第一篇：長難句翻譯100句 2

長難句翻譯100句（2）

1.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.一些機構終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機構——包括教堂，倡導生命權利的團體和澳大利亞醫學協會——都尖銳地抨擊這個法案，指責法案的通過過于匆忙。但是似乎大勢已定，不可逆轉了。

2.In Australiaother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with.在澳大利亞，人口老齡化、延長壽命的技術、變化著的社會態度都在發揮作用。其他的州也會考慮制定類似的有關安樂死的法律。

3.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.當然，例外是存在的。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員、粗魯的餐廳服務員、沒有禮貌的出租車司機也并不少見。然而這樣的情況太多了，值得人們探討這些問題。

4.We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances(drugs)is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.我們生活在一種藥品（藥物）的醫學用途和社會用途都很廣泛的社會里： 用一片阿司匹林止頭痛，用葡萄酒來社交，早上喝咖啡提神，抽一支煙來定神。

5.Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.對藥品的依賴性首先表現為不斷增長的耐藥量，要想得到同樣的效果所需要的藥品劑量越來越大，然后表現為停止用藥后，出現令人不適的停藥癥狀。

6.“Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?” Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week.“You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?”

上星期參議員羅博特多爾質問時代華納公司的高級管理人員們：“難道這就是你們想要成就的事業?你們已經出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅到我們的孩子們嗎?”

7.“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 latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...”

“對任何一個民主社會的考驗，”他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中寫到，“不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達，而在于這個社會是否能給予盡可能廣泛的思想自由和表達自由，無論有時這種結果是多么容易引起爭議，多么令人不快…”

8.During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that “music is not the cause of society's ills” and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.在上個月的股東大會上關于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說：“音樂不是社會問題的根源”，他甚至還用他的兒子作為例子。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的教師，用說唱音樂與學生們進行溝通。

9.Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as “steering 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.有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如“觸動經濟剎車”以“操縱經濟軟著陸”，這樣貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學。沒有什么比這樣描述貨幣政策更遠離事實的了。

10.Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America's, have little productive slack.經濟學家們對英美兩國良好的通貨膨脹數據尤其感到驚訝，因為傳統的計算方法顯示兩國的經濟，特別是美國的經濟，幾乎沒有生產淡季。

第二篇：課本長難句翻譯

高中英語必修1-5模塊 課文長難句翻譯與分析

翻譯句子，分析句子主干，并找出固定句式。

1.I couldn't live this lifestyle without a good wife._______________________________________________________________。

2.It takes me less than 15 minutes to wash, get changed , have breakfast, leave home and get on a bus._____________________________________________________________________________。

3.When I get home at about ten, I look at some documents that I bring back from the office so that I can be ready for the next day’s work.__________________________________________________________________________________ 4.That is what people call the underground in London.__________________________________________________。5.It’s so crowded that I can’t find anywhere to sit.______________________________________________________。6.I spend all morning checking numbers._______________________________________________________。

7.We like to visit nice, quiet places far away from the city and go walking where there are no shops, crowds or the tube.__________________________________________________________________________________ 8.Unfortunately, my wife isn’t as fond of them as I am.___________________________________________________。

9.Yang, who was a pilot in the army ,was chosen from 1,500 other army pilots and started training for his space flight in 1998.___________________________________________________________________________________ 10.Yang Liwei showed the flags of China and the United Nations , expressing the wishes of the Chinese people to explore and use space peacefully.__________________________________________________________________________________ 11.As Yang Liwei returned into the earth’s atmosphere, helicopters were flying to where he would land ready to collect him.__________________________________________________________________________________ 12.I thought 21 hours was too short to stay in space._________________________________________________________________________。

13.In a recent interview, Venus spoke about the time when she and Serena were practicing tennis and they had to run and hide as bullets started flying through the air.__________________________________________________________________________________ 14.The first time Venus played in a big event was in 1996.____________________________________________________________。

