-
雅思阅读长难句一：
For
example,
vision
is
obviously
more
useful
to
species
inhabiting
clear
open waters than to those living in
turbid rivers and flooded plains.
（
C4T1P2
）
雅思阅读长难句解析
：
整个句子是由
more? than? 引导的比较状语从句，
然后分别在名词
species
和代词
those
的后面插入了非谓语动词的现在分词“inhabiting clear
open
waters”和“living in
turbid rivers and flooded plains”做后置定语。
长难句翻译
：
比如说，
对于宽广清澈水域中的鲸鱼来说，
视觉显然就比住在
混浊的河流或者水
淹的平原上的品种来说更加有用。
雅思阅读长难句二：
Quite
often, governments try to kill off a minority
language by banning
its use in public
or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote
national unity.
（
C4T2P1
）
雅思阅读长难句解析
：
整个句子首先用
quite often
副词插入句子头表示强调，主语是
governments,
谓语是
try
，
后面不定式短语
to kill off a
minority language
做宾语，然
后加上介词
by
引导的的方式状语，最后插入一个
to
引导的目的状语。
长难句翻译
：
为了增加国家的凝聚力，
政府通常会通过在公共场合禁用以及在学校中不提倡使
用的方法，消灭少数民族语言。
雅思阅读长难句三：
Animals
at
play
often
use
unique
signs-tail-wagging
in
dogs,
for
example-to
indicate
that
activity
superficially
resembling
adult
behavior is not really
in earnest.
（
C4T2P3
）
雅思阅读长难句解析
：
这句话的主语是
animals
，
< br>
谓语是
use
，
宾语是
signs
，
双破折号当中的部分
是插入语，
to
indicate
是宾语补足语，
indicate
后面跟了一个宾语从句。
Activity
是宾语
从句的主语，
is
是系动词，
in e
arnest
是表语，
resembling
< br>是现在分词做后置定语来修饰
activity
。
长难句翻译
：
<
/p>
玩耍中的动物会用一些独特的标志—比如狗摇尾巴—来表明这种简单模仿大动
物的行为的举动并不是玩真的。
雅思阅读长难句四：
We
already
know
that
rat
pups
denied
the
chance
to
play
grow
smaller
brain
components
and
fail
to
develop
the
ability
to
apply
social
rules
when
they
interact with their peers.
（<
/p>
C4T2P3
）
雅思阅读长难句解析
：
整个句子的主语是
we
，
k
now
that
后面引导的宾语从句，宾语从句的主语是
rat
pups
，
谓语是
grow
和
fail
，最后插入一个
when
引导的时间状语从句，其中
denie
d the chance to
play
是过去分词做后置定语来修饰
rat
pups
。
长难句翻译
：
我们已经知道，
没有机会玩耍的小老鼠，
大脑各部分发育的比
较小，
同时也不具
备运用社会规则与其他小老鼠交流的能力。<
/p>
Having made their wealth and
their reputations elsewhere
，
they presumably have
enough
independence to disagree with the chief
executive’s proposals.—
2011
阅
读第
一篇
解析：
Having made their wealth
and their reputations elsewhere
—
doing
做状语，
they presumably have enough
independence to disagree with the chief
executive’s
proposals.
—
主句
翻译：他们已经锦衣玉食，声名显赫，即便是首席执行官的提议，他们也会
提
出异议且没人会觉得他们唐突。
The researchers from Ohio University
used a database that covered more than
10
，
000 firms and
more than 64
，
000 different
directors between 1989 and 2004.
—
2011
阅读第一篇
解析：
The
researchers from Ohio
University
—
主语
used a database
—
谓
语和宾
语
that covered
more than 10
，
000 firms and
more than 64
，
000 different
directors
between 1989 and
2004.
