Topic: Some people think music plays an important role in society. Others think it is simply a form of entertainment. Discuss both sides of this argument and give your opinion.

破题：有人认为音乐对于社会很重要。也有人认为音是用来娱乐罢了。
工作：Writing Task 2--讨论两种不同观点。提出你个人的看法。

[起]
1. To think that music is simply a form of entertainment is reason enough to enjoy the magic power of sound, even though the importance of music in society may go beyond that.
光是承认音乐只是娱乐的一种形式，这就算已经是有充足的理由来证明声音的奇妙威力，何需再争论是佛音乐对于社会还有其他性质的重要性。

2. One thing is sure: there should be no argument about noise which is the opposite of silence or sound.
千真万确：从来没有人争论噪音的问题，而噪音正是安静或音乐的相反。

3. In fact, after silence what comes nearest to express the inexpressible is music for its magic qualities of truth and beauty. 事实上，如果想要表达那种表达不出来的事情，除了沉默之外，也只有音乐才最办得到，那是因为音乐具有真与美的特质。

[承]
1. Being embodied in truth, music is the language of truth, the universal language. 内涵真理，所以音乐是带真理的语言，也是唯一的世界语言。

2. Regardless of what languages are spoken in any culture, music is an essential part of social life, no matter modern or primitive. 不管任何文化，无论说什么语言，音乐是社会生活中必是重要的一环，并不在乎此社会是现代或原始。

3. It is easy to imagine that words can lie but music does not. 不难想象，一般言语可能耍诈，但是音乐绝对无欺诈之事。

4. Ever so often music begins when words leave off. 经常地，言语词不达意时，音乐继之而起。

5. Besides, the truth of great music sticks to memory, penetrating the ear with facility and parting the memory with difficulty. 不仅如此，内存真理的伟大音乐作品总让人永志不忘，让人不觉地听入耳里而久久不离。

6. Probably that is why a good song can outlive all sermons. 这大致可以解释为什么在记忆中，一手好歌胜过所有的说教。

7. Interestingly enough, at its best the truth of music can prevail as a higher revelation than wisdom since people do not need any brain to appreciate the magic sound. 特别有趣的是，如果成功的表达音乐中的真理，这还要超越智慧的表现，因为谁都无需大脑来欣赏声音的奇妙。

8. In short, music is true to life. 简而言之，音乐是忠实于人生。

[转]
1. Music is beauty much as painting in the sense that musicians paint their pictures on silence as does a master painter on canvas. 音乐之美可比美绘画，音乐家能画图在沉默中，如同伟大的画家在帆布上作画。

2. Because of its magic beauty, the sound of music is heart's delight, a joy forever. 音乐之声，尽其奇妙，令人心旷神怡，而久久陶醉在喜悦中。

3. No other medium is like music in demonstrating that kind of beauty which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. 音乐比任何其他媒介更能表达那种美，好像说不上来却又似在沉静中不能保持沉默。

4. At this point, it is so much akin to love that there are more love songs than anything else. 就此而言，音乐与爱情最为向近，所以人间的情歌比什么歌都多。

5. It may be that love is beautiful with all its foolishness. 也许，情爱之事虽不乏愚蠢，却是美不堪言。

6. As such, anything too stupid and yet too beautiful to be spoken is sung. 难怪，如果一件事既美丽又荒唐，简直说不出来的时刻 ，也只好用唱了。

7. In the words of William Shakespeare: "If music be the food of love, play on." 套用莎士比亚一句话：“如果音乐是爱情的食物，那么不要停。”

[合]
1. Whatever the argument, it makes sense believing that truth is beauty and beauty is truth, and that music is both. 何须争论道理，反正真就是美，美就是真，音乐则是又真又美。

2. People listen to music at different times for different reasons or for no other obvious reason than considering it as simply a form of entertainment. 人人都听音乐，也许时候不同，或道理不同，或没有别的道理，只不过把音乐当做娱乐的一种形式而已。

3. It is therefore safe to conclude that what other reason can be more practical to listen to music than saying that music is the best means people can have of digesting time? 话说到此，最安全的结论应该是说，如果要解释为何人人听音乐，难道有比用音乐来消磨时间的理由更切实际呢？