雅思写作大作文范文解析：人类应该尝试与外星人沟通吗？
10月13日雅思写作大作文考了这么一道题：
Some people believe there are intelligent life forms existing on other planets and it is better to send messages to them, but others think it is a bad idea because it is very dangerous to do this. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
简而言之，就是人类应该尝试与外星人沟通吗？
如果你是的话，你怎么入手？
以下是新航道雅思培训唐老师的手写范文，我们一起来看一下吧！
Our imagination about beings on other planets has never stopped and reached itsclimax in such movie series like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” in 1960s and 1970s. If other life forms do exist, an idea I strongly support, should we, as human beings on the Earth, try to reach out and communicate with them?
(1) 本段引出话题，然后重述题目问题：人们关于外星人的想像从未停止，但我们是否应该尝试和外星人沟通呢?(2) climax 高潮;顶点(3) reach out 伸出去;试图沟通。很多学校的学生会都设有一个“外联部”，最恰当的英文翻译就是 “reach out department”。
A lot of people do not like the idea of sending messages to aliens “out there”. According to their theory, trying to establish communication with other life forms is extremely expensive because it entails designing complex equipment and apparatus. This will consume tons of money, which should be spent solving more practical problems like medical care or education. More importantly, as these people would claim, once they receive our messages and know about our existence, the aliens may invade the Earth and eliminate us all, just like what they do in many movies and science fiction.
(1) 本段讨论种观点，即反对与外星人沟通。理由就是沟通需要成本，同时还很危险。(2) 本作文词汇方面的一大难题就是如何用不同的词来替换“外星人”。唐老师这里使用了如下几个替换词：beings on other planets; other life forms; aliens out there; intelligent beings outside the Earth; our sisters and brothers; our siblings，为了避免重复，唐老师真的拼啦!(3) 本段唐老师还使用了一些比较大的词汇。比如：establish 建立;entail 使......成为必要;apparatus 设备;tons of money (= lots of money) 成堆的钱;invade 入侵;eliminate (=kill) 消灭
There are others who are very enthusiastic about reaching out for aliens on other planets. They are interested in how these different life forms survive and believe their more advanced technology may well help us human beings solve our existent problems. Having been living in the universe as the only intelligent being for too long, many people find it very attractive to reach their brothers and sisters from other planets. It is significant for another reason, too. As the Earth will surely die and disappear into the black hole as many scientists have speculated, we need to be known by our siblings on other planets so that when that day eventually does come, our future grand, grand children will notperish.
(1) 本段讨论相反的观点，即赞同与外星人沟通。理由包括：学习外星人的科技;找到伴侣;地球毁灭时外星人可以挽救人类。不知道本专栏读者现在是否已经知道，这三个点是如何构想出来的?如果你已经知道，那么恭喜你，请你继续关注本专栏，看唐老师在以后的范文中如何反复演练这种思维模式，直到你也完全掌握;如果你到现在都还不知道，那么也恭喜你，请你回读本专栏，然后你就明白了：哦，原来雅思写作思维是这个样子的!以前我都白学了!这种顿悟正是唐老师希望通过开辟本专栏带给你们的。(2) be enthusiastic about... 对......很热心(3) existent (= existing) 现有的;现存的 (来自exist 一词)(4) black hole 黑洞 (地球会消失到太阳的黑洞，这个也是唐老师从电视上看到的，这个顺便用出来，给作文增加一些信息量，同时使作文显得更加有个性化，因为唐老师相信，在这篇作文中，能够使用black hole的，可能不足1/1000，这会给阅卷人一种新颖之感。背模板的同学请记住了：当你的作文满篇都是陈词滥调，谁愿意读啊?不要那么折磨阅卷人吧!你折磨他，他就给个低分折磨你!)(5) speculate 猜测，猜想(6) siblings 兄弟姐妹的总称(兄弟brothers, 姐妹 sisters, 兄弟姐妹 sisters and brother, siblings=sis+bro+ling)(7) eventually (=finally; in the long run) 最终;终于(8) perish (=die) 消亡;死亡
Personally, I do not think much of the “danger” theory. If the aliens are less developed than us, they cannot be a threat to us even if they want to; if they are more developed and civilised, the probability that we are killed by them is still lower. Once thexenophobic danger is removed, I believe most of us will welcome the idea of communicating with the intelligent forms outside the Earth, because they can provide us with the much desired companionship and may save us when the Earth expires.
(1) 本段写自己的观点。首先批驳“危险说”(danger theory)：不厉害的外星人咱不怕，厉害的外星人文明程度高，一般也不会杀戮，因此，怕什么呢?更兼认识外星人有那么多好处，当然要想办法与外星人联系了。(2) do not think much of something 不太赞同......;不太喜欢......(3) probability 概率;可能性(4) xenophobic 仇外的，排外的(唐老师在这里使用了这个大词，xenophobic danger也是创造性使用语言的一个范例，也就是说，认为外星人会给我们带来危险其实是一种仇外的表现，因此这个danger就是xenophobic danger。)(5) provide us with companionship 给我们提供陪伴(6) expire 死亡;过期(相当于die, perish，注意唐老师在本文中光是“死亡”就换用了三个词汇!)
