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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall
be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.
[参考译文] 美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的，在这种经济中，消费者很大程度上通过在
市场 上为 那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with
the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their
incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce
it.
[参考译文] 因此，在美国的经济体系中，个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最大化
其收 入效 用的欲望相结合，一起决定了什么 应该被制造，以及资源如何被用来制造它们。
3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers,
which in turn will lower the price and permit
more consumers to buy the product.
[参考译文] 另一方面，如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降，那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商
能提供的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多 的消 费者购买产品。
4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the
right to determine the price of a
product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
[参考译文] 在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包含对生产资源的所有权， 也指其他一些特定的权利，
如确定一个产品价格和与另一个私人个体(经济单 位) 自由签定合同的权利。
5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to
be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns.
[参考译文] 同时这些计算机记录下哪些时间是最忙的，哪些员工工作效率最 高，这样就能相应地做出人
员人事安排。而且它们(计算机)也能为促销活动找 到那些拥有优先权的顾客。
6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more
efficient services to consumers
through the
use of computers.
[参考译文] 不计其数的其他商业企业，从剧院到杂志出版商，从公用燃气电 力设施到牛奶处理厂，都
通过计算机的使用给消费者带来更好、更有效率的 服务。
7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their
education must be adapted to those differences.
[参考译文] 残疾儿童在许多关键方面都与其同龄人不同。为了让这些孩子发展其全部的成人后的潜能，
他们的教育必须适应这些不同。
8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all
citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully2 develop their capabilities3.
[参考译文] 在过去的30年中，公共教育中显示的对残疾儿童的巨大关注表明了我们社会中的一种中强烈的
情绪，那就是所有的公民，不管其情况有多 特殊，都应享有充分发展其能力的机会。
9. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby4 establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to
provide for export at competitive prices.
[参考译文] 它(广告)能够直接帮助货物以比较合理的价格被迅速分销出去，因此可以(使公司)建立一个坚固的国
内市场，同时也使以具有竞争力的价格 提供出口变得可能。
10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising5, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live
up to the promise of his advertisements.
[参考译文] 除去议会有27件法案来规范广告的条件，没有任何一个正式的广 告商敢于推销一种商
品却不能兑现其在广告中的承诺。
11. If its message were confined merely to information and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the
choice of the color of a shirt is subtly
persuasive-advertising wound be so boring that no one wound pay any attention.
[参考译文] 如果其信息只被局限于告知一一就广告而言，如果这不是完全不 可能达到的，也是非
常难做的，因为即便是一个诸如衬衫的颜色的选择这样 的细节都会具有微妙的说 服意味，
那么广告就会如此地乏味以至于没有人 会关注它。
12. The workers who gets a promotion1, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have
measurable results to show for there efforts.
[参考译文] 得到了升迁的工人们，成绩进步的学生，学会了一门新语言的外 国人一 一这些都是那
些有可衡量的结果宋显示其努力的人们的例证。
13. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is
cut off, and with it the confidence that
information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable.
[参考译文] 随着家庭离开他们原来稳定的社区，离开他们多年的朋友和扩展 的家庭关系，非正式的
信息 流动被切断了，随之而去的是对在需要时能获得 可靠和值得信赖的信息的信心。
14. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her
specific problem is complicated,
time--consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming.
[参考译文] 现在每个人能够得到的信息比任何时代的人都多，而找到与 他／她的特定问题相关
的那一点信息的任务不仅复杂、耗时，有时甚至令 人难以招 。
15. Expertise6 can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or
jobs to travel to a distant conference
site.
[参考译文] 通过远程会议，专家知识可以在全世界范围内被分享，而争论 的问题能够得到解决，
同时相关人员也不必离开他们的家庭或工作跑到一个 遥远的开会地点。
16. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types
seem in some way better than their B type fellows.
