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The humanities: Out of
date?
人文学科：过时了吗？
When the going gets tough, the tough
takeaccounting. When the job market
worsens, manystudents
calculate
they can't major
in English orhistory. They
have to
study something that booststheir
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
c
ost of tuition,they have defected from
the study of the humanities and toward
applied science and
er words, a college
education is more andmore seen as a means for
economic
betterment rather than a means
for human is a
trend
that
i
s 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
“<
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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 proba
bly continue
theirlong
slide
in
succession. There already has been a nearly
50
percent
decline
in the
portion
of
liberal
arts majors over
the past generatio
n, and it is
logical
to think that the
trend
is boundto continue or
even
accel
erate
.
Once the
dominant
pillars of
university life, the humanities nowplay
li
ttle roles when students take their
college tours. These days, labs are more
vi
vid
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。
< br>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、甚至加速的想法是合情
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 h
umanities add topeople's
lives.
在这儿，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 aboutthe
mystery
of those
inner
forces that drive somepeople to
greatness and others to self-
destructio
n
.Thi
s inner drive has been
called many things over thecenturies. The famous
psy
chologist
,
SigmundFreud, called it the
unconscious
mind
y,
instinct
< br>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 formedthe basis of cultures
the world over. Histor
ians, architects,
authors, philosophers and artistshave captured the
words, im
ages and meanings of this
inner struggle in the form of story,music,
myth
, p
ainting,
architecture,
sculpture
,
landscape
and traditions.
These men andw
omen developed
artistic
understand
these
aspirati
ons and alsoeducate
generations. This
fertile
body of work from ancient time
s, the
very
foundation
ofcivilization, forms the basis of study of the
humaniti
es.
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
”
，
帮助我们了解人<
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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
wh
at we do in life, wewill have a huge
advantage
if we can read
complex
ideas
and
understand
their meaning.
Wewill have a bright career if we are the
per
son in the office who can write a
clear and
elegantanalysis
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。
Studying the
humanities makes us familiar with thelanguage of
emotion and t
he
creative
process. In
aninformation economy, many people have the
abilit
y to
produce
a useful product such as a new MP3 , very few
people
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