大家好，我是AS-2高二14班的Frank吴雨潼。
作为一个不学无术、脑洞巨大、不爱说话、从不惹是生非的N好学生代表，我会习惯性的在某些独自发呆的时间里对某一随机主题展开深入地思考探究。这似乎导致我的思维很容易跑偏（是那种很正的跑偏）。
其实一开始我是想写一篇假期经历来着，结果后来因为种种原因变成了一篇脑洞记录不全，思维完全发散的议论文（本文逻辑可能稍显混乱，敬请见谅）。
不要求大家赞同我的观点。支持一键跳过。想认真阅读的好人们请忽视中文翻译（如同灾难一般……）。支持留言加评论，尽管我不见得会看见。
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Frank你是不是过于自谦了呢？就从你每次投稿都坚持写英文稿这一点来说，就要给你一个大写的赞！
一千个读者就有一千个哈姆雷特，下面是Frank带来的War （英文创作，中文翻译均出自他手），请各位小伙伴们自行品鉴吧。
War
--Frank AS2
Do you know what the word “war” means? In the dictionary, it says that war is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. That is pretty simple, isn't it? In my opinion, it represents conflicts caused by scramble for some resources and have been intensified to a certain scale to sacrifice the benefits of those innocent people. My understanding may not be overall, but I think it's reasonable. Actually, everybody has their own perspective towards war, and that makes it harder to generalize the whole concept. Anyway, war is a complex matter to understand.
什么是战争？如果按照字典上的说法，战争就是一种集体、集团、组织、民族、派别、国家、政府互相使用暴力、攻击、杀戮等行为，是敌对双方为了达到一定的政治、经济、领土的完整性等目的而进行的武装战斗。就我个人的观点，战争是为了争夺某些东西而引发的，是被激化到了一定规模，并开始伤害那些本没有参与到事件中的人的利益冲突。我的理解也许并不全面，但也不是没有道理。其实每个人对于“战争”这个概念的理解都不一样，这也不太好统一，而且就实际情况来说，战争相当复杂。
First, let us look at the evolution of war. Long long ago, when people were living together in tribes, wars began to happen between two or more tribes when they fought for one all-desired resource, like water, food or territory. At this time, the scale of the war was usually restricted because the number of people in a tribe was limited.
我们先来看一下战争的“进化史”。在我眼中，最早的战争（当然是在人类之间的）应该是部落战争（不是游戏），也就是两个及以上的部落为了争夺某些方面的权利，如猎物资源、水资源或领地而进行的战争。这类冲突往往不会有太大的规模，毕竟一个部落也就百八十人。
With the development of civilization, the scale of war began to expand. At the time that countries were formed, war became multiform: inside a country, there were mainly two types of war: war between the political parties and war between the social classes. The war between political parties occurred when two or more parties have different strategies of administrating a country and trying to take the full-control of the country. The later one was usually caused by the conflicts between two or more social classes, like producer class and ruling class.
随着文明的发展，国家形成，战争的规模和类别开始增加。首先，在一个国家内部，我会提到两种战争形式：帮派战争和阶级战争。帮派战争是两个或数个不同治国理念的帮派为争夺国家控制权而发动的战争；而阶级战争则是不同的阶级间的矛盾所导致的，如生产阶级和统治阶级。
Generally, the conflicts between the political parties are always concerned with the differences in concept and the competition for power, while between social classes are always about oppression and exploitation of one class to the others. If the scale of the war grows to an upper level, there will be war of nations. The war of nations is often caused by arguments between countries and scramble for benefits. These wars are always costly and catastrophic.
一般来说帮派战争中的矛盾基本是理念观点的不同，而阶级战争中的矛盾主要来源于一个阶级对另一个阶级的剥削和压迫。当战争的规格再上一档，就变成了规模巨大的国家之间的战争。引发国家战争的要素基本是政治冲突和利益争夺。这些战争往往代价高昂而且损失惨重。
Nowadays, people classify the whole purposes of war into these several kinds: asymmetric warfare, biological warfare, chemical warfare, civil war, conventional warfare, cyberwarfare, information warfare, nuclear warfare, total war, unconventional warfare and war of aggression.
