會議要簡短
【內容提示】
人們都討厭並反對冗長的講話和拖沓的會議。但是，在學校、在行政機關、在其他一些事業單位等，開會是經常性的，而且一開就是一天，半天，至少也有一兩個鍾頭。有些領導一講話就拖泥帶水，總要拖好長時間。請你結合自己的所見所聞和親身體會對這一問題發表看法，把論點集中在簡短會議、珍惜時間上。要求寫一篇歸納推理的議論文。
以下詞語供參考：
1.Spartus n.斯巴達人 2.Laconia n.拉哥尼亞 3.Lacons n.拉哥(尼亞)人 4.tycoon n.企業巨頭 5.laconic a.簡潔的;簡短的
【作文示範】
A Laconic Answer to Our Meetings
I heard that in ancient Greece there lived a people called Spartus. The Spartus were famous for their bravery and simple life. As they lived in Laconia, they were also called Lacons. The Lacons had a lot of strange rules. One of them was that they should speak briefly and never use more words than needed.
This story made me think of a junior middle school classmate of mine. Once he told me that their Leagus secretary often put them to the trouble of long meetings, at which she would made long, long speeches, all empty words. Everybody suffered. Such meetings achieve little and waste precious time. But she herself did not realize it. If anyone dared to prevent her from speaking or get in some words to cut her short, she would get angry and criticize him severely.①
My friend said regretfully②, “I would rather be regarded as a bad student. Only in this way could I make free use of my precious time.”Such a remark sounds discouraging. But such things not only happen in my friend"s school, but also in many offices and units. Everyone must always bear in mind③that time is money, time means life. Today, if one still enjoys a two-hour meeting over a cup of tea and a cigarette, he is wasting his life, and the lives of others as well.
In fact people had taken measures to cut the meetings short before. A Japanese tycoon once suggested that his officials keep standing during the meetings. It was reported as “getting rid of chairs”. In the United States, there was once a kind of two-minute meetings. And in my class the monitor once had us stand during a class meeting, just as the tycoon did. Although it seemed funny, it showed that we were all fed up with④ unnecessary long meetings.
Time is money; time is life. We must all treat time as a treasure, especially in our modern world.
Laconic meetings, or no meetings at all.
【詞語解釋】
①severely[si"vi+li]ad.嚴厲地;嚴肅地
②regretfully[ri"gretfuli] ad.懊悔地;遺憾地)
③bear in mind記住
④(be) fed up with(對……)極其厭倦
【寫法指要】
本文先舉出古代拉哥尼亞人的一條章程，要求人們說話要簡潔。因此，英語中有一個意為“簡潔的”形容詞就是“拉哥尼亞”的形容詞“laconic”。然後作者想到他的同學班會開得過長，幹部說話冗繁的事實。由此得出結論，人們要珍惜時間，愛惜生命，說短話開短會。接著又舉了日本企業巨頭，美國兩分鍾會議，他們班開短會的論據進行了論證。最後得出的論點是：開會要簡短或幹脆不開會。所以，我們說本文是歸納推理的議論文。