雅思大作文：科技发展方便人们交流的同时，是否破坏了传统文化

Modern technology is changing our world. This has advantages such as bringing people closer together through communication. It also has disadvantages such as destroying the differences between cultures.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Modern technology with its advantages and disadvantages has changed today’s world enormously. Communication allows people all over the world to stay in contact with each other. For instance, I can easily exchange e-mails with a good friend of mine who recently had to move back to her mother country, Malaysia. Furthermore, if I have to make a really important decision or something is bothering me, I simply have to press the buttons on my mobile phone in order to ask my parents or a good friend for advice.

现代技术以其优势和劣势极大地改变了当今世界。交流让世界各地的人保持联系。例如，我可以很容易地与我的一个好朋友交换电子邮件，她最近不得不搬回她的祖国马来西亚。此外，如果我必须做出一个非常重要的决定或有什么事情困扰我，我只需按下我的*按钮，以征求我的父母或好朋友的意见。

Additionally, technology remarkably contributes towards making everyday procedures more convenient as well as helping to tran*it messages rapidly. For example, an appointment that cannot be met due to an unexpected incident can quickly be cancelled by writing a text message or, in terms of business, employees can send an e-mail cancelling or postponing a meeting which will be received within seconds by their business partners.

此外，技术显著有助于使日常程序更方便，并有助于迅速传递信息。例如，由于意外事件而无法赴约的约会可以通过发短信迅速取消，或者，就业务而言，员工可以发送电子邮件取消或推迟会议，会议将在几秒钟内由业务伙伴收到。

While improvements in technology are, to a large extent, helpful, they do have a disadvantageous side to them. The most significant disadvantage is the westernisation of traditional cultures, which we can see in the growing number of fast food outlets for example. We can also see this in the way that foreign words are being incorporated into local languages.

虽然技术的改进在很大程度上是有益的，但它们确实对它们不利。最明显的缺点是传统文化的西方化，我们可以看到越来越多的快餐店。我们还可以从外来词融入当地语言的方式中看出这一点。

On the whole, I agree to a great extent that technology is bringing people closer together and this can only be a good thing, but the disadvantage is that people may take ideas from other cultures and forget their own traditions.

总的来说，我在很大程度上同意技术使人们更紧密地联系在一起，这只能是一件好事，但缺点是人们可能会从其他文化中吸取思想，忘记自己的传统。

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