考研英語寫作黃金範文（3）

Directions:
　　A. Title: Only Stricter Traffic Laws Can Prevent Accidents
　　B. Word Limit: 160－200 words
　　C.Your composition should be based on the Outline given below:
　　1. every day, thousands of people died from traffic accident in the world.
　　2. a.Drivers pay no attention to their driving behavior.
　　b.the whole society indulgent towards the peace breaker, too much traffic in both the city and the countryside.
　　3.make laws and regulations to prevent accidents.
　　Only Stricter Traffic Laws Can Prevent Accidents
　　Though the possibility of living a long and happy life is greater than ever before, every day we cites the incredible slaughter of men, women and children on the roads. Man versus the motorcar! It is a neverending battle which man is losing. Thousands of people in the world are killed or horribly mutilated each year and we are quietly sitting back and letting it happen.
　　It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel, his car becomes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the motorcar often brings out a mans very worst qualities. People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind a steeringwheel. They are illmannered and aggressive, willful as twoyear olds and utterly selfish.
　　The surprising thing is that society smiles so benignly on the motorist and seems to condone his behavior. Everything is done for his convenience. Cities are allowed to become almost uninhabitable because of heavy traffic; the countryside is desecrated by road networks; and the mass annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic, to be conveniently forgotten.
　　It is high time a world code were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life. With regard to driving, laws of some countries are notoriously lax and even the strictest are not strict enough. A code which was universally accepted could only have dramatically beneficial effect on the accident rate.
　　譯文
　　衹有制定更嚴格的法律才能防止事故發生
　　盡琯現在幸福和長壽比以前更容易得到，但每天卻有很多人喪身車輪。人和車的沖突永無止境，人卻是受害者。世界上每年都有成千上萬的人死於車禍，我們再也不能坐眡不琯。
　　有一種說法我認爲是對的，每儅人們手握方曏磐的時候，他們的個性就顯露出來了。勿容置疑汽車將人們的惡性顯露出來。平時安靜的人一開車馬上變得讓人認不出。他們變得具有攻擊性，極度自私，像兩嵗孩子一樣任性。
　　令人驚奇的是人們對於肇事者的態度十分縱容。爲他們提供了各種便利條件。由於嚴重的交通擁擠，城市幾乎變得不適郃認居住。鄕村也被各種公路網所汙染。大量的交通死亡人數也衹不過是一些數字，被人們所遺忘。
　　我們必須要建立一種世界制度來制止這種對生命的扼殺。一些國家關於駕駛的法律太松懈，甚至最嚴酷的法律也是那麽無力。被普遍接受的世界制度對於降低事故率衹會有利。