[参考译文] 现在这种让孩子们和其同学或时间竞争的热情导致了一个双层结 构，在这个结构里面善于
竞争的A类好像在某个方面要比他们B类的同辈更胜 一筹。
17. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and
your "wares7" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
[参考译文] 在跟你谈话的时候，可能成为你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教 育、经 验和其他资
格是不是值得他雇用你，而你的"商品"和能力一定要以一种有条不紊而且合情合理的相互关联
的方式被展示出来。
18. The Corporation will survive as a publicly funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now
the subject of a nation wide debate in
Britain.
[参考译文] 英国广播公司将作为一个公共基金支持的广播组织存在下来， 至少目前 会这样，但是
它的角色、它的规模和它的节目现在在英国成了全国 上下 的讨论话题。
19. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC--including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good
or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
[参考译文] 这场辩论是由政府发动的，政府请任何一个对英国广播公司有意见的人 一包括普通的听
众和观众一来说说这个公司好在哪里或坏在哪里，甚至说说他们是否认为这个公司值得被保留下来。
20. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess8 signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so
commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders9.
[参考译文] 这种变化通过引入许多的专业因素从而适应了这个新时代的技术 要求， 并且它(这种变
化)防止了效率的降低。这种效率的降低在精力充沛的 创业者之后的 第二代和第三代人 ( 领导公
司)的时候，经常会毁掉那些 家族公 司的财富。
21. Such large, impersonal10 manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders11 as a class, an element in
national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detached from the responsible
management of business.
[参考译文] 这样巨大而非个人的对资金和产业的操纵极大地增加了股东的数 量和他们作为一个阶级
的重要 性，这是国家生活中代表不负责任的财富的一 个 因素，这种财富不但远离了土 地和土
地拥有者的责任，而且几乎同样与 公司的负责任的管理毫无关系。
22. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large "comfortable" classes who had retired12 on their incomes, and who had no relation to the
rest of the community except that of drawing dividends13 and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate14 their orders to the management.
[参考译文] 像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城镇的涌现是为了给那些数量很多 的"舒 适"阶级提供居住
场所。这些人依赖于其丰厚收入而不工作，他们除了 分红和偶尔参加一 下股东大会，向管理层
口授一下自己的命令之外，跟 社会的其他阶层毫无瓜葛。
23. The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his
influence on the relations of capital and labor15 was not good.
[参考译文] 这样的"股东"对他拥有股份的公司所雇用的工人们的生活、思想 和需 求一无所知，而
且他们 对劳资双方的关系都不会产生积极的影响。
24. The paid manager acting16 for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal
knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.
[参考译文] 代表公司的花钱雇来的经理与工人及其需求的关系更加直接， 但是就连 他对工人们也
没有那种熟识的私人之间的了解。而在现在正在消 失的古 老家族公司的那种更加家 长式的制度下
的雇主们却常常对他们的工 人有 这样的私人关系。
25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology； the
practice of giving premiums17 to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial18" thinking about things technological19.
[参考译文] 在许多形成因素当中，我将挑选出这些：这个国家优秀的小学教 育：欢 迎新技术
的劳动者们：奖励发明者的做法；而且最重要的是美国人在 对 那些技术性事物的非 言语的、"空
间性的"思考方面的天赋。
26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed20 out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with
in his mind by a visual, nonverbal
process...The designer and the inventor.., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist".
[参考译文] 正如尤金•弗格森所指出的那样："一个技术专家思考那些不能被 简化成 能被清楚的语言
描述的东西。这些东西在他的思维中是通过一种视觉 的、 非语言表述的过程宋处理
的……设计者和发明者……能够在他们的脑中 装配并操作那些还不存在的装置。"
27. Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet,
considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea".
[参考译文] 罗伯特•法欧特曾经这样写到："一个技师会坐在杠杆、螺丝钉、 楔子、 轮子等等当中，就
像 一个诗人沉浸在字母表的字母中，把这些字母看 成 自己思想的展示，在这样的
展示中，每种新的次 序安排都传达了--种新 的思想。"
28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those
unfamiliar21 with the ways of creationists,
the extent of their deception22 and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.
