在，唯一的条件是，我们必须懂得如何去保护并保存它们。那位手持望远镜的男子，其问题在于，他只是一个逃跑主义者。他没有采取行动去阻止和预防破坏我们美丽家园的行为，而仅仅想另觅一个他可以逃亡的新环境。倘若我们全都成为他那样的逃跑主义者，我们终将沦落，没有一处宜居的环境可供栖身。这幅图画告诉我们的是，地球是我们的唯一环境，而要拯救这一环境，我们必须马上就付诸行动，就在此时，就在此地！ |
