2017年12月英语四级美文:The Two Drives in Man

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  2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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  The Two Drives in Man

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  Man is, at one and the same time,

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  a solitary being and a social being.

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  As a solitary being,

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  he attempts to protect his own existence

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  and that of those who are closest to him,

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  to satisfy his personal desires,

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  and to develop his innate abilities.

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  As a social being,

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  he seeks to gain the recognition and affection

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  of his fellow human beings,

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  to share in their pleasures,

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  to comfort them in their sorrows,

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  and to improve their conditions of life.

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  Only the existence of these varied,

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  frequently conflicting, strivings accounts

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  for the special character of a man,

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  and their specific combination determines the extent

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  to which an individual can achieve

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  and in an inner balance

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  and can contribute to the well-being of society.

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  It is quite possible that the relative strength of these two drives is,

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  in the main, fixed by inheritance.

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  But the personality that finally emerges

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  is largely formed by the environment

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  in which a man happens to find himself during his development,

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  by the structure of the society in which he grows up,

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  by the tradition of that society,

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  and by its evaluation of particular types of behavior.

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  The abstract concept “society” means to the individual human being

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  the sum total of his direct

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  and indirect relations to his contemporaries

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  and to all the people of earlier generations.

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  The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself;

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  but he depends so much upon society —

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  in his physical, intellectual,

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  and emotional existence —

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  that it is impossible to think of him,

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  or to understand him,

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  outside the framework of society.

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  It is “society” which provides man with food, clothing,

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  a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought,

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  and most of the content of thought;

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  his life is made possible through the labor

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  and accomplishments of the many millions past and present

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  who are all hidden behind the small word “society”.

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