[参考译文] 在最后三章中，他脱下手套，将神造论者好好地揍了一顿。 他描述了他 们的活动和战
术，而且，对于那些对神造论者的做事方式刁；
熟悉的人来 说，神造论者的欺骗和扭曲事实的程度可能会令这些人有一种不
快的诧 异。
29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the
only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.
[参考译文] 在这本杰出的书的外纸封面上，史蒂芬•杰伊•古尔德写道： "这本书本 身就代表
理性。"而它 确实是这样的--而且如果理性成为神造 论／地化 论之间的辩论中的惟一
评判标准的话，一切就都好办了。
30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world
to allow doctors to take the
lives of incurably23 ill patients who wish to die.
[参考译文] 经过了六个月的争论以及最后16个小时激烈的议会辩论，澳大利 亚北 部地区成了世界
上第一个允许医生终止希望死去的绝症病人生命的立 法 当局。
31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill
and the haste of its passage. But the
tide is unlikely to turn back.
[参考译文] 一些机构终于松了一口气，但是其他一些机构，包括教堂，倡导 生命之 权的团体和澳大利
亚医 学协会，尖锐地抨击这个法案，指责法案的通 过 过于匆忙。但是大势已定，不可逆转。
32. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to
consider making a similar law to deal
with euthanasia.
[参考译文] 在澳大利亚--人口老龄化，延长寿命的技术和变化看的社会态度， 这 些因素都在发挥作用
一一其他的州也会考虑制定相似的关于安乐死的法律。
33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an
observation made so frequently that it deserves
comment.
[参考译文] 当然，例外是存在的。在美国，心胸狭窄的官员，粗鲁的传者， 和没有 礼貌的出租车司机
也 并不少见。然而人们常常得出这样的观察意见， 这 使得它值得被讨论一下。
be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.
[参考译文] 美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的，在这种经济中，消费者很大程度上通过在
市场 上为 那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with
the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their
incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce
it.
[参考译文] 因此，在美国的经济体系中，个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最大化
其收 入效 用的欲望相结合，一起决定了什么 应该被制造，以及资源如何被用来制造它们。
3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers,
which in turn will lower the price and permit
more consumers to buy the product.
[参考译文] 另一方面，如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降，那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商
能提供的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多 的消 费者购买产品。
4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the
right to determine the price of a
product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
[参考译文] 在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包含对生产资源的所有权， 也指其他一些特定的权利，
如确定一个产品价格和与另一个私人个体(经济单 位) 自由签定合同的权利。
5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to
be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns.
[参考译文] 同时这些计算机记录下哪些时间是最忙的，哪些员工工作效率最 高，这样就能相应地做出人
员人事安排。而且它们(计算机)也能为促销活动找 到那些拥有优先权的顾客。
6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more
efficient services to consumers
through the
use of computers.
[参考译文] 不计其数的其他商业企业，从剧院到杂志出版商，从公用燃气电 力设施到牛奶处理厂，都
通过计算机的使用给消费者带来更好、更有效率的 服务。
7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their
education must be adapted to those differences.
[参考译文] 残疾儿童在许多关键方面都与其同龄人不同。为了让这些孩子发展其全部的成人后的潜能，
他们的教育必须适应这些不同。
8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all
citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully2 develop their capabilities3.
[参考译文] 在过去的30年中，公共教育中显示的对残疾儿童的巨大关注表明了我们社会中的一种中强烈的
情绪，那就是所有的公民，不管其情况有多 特殊，都应享有充分发展其能力的机会。
9. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby4 establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to
provide for export at competitive prices.
[参考译文] 它(广告)能够直接帮助货物以比较合理的价格被迅速分销出去，因此可以(使公司)建立一个坚固的国
内市场，同时也使以具有竞争力的价格 提供出口变得可能。
10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising5, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live
up to the promise of his advertisements.
