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名校历年作文范文 翻译硕士（MTI）备考系列 新东方在线 [ ]考研翻译硕士（MTI）全程辅导 名校历年作文范文 第一章 多段式作文 北大作文 Writing. (50 points) 题目： The unexamined life is not worth living An Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living The unexamined Life is not worth living. Socrates said when he was tried for heresy and sedition for encouraging his students to ask tough questions about themselves and society. Upon examining his life and situation, he chose to die for dignity rather than live out the rest of life in disgrace and humiliation. Socrates was seeking truth to live a life of high station. According to him, the unexamined existence i. s of n. o discipline, no freedom and void of dignity. To begin with, the unexamined life is a life without discipline. Put it another way, a life that has not been subjected to certain codes and purposes is doomed to moral looseness, human alienation mad insatiable indulgence. It is such life style that, to many of us, leads to a lack of sense of justice or direction of values. A case in point is Dorian Gray in Oscar Wildes novel, The Portrait of Darian Gray Dorian Gray is a young man who takes advantages of his beauty and ruins maw pure women. It is his unexamined life and loose lifestyle that lead to his hurt of others and his own final downfall. Contrariwise, the examined life can provide one with chance for a more thorough and better understanding of life and the world——an understanding which can bring us maximum, freedom in thought. Leading an examined life, Emerson is believed by many to understand the world better even than most people do today. His words To be great is to be misunderstood. show that an independent individual needs to trust himself even if people around doubt and question his life. Few could Dive a life as sober and examined as Emerson did in that his realm of thought enjoys such a degr