26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed1 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 as百度竞价推广ble 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：一个技术专家考虑那些不可以被简化成 能被了解的语言描述的东西。这类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置的设计者和创造者可以在他们的脑中 装配并操作那些还没有的装置。
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] 罗伯特法欧特过去如此写到：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，把这类字母看成 自己思想的展示，在这种展示中，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 unfamiliar2 with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception3 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法刁；熟知的人来 说，神造论者的欺骗和扭曲事实的程度或许会令这类人有一种不快的诧 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。而它确实是如此的--而且假如理性成为神造论／地化 论之间的辩论中的惟一评判标准的话，所有就都好办了。
30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australias Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably4 ill patients who wish to die.
[参考译文] 经过了六个月的争论与最后16个小时激烈的议会辩论，澳大利亚北 部区域成了世界上第一个允许大夫终止期望过世的绝症患者生命的立 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，但其他一些机构，包含教堂，主张生命之 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 些原因都在发挥用途一一其他的州也会考虑拟定一样的关于安乐死的 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 礼貌的出租车司机也并不少见。然而大家常常得出如此的察看建议，这 使得它值得被讨论一下。
34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances is pervasive5: an aspirin6 to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable7, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.
[参考译文] 大家生活在一种药品的医学作用与功效和社会作用与功效都非常广泛的社会里： 一片用来止头痛的阿斯匹林，一些用来社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神 所喝的咖啡，一支用来定神的烟。
35. Dependence8 is marked first by an increased tolerance9, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal10 symptoms when the substance is discontinued.
[参考译文] 对药品的依靠性第一表现为不断增长的耐药量，要产生想得到的成效所 需要的药品剂量愈加大，然后表现为当停止用药后，让人不快的停药 症状的出现。
36. Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole11 asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt12 our nation and threaten our children as well?
[参考译文] 上星期参议员罗博特多尔质问年代华纳企业的高级管理职员们：难道这 就是你们期望可以收获的事业?你们已经出卖了我们的灵魂，但难道 你们还非要腐化大家的国家，威胁大家的孩子们吗?
37. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude13, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...
[参考译文] 对任何一个民主社会的考验，他在《华尔街杂志》的一个专栏文章中 写到，不在于它可以多有效地控制各种建议的表达，而在于这个社会是 否能给予考虑和表达的尽量广泛的自由，不管有时这种结果是多么 的富存在争议或让人不快
38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last months stockholders meeting, Levin asserted that music is not the cause of societys ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.
[参考译文] 在-上个月的股东大会上关于摇滚歌词的讨论中，莱文宣称说：音乐不是 社会问题是什么原因，他甚至还以他的儿子为例。他的儿子是纽约州布朗克 斯的一个教师，并用说唱音乐与学生们进行交流。
39. Much of the language used to describe monetary14 policy, such as steering15 the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes , makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.
[参考译文] 有不少用于描述货币政策的词语，比如轻踩刹车以操纵经济软着 陆，使货币政策听起来像是一门精确的科学。没什么比这更离得远远的实质 状况的了。
40. Economists16 have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially Americas, have little productive slack.
[参考译文] 经济学家们对英国和美国的有利的通货膨胀数据特别感到惊讶，由于传 统的计量办法显示两国的经济，尤其是美国的经济，几乎没生产萧条 的时候。
41. The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective17. Some economists argue that powerful structural18 changes in the world have upended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.
[参考译文] 非常不幸，这最让人震撼的讲解有一点缺点。一些经济学家觉得世界经济 结构的强有力的变化已经结束了那个以经济增长和通货膨胀的历史关联 为基础的旧的经济模式。
42. The Aswan Dam, for example, sTOPped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt19 that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.
[参考译文] 比如，阿斯旺大坝使得尼罗河不再洪水泛滥，但它也夺去了埃及以前 所享有些洪水留下的肥沃淤泥--这类换宋的就是这么个疾病滋生的水 库，目前这个水库积满了淤泥，几乎不可以发电了。
43. New ways of organizing the workplace--all that re-engineering and downsizing--are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint20 investment in equipment and machinery21, new technology, and investment in education and training,
[参考译文] 企业重组的新办法--所有那些重新设计、缩小规模的做法--只不过对 一个经济的整体生产力做出了一方面的贡献。这种经济还受很多其他因 素的驱动，譬如结合设施和机械上的投资、新技术，与在教育和培训 上的投资。
44. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied22 re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out cosplayts without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.
[参考译文] 他的同事迈克尔比尔说，有太多的公司已经用一种机械的方法实行公 司内部的重新设计，在没充分考虑长期盈利的能力下削减了本钱。
45. Defenders23 of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as The Flight from S.cience and Reason , held in New York City in 1995, and Science in the Age of information, which as百度竞价推广bled last June near Buffalo24.
[参考译文] 科学卫士们在会议上也表述了他们的关注，譬如1995年在纽约市举行的 逃离科学与理性会议，与去年6月在布法罗附近召开的 信息年代的科掌握议。
46. A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination25 of the last remaining stocks of smallpox26 virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
[参考译文] 一项关于1996年新闻报道的调查显示，反科学的标签还可以贴在很多其 他团体身上，从倡导消灭最后存留的天花病毒的权威机构，到鼓吹削减 基础研究经费的共和党人。
47. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrllch of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion27 of the ozone28 layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
[参考译文] 环境研究的先驱、斯坦福大学的保罗厄尔里西觉得，科学真的的敌人 是那些对支持全球变暖、臭氧层损耗与工业进步的其他后果的证据提 出置疑的人。
48. This development--and its strong implication for US politics and economy in years ahead--has enthroned the South as Americas most densely29 populated region for the first time in the history of the nations head counting.
[参考译文] 这种进步--与其对美国政治、经济在将来几年的潜在的强有力的影 响一一使得南部在全国人口普查中有史以来初次成为美国人口最密集 的区域。
49. Often they choose--and still are choosing--somewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog.crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.
[参考译文] 他们常常选择--目前依旧如此选择--居住在那些气候较为寒冷的地 区， 譬如俄勒冈、爱达荷，还有阿拉斯加，为的是逃避烟雾、犯罪， 与金州城市化进程中的其他问题。
50. As a result, Californias growth rate dropped during the 1970s, to 18.5 percent--little more than two thirds the 1960s growth figure and considerably30 below that of other Western states.
[参考译文] 结果，加利福尼亚的人口增长率在20世纪70年代时降低到了18．5％一 一稍高于60年代增长率的三分之二，大大低于西部其他各州。
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