英语翻译In the West,cartoons are used chiefly to make people lau

英语翻译
In the West,cartoons are used chiefly to make people laugh.The important feature of all these cartoons is the joke and the element of surprise it contained.Even though it is very funny,however,a good cartoon is always based on close observation of a particular feature of life and usually has a serious purpose.
Cartoons in the West have been associated with political and social matters for many years.Nowadays cartoons are often used to make short,sharp comments on politics and government as well as on a variety of social matters.In this way,the modern cartoon has become a very powerful force in influencing people in Europe and the United states.
Unlike most American and European cartoons,however,many Chinese cartoon drawings in the past have also attempted to educate people,especially those who could not read and write.Such cartoons about the lives and sayings of great men in china long ago have proved extremely useful in bringing education to illiterate and
semi-literate people throughout China.Confucius(孔子),Mencius(孟子)and Lao Zi have all appeared in very interesting stories presented in the form of cartoons.The cartoons themselves have thus served to illustrate the teaching of the Chinese sages(圣人) in an attractive way.
In this sense,many Chinese cartoons are different from Westem cartoons in so far as they do not depend chiefly on telling jokes.Often there is nothing to laugh at when you see Chinese cartoons.This is not their primary aim.In addition to commenting on serious political and social matters.Chinese cartoons have aimed at spreading traditional Chinese thought and culture as widely as possible among the people.

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在西方,漫画主要用来逗人们开怀大笑.它们最主要的特征就是笑料以及出人意表.尽管如此,一个好的漫画总是以对生活中某一特定方面的密切观察为基础,并且其主题通常是严肃的.
在西方,漫画与政治和社会事件之间的联系由来已久.今天,人们经常用漫画对政治和政府以及各种社会事件进行短小深刻的评论.正因为如此,现代漫画在欧洲和美国逐渐成为一种影响力非常强大的工具.
然而在中国与欧洲和美国不同,中国漫画过去也常常被用作教育工具,尤其是针对那些不识字的人.事实证明,这些关于生活以及名人名言的漫画,在给全国各地那些不识字或半文盲的人灌输知识方面极为有用.孔子、孟子、老子都曾出现在非常有趣的漫画故事中.在这里,漫画本身的作用就是以一种生动有趣的方式传播圣人之教.
从这一方面来说,许多中国漫画与西方漫画差别非常之大,因为它们不是靠逗笑作为主要手段.你在看中国漫画时通常不会被逗笑,因为逗乐不是它们的主要目的.中国漫画除了对严肃的政治和社会问题加以评说外,还以尽可能广泛地传播中国的传统思想文化为己任.