15.This not only drew public attention to research into back injures but also encouraged a lot of people living with all kinds of problems.__________________________________________________________________________________ 16.This is how I got involved with my charity work to improve the quality of life for all disabled people.___________________________________________________________________________。17.I’m far too busy with living to think of giving up.___________________________________________________________________________。18.The five men and two women crew, which included the first Indian-born woman in space as well as Israel’s first astronaut ,all died.__________________________________________________________________________________ 19.On this day, the moon is said to be its biggest and brightest.______________________________________________________________。20.The Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.________________________________________________________________________。21.A long silk ribbon that links the crowns is a symbol of a long and happy life for the couple.___________________________________________________________________________。

22.My sister, Alison and I sat down in front of the fire and wrote a letter to Father Christmas telling him about the presents we wanted.__________________________________________________________________________________ 23.At the bottom of the bed was the stocking, now all kinds of small presents and sweets.___________________________________________________________________________。

24.After lunch, the adults slept on the sofas in front of the Queen’s speech on television while we all played cards.____________________________________________________________________。25.Over 2000 years ago, people known as the Celts lived in Northern Europe.______________________________________________________________________________。

26.During this time, they offered crops and dead animals to thank the god and danced in costumes made from animal heads and skin.__________________________________________________________________________________ 27.It was believed that any village that did not give food would have bad luck._____________________________________________________________________________。

28.In these countries children wear spooky（幽靈般的）costumes and go from door to door saying “Trick or treat!” and they are given sweets to take home._________________________________________________________________________________ 29.In the future, terrorists may “attack”the world’s computers,cause chaos,and make planes and trains crash.30.Users can buy books ,find out about holiday offers, book tickets,and get all sorts of information from the internet.31.We will get entertainment from the Net and that television will probably disappear。

32.We will work in virtual offices ,shop in virtual supermarkets ,and we will even study in virtual schools.33.It is clear that we are going to see a huge growth in shopping on the internet.34.It depends on the weather.If it’s good,Dad,Mum and I will probably go camping.But we won’t go ig it rains.If I stay home, I’ll help you with your project if you like.35.If we had virtual reality holidays, we wouldn’t have any problems with the weather.36.It is also the most exciting city in New zealand with people of many different cultures living there.37.It is easy to travel between Auckland and the rest of New zealand.38.New Zealanders, who are also known as “Kiwis”, are relaxed people who love outdoor life.39.It is not surprising that New Zealand is successful at many sports.40.Her most famous album Jagged Little Pill ,came out in 1995 when she was only twenty-one years old.41.There was not an empty seat anywhere in the concert hall at last Thursday’ event ,although it was an extremely cold night.42.The first part of the song was filled with anger, while the last part expressed love and joy.43.He also feels that playing Chinese folk on the piano can help bring it to the rest of the world.44.His mother couldn’t buy him a piano until he was seven.45.He was made to practice the piano so much that, at times , he thought about giving up.46.This is why he went back to his roots and rediscovered the beauty in Chinese folk music.47.To emphasise the woman even more, Chen adds a lot of detail to the fan and the cloth of her dress, and chooses to paint the background behind the woman black.48.A young farmer who wanted a wife would look at a young woman’s paper cutting skills before marrying her.49.People to whom the dead person was related would make these offerings on special days and during festivals.50.The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and worried about the landlord being angry.51.They always told us that one day we would move into a house, areal house that would be ours so we wouldn't have to move each year.52.This was the house Papa talked about when he dreamed of being rich and this is the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.53.According to the old stories of Iceland and Norway, Eric the Red was forced to leave Iceland because he had committed a murder , for which he got into trouble.54.Eric set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, of which only 14 made it to Greenland.55.Biarni was hoping to join his father who was with Eric,but he was blown off course, and found himself in an unknown land, from where he eventually reached Greenland.56.Leif followed Biarni’s directions and sailed to what is believed to be the coast of present –day Canada.57.They spend half their time dreaming up ways of getting rich, and the rest of their time thinking about all the enjoyable things they would do once they got rich.58.He was tired of being a person who had everything in a world where many people had nothing.59.Widespread poverty in Africa means that many people there cannot get the water, clothing, housing, electricity or education they need.60.London’s name had been announced twice before, in 1908 and 1948, so it now has the distinction of being the first city to host the event three times.61.Modern advertisements must stand out in a world full of competition by combining the height standards of design with ideas linked to the products to make them more attractive.62.The top advertisers of today believe that using humor as well as new and unusual ideas to surprising people is important in modern advertisements.63.There are public advertisements which encourage citizens to participate in improving their neighborhood, protecting the environment ,and helping other people.64.Even if they never see their results, they feel that their IQ is what determines how well they are going to do in life.65.They usually believe that those students have a higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do to change facts.66.At work, it is IQ that gets you hired but it is EQ that gets you promoted.67.Supported by his academic research, Professor Salovey suggests that when predicting someone’s future success, their character, as measured by EQ tests, might actually matter more than their IQ.68.Have you ever wondered why some of the smartest students in your class , who you think deserve good grades , sometimes end up failing exams?