—
定语从句修饰数据库
翻译：
来
自俄亥俄大学的研究者构建了一个庞大的数据库，
其数据是通过对
1989
年到
2004
年间超过
10000
家公司和
64000
名不同的董事调查后所得出的。
The most likely reason for
departing a board was age
，
so the researchers
concentrated on those “surprise”
disappearances by directors under the age of 70. <
/p>
—
2011
阅读第一篇
< br>
解析：
The most likely reason
for departing a
board
—
主语
was
age
—
系表结构，
so
—
并列连接两个句子
the
researchers
—
主语
concentrated
on
—
谓语
those
“surprise”
disappearances by directors under the age of
70.—
宾语
翻译：
年龄是他们离职董事会的主要
原因。
因此，
研究者特别关注那些不满
七十岁的董事的
“
意外
”
离职。
Although a correlation between them
leaving and subsequent bad performance at
the firm is
suggestive
，
it
does not mean that such directors are always
jumping off a
sinking ship.
—
2011
阅读第一篇
解析：
Although a correlation
between them leaving and subsequent bad
performance at the firm is suggestive
，
--
让步状语从句
it does not mean (that such
directors are always jumping off a
sinking ship)--
主句中的宾语从句
.
—
主句
翻译：
他们离任与该公司随后的糟糕
表现不无关系，
但这并不意味着他们不
愿挽狂澜于既倒、
扶大厦于将倾。
But the researchers believe
that outside directors have an easier time of
avoiding
a blow to their reputations if
they leave a firm before bad news
breaks
，
even if a
review of history shows they were on
the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.
—
2011
阅读第一篇
解析：
But the
researchers
—
主语
believe
—
谓语
that outside directors have an
easier time of avoiding a blow to their
reputations
—
宾语从句
if they leave a firm
before
bad news
breaks
—
条件状语从句，
even if a review of history shows (they
were on the board at the time
《
any wrongdoing occurred
》
—
定语从句修饰
ti
me)--
让步状语从句中的宾语从句
.
—
让步状语从句
翻译：
研究者们坚信：
如果外部董事在坏消息放出之前就离开公司，
即便追
溯历史时人们发现一些错误正是发生在这些外部董事担任董事期间，
他们的名声
也丝毫不会受损。
Newspapers like the San Francisco
Chronicle were chronicling their own
doom.-- 2011
阅读第二篇
解析：
Newspapers like the San
Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own
doom.
—
简单句过去进行时
-- chronicling their own
doom
编写自己的厄运。
翻译：像《洛杉矶编年史》一类的报纸似乎也是在劫难逃。
Even American
newspapers
，
which
inhabit the most troubled come of the global
industry
，
have not only survived but often
returned to profit.
--2011
阅读第二篇
解析：
Even American
newspapers
，
--
主语
which inhabit the most
troubled come
of the global industry
，
--
定语从句修饰美国报纸
have not only survived but often
returned to
profit.
—
谓语
翻译：
尽
管在全球各行业中实属处境不佳，
美国报纸业不仅幸存了下来，
还
重新实现了盈利。
The American Society of
News Editors reckons that
13
，
500 newsroom jobs have
gone since 2007.
--2011
阅读第二篇
解析：
The American
Society of News
Editors
—
主语
reckons
—
谓语
that 13
，
500
newsroom jobs have
gone
—
宾语从句
since
2007.
—
状语
翻译：
美
国新闻编辑协会估算：
自
2007
年以来，
13500
个和新闻相关的
职
务已消失得无影无踪。
Newspapers are becoming
more balanced businesses
，
with a healthier mix of
revenues from readers and advertisers.
--2011
阅读第二篇
解析：
Newspapers
are becoming more balanced businesses
，<
/p>
--
主句
with a
healthier mix of
revenues from readers and advertisers.
—
独立主格做状语
翻译：读者买报纸的钱和客户投放广告的钱有了一个更合理的
配比。因此，
报业发展得也更为均衡。
The whirlwind
that swept through newsrooms harmed
everybody
，
but
much of
the damage has been
concentrated in areas where newspaper are least
distinctive.
