Economist 寫今天的雅思大作文

今天的雅思大作文‍‍

20230429 Some people predict that technological development can make people in the 21st century have much more free time. To what extent do you think the prediction is true?

一個(ge) 老生常談的話題，加上疫情以來的在家辦公導致的現代社會(hui) 對於(yu) 工作時長的討論，所以外刊裏麵類似的文章還是蠻多了‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

選了 Economist 的相關(guan) 文章，可以學習(xi) 下結構，思路和表達‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

來自於(yu) Economist 的一個(ge) 開頭‍‍‍

THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice. Economic progress and technological advances had already shrunk working hours considerably by his day, and there was no reason to believe this trend would not continue. Whizzy cars and ever more time-saving tools and appliances guaranteed more speed and less drudgery in all parts of life. Social psychologists began to fret: whatever would people do with all their free time?

這個(ge) 開頭非常適合今天的考題，甚至還點題了題目裏的prediction這個(ge) 詞； 也說到了題目裏的technological ‍‍‍‍development‍‍‍‍‍‍

也可以積累下每次聊到類似話題一定會(hui) 提及的‍Keynes的預言：

“Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice.

當然從(cong) 標題也可以看出來，Economist 不認同人們(men) 會(hui) 有更多free time 的觀點，所以文章的第二段馬上給出了作者的觀點是：現代人越來越忙了。‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This has not turned out to be one of the world’s more pressing problems. Everybody, everywhere seems to be busy. In the corporate world, a “perennial time-scarcity problem” afflicts executives all over the globe, and the matter has only grown more acute in recent years, say analysts at McKinsey, a consultancy firm. These feelings are especially profound among working parents. As for all those time-saving gizmos, many people grumble that these bits of wizardry chew up far too much of their days, whether they are mouldering in traffic, navigating robotic voice-messaging systems or scything away at e-mail—sometimes all at once.

上麵文章的綠色部分是值得積累下的語言；‍‍‍‍‍‍

粉色是值得學習(xi) 的結構