69.This association can exist, but it is just as possible for someone with a low IQ to have a high EQ or someone with a high IQ to have a low EQ.70.And the fact that it might be possible to raise EQs means that schools need to make sure that their students are receiving the education they really need, and know that their futures are not entirely determined by their IQs.71.I was getting more and more annoyed and of course, the more upset I got, the less I was able to concentrate, the last straw was when I heard someone singing behind me.72.It was only when I got home two hours later that I realized I’d forgotton it and there was nothing I can do as the library was closed.

第三篇：長難句

1、真實的夢境

英：Our dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake upthat we realize how things are actually strange.Let me ask you a question, you,you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you? You always wind upright in the middle of what's going on。

譯：我們做夢的時候，夢境是真實的，對不對?只有到醒來的時候才會意識到事情不對勁兒。我問你，你從來都不記得夢從何而起是不是?你總是直接插入到夢中所發生的一切。

2、盜夢

英：What'sthe most resilient parasite? An Idea.A single idea from the human mind canbuild cities.An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.Whichis why I have to steal it。

譯：最具有可塑性的寄生生物是什么?是人的想法。人類一個簡單的念頭可以創造城市。一個念頭可以改變世界重寫一切游戲規則。這就是為什么我要從夢中把它盜取出來。

3、對于生命的悔恨

英：Themoment's passed.Whatever I do I can't change this moment.I'm about to call outto them.They run away.If I'm ever going to see their faces I've gotta get backhome.The real world。

譯：那個時刻我沒有把握住。無論我做什么我都不能挽回。我想要呼喚他們，他們卻恰好跑開了。如果我再見到他們的臉龐，我就只能回家去。回到真實的世界。

4、夢中的火車

英：You'rewaiting for a train, a train that will take you far away.You know where youhope this train will take you, but you can't be sure.But it doesn't matter-because we'll be together。

譯：你等著一輛火車，它會把你帶到遠方。你明白自己希望火車把你帶到哪兒，不過你也心存猶豫。但這一切都沒有關系——因為我們在一起。

5、放手

英： I can't stay with her anymore because shedoesn't exist.I wish.I wish more than anything.But I can't imagine you withall your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection.Look at you.Youare just a shade of my real wife.You're the best I can do;but I'm sorry, youare just not good enough。

譯：她不是真實存在的，我不能和她呆在一起。我也想，我比什么都想，但我想像不出你的復雜情緒、你的種種完美和不完美。看看吧，你只是我妻子的一個影子。你只是我竭盡全力能創造出來的而已，但是很遺憾，你遠遠比不上真實的她。

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.[參考譯文]一些機構終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機構，包括教堂，倡導生命之權的團體和澳大利亞醫學協會，尖銳地抨擊這個法案，指責法案的通過過于匆忙。但是大勢已定，不可逆轉。