现在，人们把战争分为以下几种：不对称战争，生物（基因）战争，化学战争，内战，常规战争，网络战争，信息战争，核战争，全面战争，非常规战争和侵略战争。
Now let's see what will happen during the war. The example been used here is WWI. This war lasted from 28th July 1914 to 11th November 1918, which was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, however the fact is the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance were arguing about how to carve up the world “reasonably”. The war has influenced up to 33 countries and more than 1.5 billion people. The two main belligerents had over 30 million injuries and deaths, as well as an enormous amount of economic gloom.
以一战为例，我们来看看战争会引发什么。这场战争从1914年7月28日全面爆发，直至1918年11月11日才结束。整场战争的导火索是奥匈帝国的斐迪南大公被一塞尔维亚青年刺杀，然而实际上却是“三国同盟”和“三国协约”为重新“合理地”瓜分世界而进行的战争。在这场战争中，先后有多达33个国家被卷入，15亿人口受到牵连。交战双方伤亡人数超过3000万，且经济损失巨大。
From my point of view, this warfare was violent, sanguinary, cruel and destructive. The main reason of why nowadays people are always trying to solve problems in a peaceful way is no one would like to reappear those horrible scenes again.
就我看来，这场战争是暴力、血腥、残酷和极具破坏性的。我想正是因为绝大部分人都不希望再现这样的场景，才会有如今人们都极力反战，主张尽可能和平解决矛盾的现状。
We are going to look at some drawbacks of war.
战争会给地球及地球上的所有生物带来灾难，下面简单总结几点由战争导致的后果:
1. It can worsen the relationships among people.
战争会导致人与人之间的关系恶化。
As we all know, in harmoniously developing society, people will be fulfilled with trust and tolerance unto their surrounding relationships,which bring virtuous cycle to the development of society. During the war, however, trust seems to become a luxury which can exists only in the dream, because every trust maycost your life. Suspicion and distrust can be seen very often.Consequently, the worse the relationships , thebigger scale of warfare , and vicious cycle occurs.
我们知道在一个和谐发展的社会中，人和人之间是充满信任并且相互包容的，这会给社会发展带来良性循环。然而在战争时期，信任似乎成了一种可望而不可及的奢侈品，因为任何的轻信都有可能会让你付出惨痛的代价。人与人之间的猜忌和互相不信任随处可见的，也因为这些不信任，人际关系持续恶化，这会进一步导致战事的升级以及规模的扩大，从而引发恶性循环。
2. A huge amount of resourceswill be wasted.
战争会导致人员伤亡。
The resources here mainly mean natural resources and money. A country will need many military supplies such as weapons, uniforms, medical equipment, food supply and articles of everyday life. The raw materials of all those are definitely needed to be bought by money. If a country cannot set up an effective economic system, while the natural environment is being seriously damaged, the present economy will be crushed.
这里的资源主要指自然资源和国家经济。战争时往往需要大量的军需物资,比如用于制造火炮的金属，制军服、医疗器械和日用品的原料以及食品消耗。因为这些资源都需要经济支持，如果一个国家在战争时期不能建立有效的经济体系，那就会面临金融危机，严重时整个国家的经济都会被压垮。
3. It can take a large number of human toll.
战争会导致资源浪费。
Except from the equipment and strategies, human resource is also amajor factor that can influence the trend of the war. The intense hostilities will cause the loss of armed forces as well as civilians. The loss in population directly induces the decrease in the efficiency of producing,the shortage of supplies,the confidence of the whole country and rate of resuscitation after the war as well as the ascending business of rear service groups.
