【正文】 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(guān)系。 meeting to dictate their orders to the management.舒適階級提供居住場所。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 monly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders. ，并且它(這種變化)防止了效率的降低。16. The current passion for making children pete against their classmates or against the clock produces a twolayer system, in which petitive Atypes seem in some way better than their B type fellows.，在這個結(jié)構(gòu)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。12. The workers who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new languageall these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for there efforts.，成績進(jìn)步的學(xué)生，學(xué)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(jié)果宋顯示其努力的人們的例證。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.，公共教育中顯示的對殘疾兒童的巨大關(guān)注表明了我們社會中的一種中強(qiáng)烈的情緒，那就是所有的公民，不管其情況有多特殊，都應(yīng)享有充分發(fā)展其能力的機(jī)會。而且它們(計算機(jī))也能為促銷活動找到那些擁有優(yōu)先權(quán)的顧客。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 ines, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.，在美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)體系中，個體消費(fèi)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(jié)合，一起決定了什么應(yīng)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 modity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by sellerproducers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product.，如果大量制造某種商品導(dǎo)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(fèi)者購買產(chǎn)品。6. Numerous other mercial 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 puters.，從劇院到雜志出版商，從公用燃?xì)怆娏υO(shè)施到牛奶處理廠，都通過計算機(jī)的使用給消費(fèi)者帶來更好、更有效率的服務(wù)。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 petitive prices.(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(nèi)市場，同時也使以具有競爭力的價格提供出口變得可能。13. As families move away from their stable munity, 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.，離開他們多年的朋友和擴(kuò)展的家庭關(guān)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。17. While talking to you, your couldbe 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.，可能成為你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教育、經(jīng)驗(yàn)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(guān)聯(lián)的方式被展示出來。這種效率的降低在精力充沛的創(chuàng)業(yè)者之后的第二代和第三代人(領(lǐng)導(dǎo)公司)的時候，經(jīng)常會毀掉那些家族公司的財富。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。25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country39。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(shè)計者和發(fā)明者……能夠在他們的腦中裝配并操作那些還不存在的裝置。29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: This book stands for reason itself. And so it doesand all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.，史蒂芬?杰伊?古爾德寫道：這本書本身就代表理性。31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, righttolife groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.，但是其他一些機(jī)構(gòu)，包括教堂，倡導(dǎo)生命之權(quán)的團(tuán)體和澳大利亞醫(yī)學(xué)協(xié)會，尖銳地抨擊這個法案，指責(zé)法案的通過過于匆忙。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯?shù)膫髡撸蜎]有禮貌的出租車司機(jī)也并不少見。36. Is this what you intended to acplish 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?：難道這就是你們希望能夠成就的事業(yè)?你們已經(jīng)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 column39。s ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to municate with students.，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。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 America39。42. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods leftall in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.，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宋的就是這么個疾病滋生的水庫，現(xiàn)在這個水庫積滿了淤泥，幾乎不能發(fā)電了。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 (Mis) information, which assembled last June near Buffalo.，比如1995年在紐約市舉行的 逃離科學(xué)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(xué)會議。48. This developmentand its strong implication for US politics and economy in years aheadhas enthroned the South as America39。50. As a result, California39。51. Unlike most of the world39。52. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of the plates with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth39。54. While warnings are often appropriate and necessarythe dangers of drug interactions, for exampleand many are required by state or federal re