Awards and prizes are given for excellence in various fields. Do these awards and prizes serve a useful purpose? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
A prize or award, whether it's the Noble Prize, the Academy Award, or Best Handwriting Prize, is important. Such prizes can have economic, personal, and social effects that enrich the life of the recipient.
无论是诺贝尔奖、奥斯卡奖还是最佳笔迹奖，都是很重要的。这样的奖品可以有经济的、个人的和社会的影响，丰富受奖人的生活。
Prize like the Noble Prize can be a cash award. But ever for prizes that don't, like the Academy Award, an actress who wins best actress will be offered more roles and a higher pay than actresses who don't win the award. Even for the elementary student who received the school's Best Handwriting award may get a congratulations gift from proud grandparents.
像诺贝尔奖一样的奖品可以是现金奖。但是，对于像奥斯卡奖这样的奖项，获得最佳女演员奖的女演员将获得比未获得该奖的女演员更多的角色和更高的报酬。即使是获得学校最佳笔迹奖的小学生，也可以从自豪的祖父母那里得到一份祝贺礼物。
The personal benefits of receiving any award are evident. Any award winner is pleased that be or she has been recognized for his or her work. When people receive the Academy Award, they often cry they are so happy.
获得任何奖项的个人好处都是显而易见的。任何获奖者都会为自己的工作获得认可而感到高兴。当人们获得奥斯卡金像奖时，他们常常哭得很开心。
Everyone likes to be with a winner. A person who gets a prize often has many new, best friends. A winner's social life is much better than a loser's social life. The winner of the Best Handwriting prize may not be very popular with his or her jealous classmates, however.
每个人都喜欢和获奖者在一起。得奖的人往往有许多新的、最好的朋友。胜利者的社交生活比失败者的社交生活要好得多。“最佳笔迹奖”的获得者可能不太受嫉妒的同学的欢迎，但是
Awards serve a very useful purpose in that their economic, personal, and social benefits add to the recognition.
这些奖项有一个非常有用的目的，那就是他们的经济、个人和社会利益会增加对他们的认可