32.In Australia-where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.[參考譯文]在澳大利亞--人口老齡化，延長壽命的技術和變化看的社會態度，這些因素 都在發揮作用一一其他的州也會考慮制定相似的關于安樂死的法律。

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.[參考譯文]當然，例外是存在的。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯的傳者，和沒有禮貌 的出租車司機也并不少見。然而人們常常得出這樣的觀察意見，這使得它值得被討論一下。

34.We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances(drugs)is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.[參考譯文]我們生活在一種藥品(毒品)的醫學用途和社會用途都很廣泛的社會里：一片用來止頭痛的阿斯匹林，一些用來社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神所喝的咖啡，一支用來定神的香煙。

35.Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.[參考譯文]對藥品的依賴性首先表現為不斷增長的耐藥量，要產生想得到的效果所需要 的藥品劑量越來越大，然后表現為當停止用藥后，令人不快的停藥癥狀的出現。

36.“Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?” Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week.“You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?”

[參考譯文]上星期參議員羅博特多爾質問時代華納公司的高級管理人員們：“難道這就是你們希望能夠成就的事業?你們已經出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅我們的孩子們嗎?”

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 latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...“

[參考譯文]”對任何一個民主社會的考驗，“他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中寫到，”不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達，而在于這個社會是否能給予思考和表達的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結果是多么的富有爭議或令人不快…“

38.During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that ”music is not the cause of society's ills“ and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.[參考譯文]在-上個月的股東大會上關于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說：”音樂不是社 會問題的原因“，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個教師，并用說唱音

樂與學生們進行溝通。

39.Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as ”steering 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.[參考譯文]有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如”輕踩剎車“以”操縱經濟軟著陸“，使 貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學。沒有什么比這更遠離實際情況的了。

40.Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America's, have little productive slack.[參考譯文]經濟學家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹數據尤其感到驚訝，因為傳統的計量方法顯示兩國的經濟，特別是美國的經濟，幾乎沒有生產蕭條的時候。

41.The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective.Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.[參考譯文]很不幸，這最令人震驚的解釋有一點缺陷。一些經濟學家認為世界經濟結構的強有力的變化已經結束了那個以經濟增長和通貨膨脹的歷史關聯為基礎的舊的經濟模式。

42.The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.[參考譯文]例如，阿斯旺大壩使得尼羅河不再洪水泛濫，但是它也奪去了埃及以前所享有的洪水留下的肥沃淤泥--這些換來的就是這么個疾病滋生的水庫，現在這個水庫積滿了淤泥，幾乎不能發電了。

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 joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training.[參考譯文]企業重組的新方法--所有那些重新設計、縮小規模的做法--只是對一個經濟的整體生產力做出了一方面的貢獻。這種經濟還受許多其他因素的驅動，比如結合設備和機械上的投資、新技術，以及在教育和培訓上的投資。

44.His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied reengineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.[參考譯文]他的同事邁克爾·比爾說，有太多的公司已經用一種機械的方式實行公司內部的重新設計，在沒有充分考慮長期贏利的能力下削減了成本。

45.Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as ”The Flight from Science and Reason“, held in New York City in 1995, and ”Science in the Age of(Miss)information, which assembled last June near Buffalo.[參考譯文]科學衛士們在會議上也表述了他們的關注，比如1995 年在紐約市舉行的“ 逃離科學與理性”會議，以及去年6月在布法羅附近召開的“(錯誤)信息時代的科學”會議。

46.A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.[參考譯文]一項關于1996年新聞報道的調查顯示，反科學的標簽還可以貼在許多其他 團體

身上，從提倡消滅最后存留的天花病毒的權威機構，到鼓吹削減基礎研究經費的共和黨人(都被貼上了反科學的標簽)。

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 depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.[參考譯文]環境研究的先驅、斯坦福大學的保羅·厄爾里西認為，科學真正的敵人是那些對支持全球變暖、臭氧層損耗以及工業發展的其他后果的證據提出置疑的人。