--2011
阅读第二篇
解析：
The whirlwind (that swept
through newsrooms)--
定语从句修饰旋风
harmed everybody
，
--
主句一
but
< br>—
并列连接两个句子
much
of the damage has
been concentrated in
areas
—
主句二
where newspaper are least distinctive.<
/p>
—
定语从
句修饰领域
翻译：
这会波及新闻编辑室每个部门，
但对于那些最没有特色的部门影响尤
大。
(
注释：之所以没有把每个人翻译出来是因为：人
和部门如果做对比的话显
得怪怪的。
)
1. Libraries made education possible,
and education in its turn added to libraries;
the growth of knowledge followed a kind
of compound-interest law, which was
greatly enhanced by the invention of
printing.
要点：从内容上分析，
which
修饰
“the growth of
knowledge”
图书馆的出现使教育的发展成为可能，
而教育的发展又反过来使图书馆不断
扩大充实。
知识的增长遵循了一种复利法则。
由于印刷术的发明，
这一知识增长
过程得以大大加速。
2. If they can each be trusted to take
such responsibilities, and to exercise such
initiative as falls within their
sphere, then administrative overhead will be low.
如果他们每个人都能予以信任承担这样的职责，
并在他们所管辖
的范围内发
挥主动性，那么管理费用就会降低。
3. There are probably no question we
can think up that can’t be answered, sooner
or later, including even that matter of
consciousness.
迟早可能不存在我们想得出但解答不了的问题，甚至包
括我们意识的问题。
4. The curtain was
rung down in that phase of history, at least, by
the sudden
invention of the hydrogen
bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that
can be
aimed to hit the moon.
至少由于氢弹、弹道导弹和登月火箭出人意料地发明，那个历史时期宣告结
束了。<
/p>
5. Studies of the Weddell
seal in the laboratory have described the
physiological
mechanisms that allow the
seals to cope with the extreme oxygen deprivation
that
occurs during its longest dives,
which can extend 500 me
ters below the
ocean’s
surface and last for over 70
minutes. (
三个定语从句
)
关于威德尔海豹特殊的生理机制，
在实验室里对其进行的研究已作过详细的
描述。
该生理机制使海豹可以适应长时间潜水时出现的极度缺氧。
海豹长时间潜
水时最深可达水面以下
500
米，时间可持续
70
多分钟。
6. The renaissance of the
feminist movement began during the 1950’s led to
the
Stasist school, which sidestepped
the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier
women lived lives similar t the lives
of women in the East.
20
世纪
50
年代女权运动的复兴产生了斯塔西学派，这一学派回避好与坏的
二分法，认为边境地区妇女和东部妇女过着同样的生活。
7. Tom, the book’s protagonist, took
issue with a man who doted on
his
household pet yet, as a slave merchant,
thought “nothing of separating the husband
from the wife, the parents from the
children”.
书中的主人公汤姆与一个人发生了争执
。这人虽然爱家中的宠物。但作为一
个奴隶贩子，却认为
“
拆散夫妻，让骨肉分离算不了什么
”
。
8. We are not conscious of
the extent to which work provide the psychological
satisfaction that can make the
difference between a full and an empty life.
我们不了解工作给人们提供的能把充实的生活与空虚的生活区分开来的心
理
满足的程度有多大。
9. Thus, the unity
that should characterize the strong system is
developed by
affording opportunity for
diversity, which appears to be essential if
education is to
develop in
consideration of the needs of children and youth.
因此，
强大的教育体系所具备的统一性这一特点是通过提供各种
机会来达到
的。如果发展教育要考虑儿童和青年的需要，多种机会就显得至关重要。
10. Automobiles have been
designed which operate on liquid hydrogen, but
these
system give rise to seemingly
unavoidable problems arising from the handling of
a
cryogenic liquid.
虽然已经设计出液
氢驱动的汽车，
但是这些系统带来一些由如何处理低温液
体而引
发的似乎难以回避的问题。
11.
Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised
in an environment where
there are many
stimuli which develop his or her capacity for
appropriate responses
will experience
greater intellectual development.
行为主义者
的看法是：如果一个儿童在有许多刺激物的环境中长大，而这些
刺激物又能培养其作出适
当的反应能力，那么他就会有比较高的智力发展水平。
12.
