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.

破題：有人認為音樂對于社會很重要。也有人認為音是用來娛樂罷了。
工作：Writing Task 2--討論兩種不同觀點。提出你個人的看法。

[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.
光是承認音樂只是娛樂的一種形式，這就算已經是有充足的理由來證明聲音的奇妙威力，何需再爭論是佛音樂對于社會還有其他性質的重要性。

2. One thing is sure: there should be no argument about noise which is the opposite of silence or sound.
千真萬確：從來沒有人爭論噪音的問題，而噪音正是安靜或音樂的相反。

3. In fact, after silence what comes nearest to express the inexpressible is music for its magic qualities of truth and beauty. 事實上，如果想要表達那種表達不出來的事情，除了沉默之外，也只有音樂才最辦得到，那是因為音樂具有真與美的特質。

[承]
1. Being embodied in truth, music is the language of truth, the universal language. 內涵真理，所以音樂是帶真理的語言，也是唯一的世界語言。

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，無論說什么語言，音樂是社會生活中必是重要的一環，并不在乎此社會是現代或原始。

3. It is easy to imagine that words can lie but music does not. 不難想象，一般言語可能耍詐，但是音樂絕對無欺詐之事。

4. Ever so often music begins when words leave off. 經常地，言語詞不達意時，音樂繼之而起。

5. Besides, the truth of great music sticks to memory, penetrating the ear with facility and parting the memory with difficulty. 不僅如此，內存真理的偉大音樂作品總讓人永志不忘，讓人不覺地聽入耳里而久久不離。

6. Probably that is why a good song can outlive all sermons. 這大致可以解釋為什么在記憶中，一手好歌勝過所有的說教。

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. 特別有趣的是，如果成功的表達音樂中的真理，這還要超越智慧的表現，因為誰都無需大腦來欣賞聲音的奇妙。

8. In short, music is true to life. 簡而言之，音樂是忠實于人生。

[轉]
1. Music is beauty much as painting in the sense that musicians paint their pictures on silence as does a master painter on canvas. 音樂之美可比美繪畫，音樂家能畫圖在沉默中，如同偉大的畫家在帆布上作畫。

2. Because of its magic beauty, the sound of music is heart's delight, a joy forever. 音樂之聲，盡其奇妙，令人心曠神怡，而久久陶醉在喜悅中。

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. 音樂比任何其他媒介更能表達那種美，好像說不上來卻又似在沉靜中不能保持沉默。

4. At this point, it is so much akin to love that there are more love songs than anything else. 就此而言，音樂與愛情最為向近，所以人間的情歌比什么歌都多。

5. It may be that love is beautiful with all its foolishness. 也許，情愛之事雖不乏愚蠢，卻是美不堪言。

6. As such, anything too stupid and yet too beautiful to be spoken is sung. 難怪，如果一件事既美麗又荒唐，簡直說不出來的時刻 ，也只好用唱了。

7. In the words of William Shakespeare: "If music be the food of love, play on." 套用莎士比亞一句話：“如果音樂是愛情的食物，那么不要停?！?BR>
[合]
1. Whatever the argument, it makes sense believing that truth is beauty and beauty is truth, and that music is both. 何須爭論道理，反正真就是美，美就是真，音樂則是又真又美。

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. 人人都聽音樂，也許時候不同，或道理不同，或沒有別的道理，只不過把音樂當做娛樂的一種形式而已。

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? 話說到此，最安全的結論應該是說，如果要解釋為何人人聽音樂，難道有比用音樂來消磨時間的理由更切實際呢？