我的英文名著阅读课从本周末起将开始新的主题—英国最伟大的随笔作家之一William Hazlitt的著名人物点评系列随笔The Spirit of the Age的选讲。这些文章不仅文笔华丽流畅，更重要的是它们的内容极富思想内涵，对于人性的方方面面进行了深刻而犀利的剖析。我将从这本书中精挑细选出我认为其中最有趣，最可读，最值得学习的一些片段，进行语言与修辞方面的详细讲解，和思想与历史文化知识方面的发散拓展。通过这期课程，同学们不仅将获得语言能力的提升，还会在思考与分析社会问题的层面上得到一些启发，这些对于同学们写英文议论文都是非常有帮助的。欢迎感兴趣的朋友们私信我进行咨询～

我之前曾经写过一篇关于William Hazlitt的The Spirit of the Age这本书的介绍，希望了解这本书的朋友们可以点击下面的链接进行阅读～

让我受益匪浅的一本英文原著

除了每周末常规进行的英文经典名著阅读课之外，我还将在暑假开设包括莎士比亚戏剧选读在内的，几门面向不同英文水平的学习者的阅读课程～课程将分为三个等级，欢迎感兴趣的朋友们持续关注～

此外我之前已经讲完的主题的录播也打包出售，直播课和录播课的详情可以私信咨询我～除此之外也欢迎咨询我的SAT, IB English和GRE等留学考试课程~

电脑技术与职业生涯(雅思写作示范)

今天我写的是一道2025年四月份雅思考试的大作文题目，具体题目如下：

以下是我的文章正文：

The grand fabric of modern life is built largely upon a foundation of computers, and their fundamental importance is well reflected by the lucrative wages currently distributed to competent computer engineers.This has given many people the impression that computer skills are the most expeditious, if not the requisite, means tosecureasuccessful career, which mainly means a remunerative employment in the common acceptation of that term.It is exceedingly true that the ability to manage computers skilfully has been able to command good salaries, but it is also true that the ability to manage men skilfully could often command even better rewards; moreover, a computer worker will have a ready and cheap succedaneum in the shape of artificial intelligence in the near future, whereas a coordinator and manager of men would never be replaced by a machine. 

Computer skills have been, for some years, a good leverage for high salaries, and indeed the most accessible one forpeople of no exalted backgrounds. Modern computer engineers are more prized than their fellow labourers in other professions, because their labour could yield more profit, within a same span of time, to their employers. The new wave of industrial revolution that we are experiencing is built upon computers, and there is no question that with the dramatic expansion of the new industry, there has been earnest demand for computer experts,the comparative scarcity of whom has allowed them to bargain for better wages. At the zenith of this profession, a man would only need to prove his dexterity with computers, to procure a job of handsome payment; the want of a good college diploma, or a flowery letter of recommendation, would not obstruct him.

But there are other, far more effective ways to obtain career success.After all, computers areonly tools, though wonderfully potent ones,to advance the quality of human life;and computer experts are merely artisans, though artisans of no ordinary merit. Many are confounded or intimidated by the glitter of the prestige and affluence associated with their profession, but still they are no more than a better order of artisans, and in no society do artisans enjoy a monopoly of profitable employments.Operating a machine is almost always a less important task, even in manufacturing, than the manipulation and management of men. A man uses a machine to produce his allocated portion of the commodities, but it requires the strenuous efforts of those who command and co-ordinate a team of such men to make these separate productions useful; and without an effective troop of salespersons to create and enlarge a market for those commodities,all his tedious assiduity and ingenious invention would be in vain. A good manager or a successful salesman is usually more important to a company than its most dexterous artisans, even though these latter are computer experts, and he is rewarded with handsome pay accordingly; and to be a good manager or a successful salesman, one needs not be too erudite in the way of the computers. Computer expertise is never a necessary means to career success, even in a company of computer technologies.

What is more important, we are already on the verge of a new age when computer skills shall be devalued precipitately, and computer engineers substituted in batches by sophisticated artificial intelligence. The pride and prosperity of craftsmanship could not be long lasting, for if it be expensive as well as ubiquitous, there shall sooner or later appear technological advancements that could cheaply replace them; and as innovation in these days races forthat a dizzying pace, the duration of that superiority has been much more shortened. Whereas the textile factory workers of the nineteenth century, who are the equivalents of today’s computer engineers, did not lose their professional advantages until a century was past, their modern counterparts shall probably confront the declension and wreck of their careersonly two or three decades into the golden age of their profession.In contrast, the skills to communicate effectively with other people, to gain their confidence, and to persuade them to conduct as you wish them, shall never become obsolete. It is these skills that is the permanent and stable guarantee of a lucrative and successful career, in an age when there are great and even fundamental alterations in the technological landscape in every five or ten years.

In a word, computer skills have been a good qualification for a good employment, but they do not constitute the only means to procure it, and in the future they shall be less and less able to do so.