专业英语四级模拟训练参考作文2
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lucky numbers bring no good luck[cs]
many people believe that some numbers are lucky numbers and some are bad n umbers. they claim that lucky numbers can bring good luck while bad numbers can bring disasters. that is why we can see the number 8 on most price tags in our c ountry. some people pay much more money for their telephone numbers or car plate numbers with an 8 or 18 in them. do the socalled lucky numbers bring good luc k？ actually numbers have nothing to do with luck. people believe 8 is lucky n umber only because the sound of eight happens to be identical to that of that wo rd fo r “make a fortune” in cantonese. this very coincidence may not exist in other la nguages. but similar coincidences do occur in different languages. words in natu re are only arbitrary symbols used for communication. for the very same referent
whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.凡是值得做的事就值得做好。
or idea， different languages may use different sounds. shakespeare said， “if w e call a rose by any other name， it would smell sweet as well.” this means that t here is no intrinsic connection between sound and sense. in our culture， on cert ain occasions， even numbers symbolize auspice while odd numbers are somehow asso ciated with the opposite.in a word， numbers are only numbers that stand for nothing but quantity. t herefore， it is unreasonable to believe in lucky numbers.
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