[参考译文] 除去议会有27件法案来规范广告的条件，没有任何一个正式的广 告商敢于推销一种商
品却不能兑现其在广告中的承诺。
11. If its message were confined merely to information and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the
choice of the color of a shirt is subtly
persuasive-advertising wound be so boring that no one wound pay any attention.
[参考译文] 如果其信息只被局限于告知一一就广告而言，如果这不是完全不 可能达到的，也是非
常难做的，因为即便是一个诸如衬衫的颜色的选择这样 的细节都会具有微妙的说 服意味，
那么广告就会如此地乏味以至于没有人 会关注它。
12. The workers who gets a promotion1, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have
measurable results to show for there efforts.
[参考译文] 得到了升迁的工人们，成绩进步的学生，学会了一门新语言的外 国人一 一这些都是那
些有可衡量的结果宋显示其努力的人们的例证。
13. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is
cut off, and with it the confidence that
information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable.
[参考译文] 随着家庭离开他们原来稳定的社区，离开他们多年的朋友和扩展 的家庭关系，非正式的
信息 流动被切断了，随之而去的是对在需要时能获得 可靠和值得信赖的信息的信心。
14. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her
specific problem is complicated,
time--consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming.
[参考译文] 现在每个人能够得到的信息比任何时代的人都多，而找到与 他／她的特定问题相关
的那一点信息的任务不仅复杂、耗时，有时甚至令 人难以招 。
15. Expertise6 can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or
jobs to travel to a distant conference
site.
[参考译文] 通过远程会议，专家知识可以在全世界范围内被分享，而争论 的问题能够得到解决，
同时相关人员也不必离开他们的家庭或工作跑到一个 遥远的开会地点。
16. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types
seem in some way better than their B type fellows.
[参考译文] 现在这种让孩子们和其同学或时间竞争的热情导致了一个双层结 构，在这个结构里面善于
竞争的A类好像在某个方面要比他们B类的同辈更胜 一筹。
17. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and
your "wares7" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
[参考译文] 在跟你谈话的时候，可能成为你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教 育、经 验和其他资
格是不是值得他雇用你，而你的"商品"和能力一定要以一种有条不紊而且合情合理的相互关联
的方式被展示出来。
18. The Corporation will survive as a publicly funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now
the subject of a nation wide debate in
Britain.
[参考译文] 英国广播公司将作为一个公共基金支持的广播组织存在下来， 至少目前 会这样，但是
它的角色、它的规模和它的节目现在在英国成了全国 上下 的讨论话题。
19. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC--including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good
or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
[参考译文] 这场辩论是由政府发动的，政府请任何一个对英国广播公司有意见的人 一包括普通的听
众和观众一来说说这个公司好在哪里或坏在哪里，甚至说说他们是否认为这个公司值得被保留下来。
20. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess8 signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so
commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders9.
[参考译文] 这种变化通过引入许多的专业因素从而适应了这个新时代的技术 要求， 并且它(这种变
化)防止了效率的降低。这种效率的降低在精力充沛的 创业者之后的 第二代和第三代人 ( 领导公
司)的时候，经常会毁掉那些 家族公 司的财富。
21. Such large, impersonal10 manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders11 as a class, an element in
national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detached from the responsible
management of business.
[参考译文] 这样巨大而非个人的对资金和产业的操纵极大地增加了股东的数 量和他们作为一个阶级
的重要 性，这是国家生活中代表不负责任的财富的一 个 因素，这种财富不但远离了土 地和土
地拥有者的责任，而且几乎同样与 公司的负责任的管理毫无关系。
22. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large "comfortable" classes who had retired12 on their incomes, and who had no relation to the
rest of the community except that of drawing dividends13 and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate14 their orders to the management.