48.This development--and its strong implication for US politics and econ·my in years ahead--has enthroned the South as America's most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation's head counting.[參考譯文]這種發展--以及其對美國政治、經濟在未來幾年的潛在的強有力的影響一一 使得南部在全國人口普查中有史以來首次成為美國人口最密集的地區。

49.Often they choose--and still are choosing--somewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Ida ho and Alaska in order to escape smog crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.[參考譯文]他們常常選擇--現在依然這樣選擇--居住在那些氣候較為寒冷的地區，比如俄勒岡、愛達荷，還有阿拉斯加，為的是逃避煙霧、犯罪，以及“金州”(加利福尼亞)城市化進程中的其他問題。

50.As a result, California's growth rate dropped during the 1970's, to 18.5

percent--little more than two thirds the 1960's growth figure and considerably below that of other Western states.[參考譯文]結果，加利福尼亞的人口增長率在20 世紀70 年代時下降到了18.5％——稍高于60 年代增長率的三分之二，大大低于西部其他各州。

Long time on rain,I hold much expectations on the rain.Over the past three months,I leada fruitful life.I

made up my mind to attend the postgraduate admission examination,and set a specific life goal.Ever,ever,ever,I felt a loss due to my disorganized life.Time fiys,it puts my college life into an end,a forceful idea occurs to me that I experienced no pains,no gains belonged to me.Faced with the real life ,I waked

up from a fiction，a daydream.Recently,

第四篇：2018考研英語長難句翻譯講解

2018考研英語長難句翻譯講解（2）

長短句是考研英語的一大重難點，打好長短句翻譯基礎，將會給我們的翻譯和作文帶來巨大的幫助。

1.That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be accepted as impartial judgements.【分析】復合句，主句為 That kind of activity makes it less likely, it 是形式賓語，真正的賓語是 that 引導的名詞性從句。

【譯文】這類行為使得法院的裁定被認為是公正判決的可能性有所下降。2.Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social concepts like liberty and property.【分析】復合句。主句為 Constitutional law is political。because 引導原因狀語從句;其中分詞短語rooted in...作定語修飾 choices, 介詞短語 like liberty and property 修飾 concepts。

【譯文】憲法是由植根于自由和所有權等基本社會觀念的選擇造成的，因此它是政治性的。

3.Those forced to exercises their smiling muscles reacted more enthusiastically to funny cartoons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, suggesting that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around.【分析】復合句。主句為 Those...reacted more enthusiastically to funny cartoons，過去分詞短語forced to...作后置定語修飾 those。than 引導比較狀語從句，該從句中的主語 those 由定語從句修飾，因其較長，謂語又因與主句重復而省略為 did，所以用倒裝語序。suggesting...為現在分詞結構作結果狀語，其中包含 that 引導的賓語從句。

【譯文】那些用牙齒咬著筆，表現出笑容的人比那些用嘴唇叼著筆、表現出沮喪神情的人在看搞笑的動畫片時所作出的反應更豐富。這就證明了表情能夠影響情緒，而不是情緒影響表情。

【拓展】1)contract 作名詞時意為“契約，合同;婚約”;作動詞時意為“締結，訂契約;染上(惡習，疾病等);(使)收縮，(使)緊縮”。2)frown“皺眉，蹙眉”，既是動詞也是名詞。

4.An awareness that they were being experimented upon seemed to be enough to alter workers's behavior by itself.【分析】復合句。句子主干為。An awareness...seemed to be enough to alter...。that 引導同位語從句補充說明awareness，其中 they 指代后面的 workers。Be enough to do “足以...”。

【譯文】只要意識到她們在接受實驗，這一意識本身似乎就足以改變工人們的行為。

第五篇：考研英語長難句翻譯：經典一百句

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.[參考譯文]美國的經濟是以基本的私有企業和市場導向經濟為架構的，在這種經濟中，消費者很大程度上通過在市場上為那些他們最想要的貨品和服務付費來決定什么應該被制造出來。

