一、英译汉
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1、The fundamental function of education is to promote individuality, including individual personality and interpersonal skills. Its basic role, nonetheless, is to promote economic growth which is manifested in the following areas: providing a good background for stable and sustainable economic development; promoting the potential capability of the educated as workers; formulating the ideas, attitude and modes of behavior which accord to the modern economic life. The most direct function of education lies in its impact on the politics. Education exerts its far-reaching influence on the social and cultural development, not only as a means of cultural dissemination, but also as a means of preserving and continuing cultura ……此处隐藏1328个字…… Secondly, when in university, one also has to learn to communicate and cooperate with teachers and fellow students, during which one cultivates friendship and acquires the interpersonal skills, both of which are conductive to one's future career and success. A university is said to be a miniature society.
    From what I have mentioned above, it is obvious that we can acquire the qualifications and qualities essential to our future career and success through university education. There are innumerable successful people who attribute their achievements to a formal university education. It is no wonder that so many parents spare no efforts to send their children to colleges and universities.