女儿的作文作业：这个世界的未来会变得越来越好，还是越来越坏？ ...

I believe the fate of the world isn’t as easily tipped as some cynics might proclaim, nor is it as stable as others say. It tilts and totters back and forth, and with each act of kindness and cruelty a little part of the balance teeters. An old saying tells us a person has an equal amount of happiness and sadness, cheeriness and stress, love and hate, in their lifetime. I believe this is true in the world as well. No act of kindness is wasted. No act of malice goes undetected. It all comes back around in a cycle, keeping the world balanced.

Comparing us, the modern humans, to an early homo sapien would be like comparing a dragonfly to a real dragon; we are completely different in everything but our names. However, for some creatures, the world hasn’t changed at all. Animals or people in remote places don’t receive as many transformations to their world as ours. Drastically different from early humans, today we live in masses, thinking and communicating as part of a large group, connected through the internet. Our very minds and thought processes have evolved, changing the way we think. However, perhaps in a thousand years, the world will have changed into something completely alien. When something changes for the better or worse, the judgment is completely relative. It depends on whom or what is considering the world.

There is no doubt the world is changing. However, I don’t think it is changing for only the better or the worse. In nature, when an imbalance forms, other events happen to even it out. I believe that’s how the world works. Change is never completely good, nor bad; there’s a little bit yang in every yin, a little bit of yin in every yang. Little by little, every cause meets its effect.

本人的翻译

我相信这个世界的命运并不像那些愤世嫉俗的人所声称的那样容易毁灭，也不会像另外一部分人说的那样太平无忧。 它前后摇摆，步履阑珊，在善良和野蛮中平衡前行。古人讲一个人在一生中的幸与不幸，快乐和悲伤，爱与恨是等量的。我相信这个世界也是这样。没有善良的举动会浪费掉，没有邪恶会不被识破。 这些都会反转轮回，使这个世界保持平衡。

比较我们现代人类和早期的智人，犹如比较蜻蜓和恐龙。除了英文名字，其他没有丝毫相似之处。然而对某些生物来说，这个世界几乎没有任何变化。动物或者人类在早期并没有像我们现在这样有很大的变异，和早期人类不同，今天我们生活在一个拥挤不堪，用互联网思考和交流的巨大群体里。我们现在的每一个想法和认识过程都已经进化，它改变着我们思考的方式。然而在未来一千年里，这个世界也许会变成一个完全由外星人主宰的世界。随着这种改变，或好或坏，我们的判断也会相对不同，它完全取决于谁或者什么来考虑这个世界。

这个世界在变化是毫无疑问的，但我不认为它变得不是好就是坏。在自然界，当一个失衡出现时，另外一个事件会发生来平衡这个失衡。 我相信这是这个世界如何工作的。变化永远不会是完全的好或者坏，每一个阴里，都有一点点阳，每一个阳里，都有一点点阴，点点滴滴，所有的结果都有它的原因。