【小站出品】2016年9月24日雅思G类写作大作文范文

Task：Does The development of computers & cellphones to translate language automatically have more advantages or disadvantages?

参考范文：

There has recently been a notable increase of the number of language pairs offered for automatic translation on mobile phones and computers. However, it appears to me that favorable as the instantaneous translation may seem, it is far from desirable.

Machine translation through computers and mobile phones is enormously convenient. This is especially the case when people travel abroad or pick up a foreign language. Using real time machine translation tools to translate wherever and whenever, travelers could make themselves understood or understand others in a foreign country. Additionally, learning a foreign language can be far easier and less expensive with this function. A case in point is that a majority of university students learn a language through mobiles and computers, both of which make those foreign language learners study flexibly outside the classroom in any place and in their own time. But unfortunately, this convenience can hardly be enjoyed under complex and complicated circumstance.

On the other hand, the linguistic and communicative quality of these automatic translations can barely be ensured and probably leads to misunderstanding. It is obvious that computer and mobile phones can only translate literally and the translation of idioms and slang language will be not reliable, especially in daily communication, literature and science translation. Accordingly, the exact meaning of a native speaker could be misunderstood, the prime of some masterpiece hardly appreciated and some facts easily distorted.

The lower quality of automatic translation hinders students’ intelligence development to some extent. A foreign language is more often than not closely correlated with the unique culture and customs. In attempt to have a better command of a foreign language and gain a more comprehensive understanding of indigenous culture, students themselves have to focus on language learning itself and place emphasis on cultures and customs from which the language derives. This practice will only be experienced by learners so that when picking up a foreign language, they can develop their intelligence, stimulate their imagination and creativity and strengthen their confidence. In this case, computers and mobiles could help nothing but to make the matter even worse.

To conclude, this powerful function of computers and mobile phones should not be relied heavily on given the problems it will cause, even though it brings great convenience.

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