.0#?u1gXsX /l0\SVwa> 1. The Americaneconomic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced byspending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that theywant 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 ofindividuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be producedand 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 itscost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, whichin 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 theownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the rightto determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with anotherprivate 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 whichemployers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignmentsto be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers forpromotional 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。
6.Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers,from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and moreefficient 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 thesame age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, theireducation 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 thepast three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that allcitizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fullydevelop 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，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 providefor export at competitive prices.
[参考译文]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 ofadvertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live upto the promise of his advertisements.
[参考译文]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 bedifficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice ofthe color of a shirt is subtly persuasive-advertising wound be so boring thatno one wound pay any attention.
[参考译文]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, theforeigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who havemeasurable results to show for there efforts.
[参考译文]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 cutoff, and with it the confidence that information will be available when neededand will be trustworthy and reliable.
[参考译文] 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 thetask of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specificproblem is complicated, time--consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming.
[参考译文]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 。
15.Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems indispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobsto travel to a distant conference site.
[参考译文]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，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 makingchildren compete against their classmates or against the clock produces atwo-layer system, in which competitive A-types seem in some way better thantheir B type fellows.
[参考译文]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 youreducation, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ youand your "wares" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly andreasonably connected manner.
[参考译文]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, atleast for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now thesubject of a nation wide debate in Britain.
[参考译文]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 opinionof the BBC--including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good or badabout the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
[参考译文] 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 largeprofess signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonlyspoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation afterthe energetic founders.
[参考译文] 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 andindustry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as aclass, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detachedfrom the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detachedfrom the responsible management of business.
[参考译文]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"comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, and who hadno relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends andoccasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to themanagement.
[参考译文]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"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，跟社会的其他阶层毫无瓜葛。
23.The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts orneeds of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and hisinfluence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.
[参考译文]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 themen and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledgeof the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchalsystem of the old family business now passing away.
[参考译文]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's excellentelementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology; thepractice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius fornonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.
[参考译文]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"思考方面的天赋。
26.As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objectsthat can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt within 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 notexist".
[参考译文]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……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, "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 arrangementtransmits a new idea".
[参考译文]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 的思想。"
28.In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationistsa good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for thoseunfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception anddistortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.
[参考译文] 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 JayGould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-andall wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolutiondebate.
[参考译文] 在这本杰出的书的外纸封面上，史蒂芬•杰伊•古尔德写道："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 arguingand final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territorybecame the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take thelives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.
[参考译文]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-lifegroups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill andthe haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.
[参考译文]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 changingcommunity attitudes have all played their partother states are going toconsider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.
[参考译文]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。
