131. “We can learn more about a society by observing how its people spend their leisure time than by observing them at work.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
“我们可以通过观察一个社会的人们如何打发他们的休闲时间而非观察他们的工作来更多的了解这个社会。”
1.       1What people do at work indicates the level of the society's civilizition including the how developed the productivity is, how efficient a society it is, and so on so forth¹.
2.       2What people do to spend their leisure time reflect the society's civilzition from anthoer perspective. From the literacy of that society we can interpret the citizens' spirit wolrd; from the sports they do we can tell the conditions of their bodies, even from the pure entertainment activities of a society, we can also get some information such as what are the in-things of the society.
3.       3The author's assertion which allege² that we can know better of a society from what people do to spend leisure time than from what people do at work is imprudent and groundless. It is obvious that the author overestimate³ the importance of the understanding of what do people do at work in the comprehensive interpretation⁴ of a society.
 
1.      人们业余生活的方式，可以很大程度地反映一个社会：a, 可以反映人们的生活态度。 一种更加积极乐观的心态，会使人们更加活跃地energetically participate in various kinds of activities after work。反之，则不同。b, 具体业余生活的种类，可以帮助人们了解社会的偏好preference，比如健身，体现了对健康的关注；比如文学，可以了解社会的精神丰富程度。c, 最后，与谁一起度过业余生活，更可以反映整个社会人与人之间的亲密程度。to which degree are people correlated with each other.
2.      但是，也不能忽视工作对社会的反映作用。首先，工作占用最大the time that people spend on work amounts to the greatest fraction of total life. 在工作中表现出来的特点，是人们生活的重要部分。第二，工作的状态可以反映出一个社会的生产力水平，重视效率的程度。第三，工作的种类可以反映社会对于不同product and service的demand。从另一个角度反映社会的价值取向。reflect the values of the community from a different sight.
3.       这两个不能分开，要合理地结合在一起，才能understand one community more accurately⁵ and comprehensively.

View1: leisure time represent the society culture changes, vacation and holiday for different nations.
Evidence: In china, popular songs that express the emotions of lovers as well as pubs and clubs were strictly⁶ forbidden until 1980s, the time that china began its reformation and opening.
View2: leisure time is tied to the economic root of the society.
Evidence: once viewed as noble exercise, golf has become more and more commonplace and available for more Chinese people.
International tour/ travel abroad
View3: work does not vary too much, but how to spend the leisure time change greatly from country to country.