1.You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal.

【難句釋義】You will soon become an uneducated, ignorant person who can only work machines and operate mechanical equipment.

【難句解析】the push-button Neanderthal為new species of mechanized savage 的同位語。

2.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy.

【難句釋義】If you are too eager to make money, or if you are too ignorant of seeing your limitations, to accept some of the thinking of Aristotle,or Chaucer, or Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human. You will become neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy.

【難句解析】 注意簡單短語too...to“太...以至于不能”在句中的應用。同時此句既是一個省略句，又是一個運用了強調性并列連詞neither...nor...的主從復合句。首先，or后面省略了if you are。其次，當我們表達兩項并列的成分時，常使用一些固定的強調性并列連詞將其加以連接。如：either...or,not only...but (also)..., not...but..., both...and...等等。