While there are almost as many definitions of
history as there are historians,
modern
practice most closely conforms to one that sees
history as the attempt to
recreate and
explain the significant events of the past.
虽然有多少个历史学家，就差不多有多少种历史学的定义，但现代史学家的
实
践大都趋向于这样一种定义，即历史学是旨在重现和解释过去重大事件的学
科。
13. While this boundary does
not mark the outer limit
of a State’s
territory, since
in international law
the territorial sea forms part of a State’s
territory, it does represent
the demarc
ation(
分界，
定界，
界限
)between that maritime area(internal
waters) where
other States enjoy no
general rights, and those maritime areas (the
territorial sea and
other zones) where
other States do enjoy certain general rights.
尽管这条分界线并不算是国家领土的外缘边界，但是，因为在国际法中领海
也是国家领土的组成部分，它的确是其他国家在其内不享有一般权利的海区
(
内
水域
)
与其他国家在
其中享有某些一般权利的那些海区
(
领海及其他区域
)
之间的
分界线。
14. He finds that students who were
easy to teach because they succeeded in
putting everything they had been taught
into practice, hesitate when confronted with
the vast untouched area of English
vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope
of basic textbooks.
他发现原先比较容
易教的学生现在踌躇不前了：
原先比较容易教是因为他们
能把教
给他们的所有东西都付诸实践
;
现在踌躇是因为他们面对着大量
的在基础
教科书上所没有接触过的英语词汇和惯用法。
15. The reader who peruses (
细读
(
正式
)) with some
attention the following
pages will have
occasion to see that both operational and mental
aspects of physics
have their place,
but that neither should be stressed to the
exclusion of the other.
读者如果略微仔细地阅读以下几页
就会有理由认为，
实验操作和思维在物理
学中都具有一定的地位
，因而不能强调一方而忽略另一方。
16. The
public is unhappy about the way society is going,
and its view, fueled in
part by the
agendists and the media, seems to be that judicial
(
司法的
)decisions
unacceptable to them, regardless of the
evidence or the law, will slow or change social
directions.
公众对社会发展的前景不乐观，在议
事人士和新闻媒体的某种鼓动下，公众
的观点似乎是：
不管证据
或法律，
司法判决对他们来说是不可接受的，
这些判决
将会延缓或者改变社会走向。
17. But
I would like to do the same with the acclaim too,
by using this moment as
a pinnacle from
which I might be listened to by the young men and
women already
dedicated to the same
anguish(
痛苦
) and
travail(
辛苦
), among whom is
already that
one who will some day
stand here where I am standing.
我愿意利用这个
时刻，利用这个举世瞩目的讲坛，向那些听到我讲话并已献
身同一艰苦劳动的男女青年致
敬。
他们当中肯定有人迟早也会站到我现在所站的
地方。
雅思阅读经典长难句
100
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.
[
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。
< br>
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 fully
develop their capabilities.
[
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，<
/p>
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,
thereby establishing a firm home market
and so making it possible to provide for
export at competitive prices.
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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
advertising, no regular advertiser dare
promote a product that fails to live up to the
promise of his advertisements.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
架
。
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.
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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，<
/p>
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.
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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
manner.
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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.
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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.
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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
要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 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.
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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, 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.
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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
the rest of the
community except that of drawing dividends and
occasionally attending
a
shareholders
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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
<
/p>
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
< br>
社会的
其他阶层毫无瓜葛。
23.
The
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.
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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 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.
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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
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,
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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
< br>思考方面的天赋。
26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out,
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
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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
……
< br>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,
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
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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<
/p>
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.
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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:
stands for reason
itself.
judge in the
creationism/evolution debate.
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在这本杰出的书的外纸封面上，史蒂芬
杰伊
古尔德写道：
< br>
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
doctors to take the
lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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。
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.
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我们生活在一种药品
(
毒品
)
的医学用途和社会用途都很广泛的
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，一支用来定神的香烟。
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.
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