除了装备和战略对战事影响巨大，人力资源也是影响战争走向的决定性因素。惨烈的战事往往会导致交战方兵力的严重损耗，同时也会造成无法估量的平民伤亡。人力的损耗则直接导致了生产能力降低，支援不足，医疗及后勤工作繁重，同时还会影响整个国家的信心和战后恢复的速度。
4. It will seriously undermine the environment.
战争会严重破坏自然环境。
The weapons used in the war will ruin the nature habitats of animals and plants both on the land and in the water, and a specious may become extinct if serious enough. Doubtlessly, recovering the surroundings after war is going to be a costly and time-taking process. The change of natural environment may cause some global problems such as global climate change, and the epidemic during the war may cause humans big troubles.
战争中用到的火炮、炸药等武器会大面积地摧毁陆地和海中的动植物栖息地，这有可能会直接导致某个物种的灭绝。恢复战后受损的自然环境会耗费大量的人力和物力，这一点毋庸置疑，而且自然环境的破坏可能会导致全球性的问题如气候变化。瘟疫和疾病往往会在医疗节奏跟不上时大范围扩散，造成严重后果。
Meanwhile, we shall see that war is not absolutely harmful, it also has a few number of advantages:
与此同时我们也要看到，战争并非绝对有害的，它也有为数不多的好处。
1. Although it is extreme, war is still an effective method to deal with a problem completely, and the influence can last quite a long time.
虽说很极端，但是战争的确是能较为彻底地解决纠纷的有效办法，而且它带来的影响能持续很长一段时间。
2. It can speed up the development of technology and society. This is actually a very significant point. When everyone dreams about final success, there is competition.
战争会加速科技的发展和社会的进步。这其实是非常重要的。当人人都开始幻想取得最终的胜利时，竞争就产生了。
The competition is about equipment and human resources. The main force of equipment competition is scientists and inventors all over the world. They create various kinds of new concepts and new technology. Although weapons are the main fields where those new things will be used, it will affect transportation, medical service, producing, use of energy resources and communication a lot. The way of progress by leaps and bounds can never be seen throughout the peaceful times.
这里的竞争被分成装备技术竞争和人力资源竞争两种。装备竞争的主力部队是各国的科学家、发明家们。他们研究创造出各种新技术、新理念和新科技。尽管武器装备是其最重要的应用领域，但对交通运输、医疗、生产、能源利用、通讯等方面也有重大影响，这种突飞猛进式的发展是和平年代不可能出现的。
3. It can strengthen people’s desire of peace.
战争能强化人捍卫和平的信念。
Warfare is usually very horrifying, that’s why it always been used as a reverse side teaching material. For those people who have already joined into a war before, they will try their best to make sure the tragedy is never going to happen for a second time.
战争通常都十分惨烈，正是因为这种惨烈，战争一直被用作是教育人民珍惜和平的反面教材。对于那些曾经参与战争后幸存的人来说，他们会竭尽全力避免悲剧重演。
In fact, the influences of war on technology development and culture integration are very important. Without the continuous stimulation of war till now, our civilization level may still remain at primitive, in the Bronze Age. We can easily find out from the history that, war plays such an indispensable role in open human’s mind and accelerate human’s development.
事实上，战争对科技发展和文化交融的影响也十分重要。如果没有从古至今接连不断发生战争的刺激，我们现在可能还处于原始社会或铁器时代。从历史中我们可以很容易地发现，战争在开拓人类思维和加速人类发展方面扮演了一个极其重要的角色。
At last, in my own opinion, we must see the potential benefits that war canbring to us, though it will affect the earth and everything on it seriously even devastatingly if accurately described . I do not advocate fighting, but we have to face it when we need to. All the things have both pros and cons like a rose has its thorns, we need to consider them critically to gain a better understanding.
最后，就我的个人观点而言，战争虽然会给人类和地球带来十分负面的影响，但我们不能忽视其可能带来的益处。我并不提倡打斗，但必要的时候我们一定得面对它。凡事都有两面性，多思考才能看得更全面。
