大學(xué)英語作文：Live and Die生存與毀滅

　　The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment.Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings,has been relatively slight.Only in the present century has one species--man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

　　地球上生命的歷史一直就是一部生物與其環(huán)境相互作用的歷史。在很大程度上，地球上動植物的形態(tài)以及習(xí)性都是由外部環(huán)境所塑造的?？紤]到地球上生命存在的整個(gè)時(shí)間，相反作用——即生命對其周圍環(huán)境的實(shí)際改變作用一卻相對很小。只有在當(dāng)前這個(gè)世紀(jì)才有一個(gè)物種——人類，獲得了強(qiáng)大的力量，改變了其所生存的世界的自然狀態(tài)。