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.[參考譯文]因此，在美國的經濟體系中，個體消費者的需求與商人試圖最大化其利潤的欲望和個人想最大化其收入效用的欲望相結合，一起決定了什么應該被制造，以及資源如何被用來制造它們。

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.[參考譯文]另一方面，如果大量制造某種商品導致其成本下降，那么這就有可能增加賣方和制造商能提供的供給，而這也就會反過來降低價格并允許更多的消 費者購買產品。

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.[參考譯文]在美國經濟中，私有財產的概念不僅包含對生產資源的所有權，也指其他一些特定的權利，如確定一個產品價格和與另一個私人個體(經濟單位)自由簽定合同的權利。

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.[參考譯文]同時這些計算機記錄下哪些時間是最忙的，哪些員工工作效率最高，這樣就能相應地做出人員人事安排。而且它們(計算機)也能為促銷活動找到那些擁有優先權的顧客。

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.[參考譯文]不計其數的其他商業企業，從劇院到雜志出版商，從公用燃氣電力設施到牛奶處理廠，都通過計算機的使用給消費者帶來更好、更有效率的服務。

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.[參考譯文]殘疾兒童在許多關鍵方面都與其同齡人不同。為了讓這些孩子發展其全部的成人后的潛能，他們的教育必須適應這些不同。

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 fully develop their capabilities.[參考譯文]在過去的30年中，公共教育中顯示的對殘疾兒童的巨大關注表明了我們社會中的一種中強烈的情緒，那就是所有的公民，不管其情況有多特殊，都應享有充分發展其能力的機會。

9.It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing

a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices.[參考譯文]它(廣告)能夠直接幫助貨物以比較合理的價格被迅速分銷出去，因此可以(使公司)建立一個堅固的國內市場，同時也使以具有競爭力的價格提供出口變得可能。

10.Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.[參考譯文]除去議會有27件法案來規范廣告的條件，沒有任何一個正式的廣告商敢于推銷一種商品卻不能兌現其在廣告中的承諾。

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.[參考譯文]如果其信息只被局限于告知一一就廣告而言，如果這不是完全不可能達到的，也是非常難做的，因為即便是一個諸如襯衫的顏色的選擇這樣的細節都會具有微妙的說服意味，那么廣告就會如此地乏味以至于沒有人 會關注它。

12.The workers who gets a promotion, 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.[參考譯文]得到了升遷的工人們，成績進步的學生，學會了一門新語言的外國人一 一這些都是那些有可衡量的結果宋顯示其努力的人們的例證。

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.[參考譯文]隨著家庭離開他們原來穩定的社區，離開他們多年的朋友和擴展的家庭關系，非正式的信息流動被切斷了，隨之而去的是對在需要時能獲得可靠和值得信賴的信息的信心。

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.[參考譯文]現在每個人能夠得到的信息比任何時代的人都多，而找到與他／她的特定問題相關的那一點信息的任務不僅復雜、耗時，有時甚至令人難以招。

15.Expertise 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.[參考譯文]通過遠程會議，專家知識可以在全世界范圍內被分享，而爭論的問題能夠得到解決，同時相關人員也不必離開他們的家庭或工作跑到一個遙遠的開會地點。

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.[參考譯文]現在這種讓孩子們和其同學或時間競爭的熱情導致了一個雙層結構，在這個結構里面善于競爭的A類好像在某個方面要比他們B類的同輩更勝一籌。

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 “wares” and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.[參考譯文]在跟你談話的時候，可能成為你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教育、經 驗和其他資格是不是值得他雇用你，而你的“商品”和能力一定要以一種有條不紊而且合情合理的相

互關聯的方式被展示出來。

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.[參考譯文]英國廣播公司將作為一個公共基金支持的廣播組織存在下來，至少目前會這樣，但是它的角色、它的規模和它的節目現在在英國成了全國上下的討論話題。