[参考译文] 像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城镇的涌现是为了给那些数量很多 的"舒 适"阶级提供居住
场所。这些人依赖于其丰厚收入而不工作，他们除了 分红和偶尔参加一 下股东大会，向管理层
口授一下自己的命令之外，跟 社会的其他阶层毫无瓜葛。
23. The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his
influence on the relations of capital and labor15 was not good.
[参考译文] 这样的"股东"对他拥有股份的公司所雇用的工人们的生活、思想 和需 求一无所知，而
且他们 对劳资双方的关系都不会产生积极的影响。
24. The paid manager acting16 for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal
knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.
[参考译文] 代表公司的花钱雇来的经理与工人及其需求的关系更加直接， 但是就连 他对工人们也
没有那种熟识的私人之间的了解。而在现在正在消 失的古 老家族公司的那种更加家 长式的制度下
的雇主们却常常对他们的工 人有 这样的私人关系。
25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology； the
practice of giving premiums17 to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial18" thinking about things technological19.
[参考译文] 在许多形成因素当中，我将挑选出这些：这个国家优秀的小学教 育：欢 迎新技术
的劳动者们：奖励发明者的做法；而且最重要的是美国人在 对 那些技术性事物的非 言语的、"空
间性的"思考方面的天赋。
26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed20 out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with
in his mind by a visual, nonverbal
process...The designer and the inventor.., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist".
[参考译文] 正如尤金•弗格森所指出的那样："一个技术专家思考那些不能被 简化成 能被清楚的语言
描述的东西。这些东西在他的思维中是通过一种视觉 的、 非语言表述的过程宋处理
的……设计者和发明者……能够在他们的脑中 装配并操作那些还不存在的装置。"
27. Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet,
considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea".
[参考译文] 罗伯特•法欧特曾经这样写到："一个技师会坐在杠杆、螺丝钉、 楔子、 轮子等等当中，就
像 一个诗人沉浸在字母表的字母中，把这些字母看 成 自己思想的展示，在这样的
展示中，每种新的次 序安排都传达了--种新 的思想。"
28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those
unfamiliar21 with the ways of creationists,
the extent of their deception22 and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.
[参考译文] 在最后三章中，他脱下手套，将神造论者好好地揍了一顿。 他描述了他 们的活动和战
术，而且，对于那些对神造论者的做事方式刁；
熟悉的人来 说，神造论者的欺骗和扭曲事实的程度可能会令这些人有一种不
快的诧 异。
29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the
only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.
[参考译文] 在这本杰出的书的外纸封面上，史蒂芬•杰伊•古尔德写道： "这本书本 身就代表
理性。"而它 确实是这样的--而且如果理性成为神造 论／地化 论之间的辩论中的惟一
评判标准的话，一切就都好办了。
30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world
to allow doctors to take the
lives of incurably23 ill patients who wish to die.
[参考译文] 经过了六个月的争论以及最后16个小时激烈的议会辩论，澳大利 亚北 部地区成了世界
上第一个允许医生终止希望死去的绝症病人生命的立 法 当局。
31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill
and the haste of its passage. But the
tide is unlikely to turn back.
[参考译文] 一些机构终于松了一口气，但是其他一些机构，包括教堂，倡导 生命之 权的团体和澳大利
亚医 学协会，尖锐地抨击这个法案，指责法案的通 过 过于匆忙。但是大势已定，不可逆转。
32. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to
consider making a similar law to deal
with euthanasia.
[参考译文] 在澳大利亚--人口老龄化，延长寿命的技术和变化看的社会态度， 这 些因素都在发挥作用
一一其他的州也会考虑制定相似的关于安乐死的法律。
33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an
observation made so frequently that it deserves
comment.
[参考译文] 当然，例外是存在的。在美国，心胸狭窄的官员，粗鲁的传者， 和没有 礼貌的出租车司机
也 并不少见。然而人们常常得出这样的观察意见， 这 使得它值得被讨论一下。
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