AA077 求提纲

77.

The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a popular science and technology magazine.

“It is a popular myth that consumers are really benefiting from advances in agricultural technology. Granted — consumers are, on the average, spending a decreasing proportion of their income on food. But consider that the demand for food does not rise in proportion with real income. As real income rises, therefore, consumers can be expected to spend a decreasing proportion of their income on food. Yet agricultural technology is credited with having made our lives better.”

77. 给一份通俗科学技术杂志的编辑的信：
一个流行的荒诞说法是消费者确实从农业技术的提高中获利。一般而言(granted)，获利被认为体现在消费者花在食物上的钱占他们收入的比例越来越小。但是，考虑到人们对食物的需求不会随着他们的收入的增长而增长。因此随着绝对收入的增加，消费者们就可以指望他们花在食物上的钱的比例会下降。而农业技术却据此被说成让我们的生活变得更好的原因。

如果要argue的话，应该是强行说农业技术是个好东西吧？？

请指教谢谢

我估计还是因为你看了那个中文提纲的问题，其实不难啊

1real income 可能因为通货膨胀等因素并没有上升

2相应的粮食份额也可能没有下降

3农业技术给我们带来的好处不只是经济方面的还有可以提供更环保更安全的食品

这篇个人觉得蛮难写的，自己对题目的理解也不是很充分，可写的点不是很多。

In this article the author asserts that agricultural technology does not make our lives better. To support this argument, the author reasoned that the benefit from the introduction of advanced agricultural technology is a myth, an idea or story that many people believe but which is not true. In addition, he further reasoned that the proportion of people’s earnings that spend on food dreases as the real income rises. As far as I concerned, this argument is unconvincing for several reasons as follows.

In the first place, the author assumes an imprudent assumption that the real income rises, which in reality is not obviously true. For example, real income may drease in line with the high inflation. As all the argument is relied on this assumption, the author is necessary to provide more detailed and concrete information that can show the correctness of this assumption. Only based on the proper assumption, can we judge and decide.

In the second place, while it may be the case that real income rises, the author’s conclusion is just relative about the economic sphere. That is to say, the author has ignored other sphere of people’s lives, ignorance that is unwise and open to discuss. Nowadays more and more food suppliers are interest in advanced technology not only because it can bring them economic benefit, but also it makes our environment less polluted. There is a good example in my hometown that using modified cotton seeds, farmrs here reduce the amount of pesticide, saving money and protecting the environment.

In sum, it highly questionable whether the real income raises, and the author lacks a comprehensive thinking about all spheres of this event. To strength his argument, it is necessay for the author to provide more sound information and make a more considerate investiagtion about other fields. Othisewise, people will not accept such a simple argument readily.

恩真正写的时候才发现我的提纲其实就是两点

补充如下：

1不能因为某些人的推理错误而否定一个结论的正确性

2真实收入可能并没有上升

3either-or choice只有一个因素使人们消费的农产品比例下降拉。其实可能是两个因素共同影响的结果。

real income 是指刨去了通涨因素的实际收入。

norminal income 才是没有处理的名义收入。

所以未必能用  2真实收入可能并没有上升 作为论点批判吧。