10月15日雅思大作文真题参考范文 | 应该与外星生命联系吗？

Our imagination about beings on other planets has never stopped and reached its climax in such movie series like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” in 1960s and 1970s. If other life forms do exist, an idea I strongly support, should we, as human beings on the Earth, try to reach out and communicate with them?

A lot of people do not like the idea of sending messages to aliens “out there”. According to their theory, trying to establish communication with other life forms is extremely expensive because it entails designing complex equipment and apparatus. This will consume tons of money, which should be spent solving more practical problems like medical care or education. More importantly, as these people would claim, once they receive our messages and know about our existence, the aliens may invade the Earth and eliminate us all, just like what they do in many movies and science fiction.

There are others who are very enthusiastic about reaching out for aliens on other planets. They are interested in how these different life forms survive and believe their more advanced technology may well help us human beings solve our existent problems. Having been living in the universe as the only intelligent being for too long, many people find it very attractive to reach their brothers and sisters from other planets. It is significant for another reason, too. As the Earth will surely die and disappear into the black hole as many scientists have speculated, we need to be known by our siblings on other planets so that when that day eventually does come, our future grand, grand children will not perish.

Personally, I do not think much of the “danger” theory. If the aliens are less developed than us, they cannot be a threat to us even if they want to; if they are more developed and civilised, the probability that we are killed by them is still lower. Once the xenophobic danger is removed, I believe most of us will welcome the idea of communicating with the intelligent forms outside the Earth, because they can provide us with the much desired companionship and may save us when the Earth expires.

Our imagination about beings on other planets has never stopped and reached its climax in such movie series like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” in 1960s and 1970s. If other life forms do exist, an idea I strongly support, should we, as human beings on the Earth, try to reach out and communicate with them? 

我们对外星人的想像从未停止过，在上世纪60、70年代类似《星球大战》的电影系列中达到高峰。如果其他生命形式的确存在（我支持这个观点），那么，我们作为地球上的人类，是否应该尝试走出去与他们沟通呢？

A lot of people do not like the idea of sending messages to aliens “out there”. According to their theory, trying to establish communication with other life forms is extremely expensive because it entails designing complex equipment and apparatus. This will consume tons of money, which should be spent solving more practical problems like medical care or education. More importantly, as these people would claim, once they receive our messages and know about our existence, the aliens may invade the Earth and eliminate us all, just like what they do in many movies and science fiction. 

很多人对给“远处”的外星人发信号这个想法不以为然。按照他们的说法，尝试与其他生命形式建立联系极其昂贵，因为需要设计复杂的设备和仪器。这会耗费成堆成堆的金钱，这些钱应该用来解决更为实际的问题，比如医疗和教育。更重要的是，这些人会认为，一旦外星人接收到我们的信息，知晓了我们的存在，就可能入侵地球，消灭我们，就如他们在很多电影和科幻小说中干的那样。

There are others who are very enthusiastic about reaching out for aliens on other planets. They are interested in how these different life forms survive and believe their more advanced technology may well help us human beings solve our existent problems. Having been living in the universe as the only intelligent being for too long, many people find it very attractive to reach their brothers and sisters from other planets. It is significant for another reason, too. As the Earth will surely die and disappear into the black hole as many scientists have speculated, we need to be known by our siblings on other planets so that when that day eventually does come, our future grand, grand children will not perish. 

也有很多人对走出去联系外星人非常有热情。他们很想知道这些不同的生命形式如何生存，相信他们更为发达的科技能够帮助人类解决现存的问题。作为的智能人，在这个宇宙生活得太久，很多人觉得找到外星球的兄弟姐妹非常有意义。这样做还有一个重要的理由。正如很多科学家猜想的那样，地球终将死去并消失在黑洞，因此我们需要外星兄弟姐妹了解我们，这样，当那一天终于来临时，我们未来孩子的孩子也不会消亡。

Personally, I do not think much of the “danger” theory. If the aliens are less developed than us, they cannot be a threat to us even if they want to; if they are more developed and civilised, the probability that we are killed by them is still lower. Once the xenophobic danger is removed, I believe most of us will welcome the idea of communicating with the intelligent forms outside the Earth, because they can provide us with the much desired companionship and may save us when the Earth expires.

就个人而言，我不太赞同“危险”论。如果外星人不及我们先进，那他们即使想威胁我们也不可能；如果他们比我们更先进，更文明，那我们被他们消灭的几率就更低。一旦没有了这种仇外的危险论，我相信绝大多数人都欢迎与地球外的智能生命沟通，因为他们可以给我们提供非常必要的陪伴，还可能在地球灭亡的时候拯救我们。