The humanities Out of date翻译

The humanities: Out of date?

人文学科：过时了吗？

When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting. When the job market

worsens, many students calculate they can't major in English or history. They have to

study something that boosts their prospects of landing a job.

当形势变得困难时，强者会去选学会计。当就业市场恶化时，许多学生估算着他们不

能再主修英语或历史。他们得学一些能改善他们就业前景的东西。

The data show that as students have increasingly shouldered the ever-rising cost of

tuition, they have defected from the study of the humanities and toward applied science

and

is more and more seen as a means for economic betterment rather than a means for

human betterment. This is a trend that is likely to persist and even accelerate.

数据显示，随着学生肩负的学费不断增加，他们已从学习人文 学科转向他们相信有益

于将来就业的应用科学和

“

硬

”

技能。换言之，大学教育越来越被看成是改善经 济而不是提升

人类自身的手段。

这种趋势可能会持续，

甚至有加快之势。

Over the next few years, as labor

markets struggle, the humanities will probably continue their long slide in succession.

There already has been a nearly 50 percent decline in the portion of liberal arts majors

over the past generation, and it is logical to think that the trend is bound to continue or

even accelerate. Once the dominant pillars of university life, the humanities now play little

roles when students take their college tours. These days, labs are more vivid and

compelling than libraries.

在未来几年内，由于劳动力市场的不景气，人文学科可能会继续其长期低迷的态势。

在上一代

大学生中，

主修文科的学生数跌幅已近

50%

。

这种趋势会持续、

是合情合理的。

人文学科曾是大学 生活的重要支柱，

而今在学生们参观校园的时候，

却只是

一个小点缀。现在，实验室要

比图书馆更栩栩如生、受人青睐。

Here, please allow me to stand up for and promote the true value that the humanities

add to people's lives.

在这儿，< /p>

请允许我为人文学科给人们的生活所增添的真实价值进行支持和宣传。

Since

ancient times, people have speculated about the mystery of those inner forces that drive

some people to greatness and others to self-destruction. This inner drive has

been called many things over the centuries. The famous psychologist, Sigmund

Freud, called it the

自古以来，人们一直在思索人类自身具有什么神奇的内力使一些人变得崇高伟大，而

使 另一些人走向自我毁灭。

几个世纪以来，

这股内力被称作很多东 西。

著名的心理学家西格

蒙德

·

弗洛伊德称之为

“

潜意识

”

，或更为人熟知的

“

本能

”

。

From the beginning of time, this

inner aspect of our being, this drive that can be

constructive or destructive, has captured our imagination. The stories of this

amazing struggle have formed the basis of cultures the world over. Historians, architects,

authors, philosophers and artists have captured the words, images and meanings of this

inner struggle in the form of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sculpture,

landscape and traditions. These men and women developed artistic

us understand these aspirations and also educate generations. This fertile body of work

from ancient times, the very foundation of civilization, forms the basis of study of the

humanities.

从一开 始，

人类这股可以是建设性也可以是毁灭性的内在驱动力，

就令 我们心驰神往。

这些惊

人的、充满内 心挣扎的故事形成了世界文化的基础。历史学家、建筑师、作家、哲

学家和艺术家们以故 事、音乐、神话、绘画、建筑、雕刻、风景画和传统的形式，

捕捉到

了这些撞击心灵的文字、形象及内涵。这些男男女女创造出了具有艺术性的

“

语言

”

，帮助我< /p>

们了解人类的这些强烈愿望，并用以教育一代又一代人。从古时

起开始的这些充满想象的

大量作品，正是文明的底蕴，它奠定了 人文研究的基础。

Studying the humanities improves our ability to read and write. No matter what we do

in life, we will have a huge advantage if we can read complex ideas and understand their

meaning. We will have a bright career if we are the person in the office who can write a

clear and elegant analysis of those ideas!

学习人文学科 会提高我们的阅读和写作能力。无论我们这一生中从事什么职业，如果

我们能读懂复杂的 思想并理解它们的内涵，

我们都会受益匪浅。

如果我们是在办公 室里能对

这些思想写出既明确又简洁的分析的人，我们会有光明的职业前景。