首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers
Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers
admin
2021-12-29
40
问题
Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken lag or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or manured a field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently— this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done—is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some ways of settling their dispute other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. And not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might is right.
That is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. Even our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history, in which millions of people were killed or mutilated. And while today it is true that people do not fight and kill each other in the streets—while, that is to say, we have got to the stage of keeping the rules and behaving properly to each other in daily life—nations and countries have not learnt to do this yet, and still behave like savages.
But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started. From the point of view of evolution human beings are very young children indeed, babies, in fact, of a few months old. Scientists reckon that there has been life of some sort on the earth in the form of jelly fish and that kind of creature for about twelve hundred million years; but there have been men for only one million years, and there have been civilized men for about eight thousand years at the outside. These figures are difficult to grasp; so let us scale them down. Suppose that we reckon the whole past of living creatures on the earth as one hundred years; then the whole past of man works out at about one month, and during that month there have been civilizations for between seven and eight hours. So you see there has been little time to learn in, but there will the oceans of time in which to learn better. Taking man’s civilized past at about seven or eight hours, we may estimate his future, that is to say, the whole period between now and when the sun grows too cold to maintain life any longer on the earth, at about one hundred thousand years. Thus mankind is only at the beginning of its civilized life, and as I say, we must not expect too much. The past of man has been on the whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and bullying and gorging and grabbing and hurting. We must not expect even civilized people not to have done these things. All we can ask is that they will sometimes have done something else.
Which are the possible countries that ruled over a large number of other countries?
选项
答案
The countries that won the greatest number of battles against other countries.
解析
文章第一段提到,大多数人认为,最伟大的国家是那些在战争中打败最多其他国家并以征服者的身份统治他们的国家。因此最可能统治其他国家的是那些赢得最多战争的国家。由此可知本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/ARAMFFFM
本试题收录于:
B类竞赛(英语专业本科专科)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
B类竞赛(英语专业本科专科)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
Bydegreestheshutterswereopened:thewindow-blindsweredrawnup,andpeoplebeganpassingtoand【C1】______.Somefewstoppe
Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessaytodescribethecartoonandgiveyourcommentsonit.Youshouldwrite
ThestatueoftheLittleMermaidisafamouscity______andamajortourists’attractioninDenmark.
HadDickensforeseenthathisnovelwouldcausesuchadisturbance,he______it.
Writeareportinaround120wordstodescribethewaterdistributionontheearthandwriteitontheanswersheet.
Rearrangethefollowingtoformtwoconnectedwords.TOUGHDUNFACETIKUR
WhichofthefollowingsisNOTareasonwhywomenbossesareunpopular?
Findthemissingnumber.
Studentscanchoosefromabouttenessaystitlesfortheirfirstassignment.
随机试题
Whichofthefollowingisthemainpsychologicalsymptomofsmokerswhoquit?______.Whatisthemostsuitabletitleofthepa
女性,50岁,体检时发现左肺下叶边缘部一直径3cm肿物,边界不清。组织学检查示肿瘤形成腺体,细胞异型性明显,核分裂象多见。应诊断为
在标准状态下,氦气和氢气气体体积相同,它们分子的平均动能和平均平动动能的关系为()。
按《水利工程建设程序管理暂行规定》的要求,水利工程建设程序的最后一个阶段为()。
商业银行接受客户委托进行投资操作和资产管理业务活动,应与客户签订合同,确保获得客户的充分授权。()
美国心理学家沙依(Schaie)认为老年期智力活动的性质是
设总体X~N(μ,σ2),X1,X2,X3是来自X的样本,试证:估计量都是μ的无偏估计,并指出它们中哪一个最有效.
假设您负责开发这个项目请用200字简要阐述信息化建设方案实施前该烟草公司以及您公司应做些什么准备工作。按照我国烟草专卖法,烟草行业目前实行“政企合一”、“专卖专营”管理体制。该烟草专卖局下设专卖处、烟草稽查支队、稽查中队,依法对卷烟市场进行执法检查、案
纵栏式窗体将窗体中的一个显示记录按列分隔,每列的左边显示【】右边显示字段内容。
Incollege,Iencounteredaruleofthumb:Foreverycredithourperweek,youshouldbestudyingtwotothreehours【C1】________
最新回复
(
0
)