【正文】 ite. [參考譯文 ] 通過遠(yuǎn)程會議，專家知識可以在全世界范圍內(nèi)被分享，而爭論的問題能夠得到解決，同時相關(guān)人員也不必離開他們的家庭或工作跑到一個遙遠(yuǎn)的開會地點(diǎn)。 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. [參考譯文 ] 在跟你談話的時候，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。 19. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBCincluding ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping. [參考譯文 ] 這場辯論是由政府發(fā)動的，政府請任何一個對英國廣播公司有意見的人 一包括普通的聽眾和觀眾一來說說這個公司好在哪里或壞在哪里，甚至 要說說他們是否認(rèn)為這個公司值得被保留下來。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。 22. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large fortable classes who had retired on their ines, and who had no relation to the rest of the munity except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders39。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。 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. [參考譯文 ] 代表公司的花錢雇來的經(jīng)理與工人及其需求的關(guān)系更加直接，但是就連 他對工人們也沒有那種熟識的私人之間的了解。 25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country39。 and above all the American genius for nonverbal, spatial thinking about things technological. [參考譯文 ] 在許多形成因素當(dāng)中，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。 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. [參考譯文 ] 羅伯特 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 e as an unpleasant surprise. [參考譯文 ] 在最后三章中，他脫下手套，將神造論者好好地揍了一頓。 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. [參考譯文 ] 在這本杰出的書的外紙封面上，史蒂芬古爾德寫道： 這本書本 身就代表理性。 30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia39。 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. [參考譯文 ] 一些機(jī)構(gòu)終于松了一口氣，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。 32. In Australia where an aging population, lifeextending technology and changing munity attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. [參考譯文 ] 在澳 大利亞 人口老齡化，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。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(jī)也并不少見。 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. [參考譯文 ] 我們生活在一種藥品 (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。 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? [參考譯文 ] 上星期參議員羅博特多爾質(zhì)問時代華納公司的高級管理人員們： 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 stockholders39。s ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to municate with students. [參考譯文 ] 在 上個月的股東大會上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，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。 39. Much of the language used to describe moary 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. [參考譯文 ] 有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如 輕踩剎車 以 操縱經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著 陸 ，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。 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。 41. The 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. [參考譯文 ] 很不幸，這最令人震驚的解釋有一點(diǎn)缺陷。 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. [參考譯文 ] 例如，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。這種經(jīng)濟(jì)還受許多其他因 素的驅(qū)動，比如結(jié)合設(shè)備和機(jī)械上的投資、新技術(shù)，以及在教育和培訓(xùn) 上的投資。比爾說，有太多的公司已經(jīng)用一種機(jī)械的方式實(shí)行公 司內(nèi)部的重新設(shè)計(jì)，在沒有充分考慮長期贏利的能力下削減了成本。 46. A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smal