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.[參考譯文]這場辯論是由政府發動的，政府請任何一個對英國廣播公司有意見的人一包括普通的聽眾和觀眾一來說說這個公司好在哪里或壞在哪里，甚至要說說他們是否認為這個公司值得被保留下來。

20.The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess 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 founders.[參考譯文]這種變化通過引入許多的專業因素從而適應了這個新時代的技術要求，并且它(這種變化)防止了效率的降低。這種效率的降低在精力充沛的創業者之后的第二代和第三代人(領導公司)的時候，經常會毀掉那些家族公司的財富。

21.Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders 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.[參考譯文]這樣巨大而非個人的對資金和產業的操縱極大地增加了股東的數量和他 們作為一個階級的重要性，這是國家生活中代表不負責任的財富的一個因素，這種財富不但遠離了土地和土地擁有者的責任，而且幾乎同樣與公司的負責任的管理毫無關系。

22.Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management.[參考譯文]像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本這樣的城鎮的涌現是為了給那些數量很多的“舒 適”階級提供居住場所。這些人依賴于其豐厚收入而不工作，他們除了 分紅和偶爾參加一下股東大會，向管理層口授一下自己的命令之外，跟社會的其他階層毫無瓜葛。

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 labor was not good.[參考譯文]這樣的“股東”對他擁有股份的公司所雇用的工人們的生活、思想和需求一無所知，而且他們對勞資雙方的關系都不會產生積極的影響。

24.The paid manager acting 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.[參考譯文]代表公司的花錢雇來的經理與工人及其需求的關系更加直接，但是就連 他對工人們也沒有那種熟識的私人之間的了解。而在現在正在消失的古老家族公司的那種更加家長式的制度下的雇主們卻常常對他們的工人有 這樣的私人關系。

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 premiums to inventors;and above all the American genius for nonverbal, “spatial” thinking about things technological.[參考譯文]在許多形成因素當中，我將挑選出這些：這個國家優秀的小學教育：歡 迎新技術的勞動者們：獎勵發明者的做法；而且最重要的是美國人在對 那些技術性事物的非言語的、“空間性的”思考方面的天賦。

26.As Eugene Ferguson has pointed 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”.[參考譯文]正如尤金?弗格森所指出的那樣：“一個技術專家思考那些不能被簡化成 能被清楚的語言描述的東西。這些東西在他的思維中是通過一種視覺的、非語言表述的過程宋處理的……設計者和發明者……能夠在他們的腦中裝配并操作那些還不存在的裝置。”

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”.[參考譯文]羅伯特?法歐特曾經這樣寫到：“一個技師會坐在杠桿、螺絲釘、楔子、輪子等等當中，就像一個詩人沉浸在字母表的字母中，把這些字母看成自己思想的展示，在這樣的展示中，每種新的次序安排都傳達了--種新 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 unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.[參考譯文]在最后三章中，他脫下手套，將神造論者好好地揍了一頓。他描述了他 們的活動和戰術，而且，對于那些對神造論者的做事方式刁；熟悉的人來說，神造論者的欺騙和扭曲事實的程度可能會令這些人有一種不快的詫異。

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.[參考譯文]在這本杰出的書的外紙封面上，史蒂芬?杰伊?古爾德寫道：“這本書本 身就代表理性。”而它確實是這樣的--而且如果理性成為神造論／地化論之間的辯論中的惟一評判標準的話，一切就都好辦了。

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 incurably ill patients who wish to die.[參考譯文]經過了六個月的爭論以及最后16個小時激烈的議會辯論，澳大利亞北 部地區成了世界上第一個允許醫生終止希望死去的絕癥病人生命的立法當局。

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.[參考譯文]一些機構終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機構，包括教堂，倡導生命之 權的團體和澳大利亞醫學協會，尖銳地抨擊這個法案，指責法案的通過過于匆忙。但是大勢已定，不可逆轉。

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.[參考譯文]在澳大利亞--人口老齡化，延長壽命的技術和變化看的社會態度，這 些因素都在發揮作用一一其他的州也會考慮制定相似的關于安樂死的法律。