【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 of capital and labor was not good.　　24. The paid manager acting for the pany 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.　　25. Among the many shaping factors,I would single out the country39。s excellent elementary schools： a labor force that weled the new technology。 the practice of giving premiums to inventors。 and above all the American genius for nonverbal,spatial thinking about things technological.　　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。　　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?！　?8. 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 e as an unpleasant surprise.　　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.　　30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates,Australia39。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.　　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.　　32. In Australia where an aging population,lifeextending technology and changing munity attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.　　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 ment.　　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.　　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 with drawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.　　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?　　37. The test of any democratic society,he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column39。,lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude,however disputableorirritating the results may sometimes be……　　38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month39。s stockholders39。 meeting,Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society39。s ills and even cited his son,a teacher in the Bronx,New York,who uses rap to municate with students.　　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.　　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。s,have little productive slack.　　翻譯　　，這是國家生活中代表不負(fù)責(zé)任的財富的一個因素，這種財富不但遠(yuǎn)離了土地和土地?fù)碛姓叩呢?zé)任，而且?guī)缀跬瑯优c公司的負(fù)責(zé)任的管理毫無關(guān)系?！　　笆孢m”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?！　　肮蓶|”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(guān)系都不會產(chǎn)生積極的影響?！　?，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(xiàn)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(guān)系?！　?，我將挑選出這些：這個國家優(yōu)秀的小學(xué)教育：歡迎新技術(shù)的勞動者們：獎勵發(fā)明者的做法。而且最重要的是美國人在對那些技術(shù)性事物的非言語的、“空間性的”思考方面的天賦。　　弗格森所指出的那樣：“一個技術(shù)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(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?！薄　》W特曾經(jīng)這樣寫到：“一個技師會坐在杠桿、螺絲釘、楔子、輪子等等當(dāng)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(dá)了——種新的思想?！薄　?，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(zhàn)術(shù)，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?！　?，史蒂芬杰伊古爾德寫道：“這本書本身就代表理性?！倍_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(biāo)準(zhǔn)的話，一切就都好辦了。　　，澳大利亞北部地區(qū)成了世界上第一個允許醫(yī)生終止希望死去的絕癥病人生命的立法當(dāng)局?！　。瞧渌恍C構(gòu)，包括教堂，倡導(dǎo)生命之權(quán)的團體和澳大利亞醫(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。但是大勢已定，不可逆轉(zhuǎn)?！　　丝诶淆g化，延長壽命的技術(shù)和變化看的社會態(tài)度，這些因素都在發(fā)揮作用一一其他的州也會考慮制定相似的關(guān)于安樂死的法律。　　，例外是存在的。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯?shù)膫髡?，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。　　(毒品)的醫(yī)學(xué)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?！　?，要產(chǎn)生想得到的效果所需要的藥品劑量越來越大，然后表現(xiàn)為當(dāng)停止用藥后，令人不快的停藥癥狀的出現(xiàn)。　?。骸半y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.“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(dá)，而在于這個社會是否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結(jié)果是多么的富有爭議或令人不快…”　　，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(xué)生們進(jìn)行溝通。　　，例如“輕踩剎車”以“操縱經(jīng)濟軟著陸”，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。沒有什么比這更遠(yuǎn)離實際情況的了?！　。驗閭鹘y(tǒng)的計量方法顯示兩國的經(jīng)濟，特別是美國的經(jīng)濟，幾乎沒有生產(chǎn)蕭條的時候。 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. 　　 Aswan Dam,for ex