這篇值得仿寫的地方不是特別多

1. He is delving into matters we all recognise because they are common to humanity.

Delve into = explore，可用在很多領(lǐng)域，比如太空探索

Governments around the world have spent a huge amount of money delving into the space.

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2. In this book about the exploration of the earth’s surface, I have confined myself to those whose travels were real and who also aimed at more than personal discovery.

However, this is to disregard the rolethe human mind has in conveying remote places;

Confine oneself to = limit/restrict oneself to，也可用在很多領(lǐng)域，比如環(huán)保

We should stop confining ourselves to victims of big corporates’ unethical behaviors, since it is to disregard our role as influential consumers who can encourage these businesses to make a change.

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3. They each settheir own particular criteria; the common factor in their approach being that they all had, unlike many of us who simply enjoy travel or discovering new things, both a very definite objective from the outset and also a desire to record their findings.

From the outset = from the beginning，接上一句的環(huán)保例子

Customers need to set their criteria about what a company can do or cannot do regarding environmental protection and take actions to defer or motivate its certain practices. Then after a while, when this company considers implementing new business plans, it would take ecosystem preservation into account from the outset.

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4. We think back to a golden age, as if exploration peaked somehow in the 19th century一as if the process of discovery is now on the decline, though the truth is that…

可用于小作文peak = reach the peak，be on the decline = decline

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