小作文 - Does All Beauty Lie in the Eye of the Beholder?
前言
笔者最近在整理各种文件时，无意中又打开了本科时期的留下的文件夹，在其中，我看到了一些曾经写过的一些小文章，怀念的感觉不禁油然而生。虽然此时回望，这些小文章无不体现了本人拙劣的写作水平，某些文章更是处处透露出应付差事的目的，但是无论如何，他们也算是承载了我的小小一段青春时光，于是，与其让其尘封在硬盘里，最终烟消云散，不如将其记录于此，供未来的自己回看消遣。
话说在前，这些文字于本人也是某种程度的黑历史，因此对于懂得写作的人恐怕更是难以入眼，如果此文不幸被写作大佬看到，还请多多包涵，如果可以，尽量关闭页面，连看也别看的好……
言归正传，这一篇是本人在大三第一学期写的，是《英语语法与写作I》这门课的一次作业。
眼尖的同学可以看出，之前一篇我就我就发过大二写的《英语语法与写作II》的作业，那到了大三怎么又变成 I 了？答案也很简单，这门课大二挂了，大三重修了。
虽说挂了科，但也并非完全是一件坏事，正如上一篇中提到的，大二时教这门课的老师是个艺术家，本人也没啥艺术细胞，所以也没能力从艺术家身上学到东西。反倒是重修时，选了另一个老师，还算是收获颇丰。未来的托福0写作考试也是多亏了这门课才拿了还可以的分数，
这次作业的题目是探讨“美”这一概念，即“美”的标准是否因人而异，俗话说就是“情人眼里出西施”。
就本人来说，无疑是认可这个观点的。当然，写作文肯定不能说一句“我同意”或者”我不同意“就结束了的，甚至从写作的角度来讲，作为一篇议论文，观点的正确性、作者的真实态度并不重要，重要的是如何通过文字技巧，把选定好的观点传递出去。
那么对于这一议题，本人还是采用二分法来阐释，二分的方式是将美分为“外在美”和“内在美”，选定的论点是：对于外在美，美的标准的确因人而异；但是对于内在美，则是有普世价值的存在。
题目
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.
Does All Beauty Lie in the Eye of the Beholder?
‘Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder’. That is an old saying since the age of Plato’s, and its main idea is that the concept of beauty may vary from person to person. It has the similar meaning as ‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison’, and is often used to persuade people to respect each other’s tastes. To many extents, it’s pretty true, however, the statement isn’t completely flawless, because the word ‘beauty’ is too pervasive. Though I do believe that external beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, I think the internal beauty, which means the beauty of human’s souls, is the one thing that every human being can appreciate.
According to the dictionary, beauty is the quality presented in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind. People can either feel the external beauty by their five senses or feel the internal beauty by their minds.
In terms of the external beauty, since every person has different life experience, they might have established unique links between certain things and the concept of beauty, and thus they would have different judgments. Say, for an archeologist, those broken pieces of artifacts and fossils that have been found under the ground might contain tons of beauty, but those stones might just be junk in the eye of others. So, considering the fact that people all have different perspectives, it’s fair enough to say that external beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.
However, speaking of the internal beauty, things would be different. To judge the beauty of one soul, we have to adopt a totally different stick yard than that of the external beauty, and that stick yard would be the humanity. According to Confucius’s theory, the nature of humanity is kindness. That is to say: The soul of beauty is a soul of kindness. And we can find that internal beauty doesn’t change from person to person. It is easy to apprehend: A soul with kind nature would never be considered as ugly, and vice versa, a soul with foul nature would never be considered as beautiful.
In conclusion, external beauty can be different in different people’s eye, but internal beauty is always a beauty to everyone’s eyes. So, instead of saying ‘Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder’, I prefer to say: ‘External beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, whereas internal beauty remains itself regardless of any beholder’