Essay two

思考题

请你根据以下几点谈谈你对城镇化的看法;不得少于400字。

  • How would you characterize the experience of Jinghe, Nuan and Yaba growing up in China’s rural area? Their growth from a youth to full adulthood occurs during China’s transformation from an agrarian to an urban society. What remains connected or even unchanged, and what is discontinued and lost forever? 井河、暖和哑巴的成长史跟中国城镇化同步;在这两个平行的过程中,什么没有变,什么不复存在?
  • Jinhe and Nuan never get married and live in the city. What factors shape their personal decisions and choices? (暖和井河终于没有能成为夫妻,去大城市生活。他们俩的关系都受到了哪些因素的影响?是什么使他们在一起?又是什么让他们俩离开?)
  • How do you make of Nuan’s married life with the deaf-mute and Yaya? What do they gain and/or lose as they change? Which one of them is happy and why? 你怎么看暖的三口的生活?她嫁给哑巴你觉得明智吗?中国的改革开放给井河、暖、哑巴和丫丫带来的是什么,使她失去的又是什么?这三个人谁最幸福?为什么?
  • As far as Huo Jianqi the director is concerned, should the urbanization and market economy be viewed as social progress or cause of personal regret? 对导演霍建起来说,城镇化和自由的市场经济给农民带来的是社会进步,还是后悔和遗憾?

生词:

  • 思考题,sī kǎo tí,  essay questions
  • 城镇化,chéng zhèn huà,  urbanization
  • 夫妻,fū qī, husband and wife
  • 因素,yīn sù, causes, factors
  • 影响,yíng xiǎng, inpact or influence
  • ,jià, marry for women
  • 明智,míng zhì, wise
  • 改革开放,gaǐ gé kaī fàng, reform and opening
  • 农民,nóng mín, peasants
  • 市场经济,shì chǎng jin̄g jì; free market economy
  • 后悔,hòu huǐ, regrets
  • 遗憾,yí hàn, regrets