Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to study history and literature than it is for them to study science and mathematics. Use specific reasons and details to support your opinion.
I think it's more important for students to study history and literature. these subjects help us understand the human race and feed our spirits and our imaginations. That's more important than understanding how to split the atom or do algebra.
我认为对学生来说学习历史和文学更重要。这些科目有助于我们了解人类，激发我们的精神和想象力。这比理解如何分裂原子或代数更重要。
People talk about a crisis of spirit in our country. They mean we've forgotten how to believe in and understand our own better natures. I think part of this is because we've become too excited about facts and not enough about things we can't see and measure. Reading books from our own culture helps us understand our roots. Reading books from other cultures helps us understand the way other people think and react to situations. It also teaches us that we're not so very different from others, and that leads to better relations between cultures.
人们谈论我们国家的精神危机。他们的意思是我们已经忘记了如何相信和理解自己更好的天性。我认为部分原因是我们对事实太过兴奋，对我们看不到、衡量不到的东西也不够兴奋。阅读来自我们自己文化的书籍有助于我们理解自己的根源。阅读其他文化的书籍有助于我们理解他人的思维方式和对情况的反应。它还告诉我们，我们与其他人并没有太大的不同，这导致了文化之间更好的关系。
Reading literature also feeds our spirits. Even when the material we're reading is about terrible sadness and hardship, it still brings us in touch with our inner selves. It makes us think about issues other than new car we want to drive or how much money we're making.
阅读文学也滋养了我们的精神。即使我们重新阅读的材料是关于可怕的悲伤和困苦的，它仍然会让我们接触到我们内心的自我。它让我们思考的问题不是我们想开的新车，也不是我们赚了多少钱。
Studying history gives us more information than just who died when or who won which war. It tell us about how human beings have related to each other at different periods in our development. It gives us the big picture. So often, when international crises occur, we only see the problem of the moment. We have no idea how something that happened twenty years ago was the beginning of this current problem. Without that information, we can have only a shallow understanding of ? going on in the world.
研究历史给了我们更多的信息，而不仅仅是谁在什么时候死了，或者谁赢了哪场战争。它告诉我们人类在发展的不同时期是如何相互联系的。它给了我们大局。很多时候，当国际危机发生时，我们只看到当下的问题。我们不知道20年前发生的事情是如何成为当前问题的开始。没有这些信息，我们只能有一个肤浅的了解？历史和文学对学生们来说都是必要的科目，不仅仅是职业生涯。这些科目使学生为他们想要的生活方式做好准备
Both history and literature are necessary subjects for students to prepare for more than just careers. These subjects prepare students for the way they want to live their lives.