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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。一些經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家認(rèn)為世界經(jīng)濟(jì)結(jié)構(gòu)的強(qiáng)有力的變化已經(jīng)結(jié)束了那個(gè)以經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)和通貨膨脹的歷史關(guān)聯(lián)為基礎(chǔ)的舊的經(jīng)濟(jì)模式。
42. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left-all 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(gè)疾病滋生的水庫(kù)，現(xiàn)在這個(gè)水庫(kù)積滿了淤泥，幾乎不能發(fā)電了。
43. New ways of organizing the workplace--all that re-engineering and downsizing--are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training,
[參考譯文] 企業(yè)重組的新方法--所有那些重新設(shè)計(jì)、縮小規(guī)模的做法--只是對(duì)一個(gè)經(jīng)濟(jì)的整體生產(chǎn)力做出了一方面的貢獻(xiàn)。這種經(jīng)濟(jì)還受許多其他因素的驅(qū)動(dòng)，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。
44. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.
[參考譯文] 他的同事邁克爾 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(zhǎng)期贏利的能力下削減了成本。
45. Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from S.cience and Reason" , held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis) information, which assembled last June near Buffalo.
[參考譯文] 科學(xué)衛(wèi)士們?cè)跁?huì)議上也表述了他們的關(guān)注，比如1995年在紐約市舉行的"逃離科學(xué)與理性"會(huì)議，以及去年6月在布法羅附近召開的"(錯(cuò)誤)信息時(shí)代的科學(xué)"會(huì)議。
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 smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
[參考譯文] 一項(xiàng)關(guān)于1996年新聞報(bào)道的調(diào)查顯示，反科學(xué)的標(biāo)簽還可以貼在許多其他團(tuán)體身上，從提倡消滅最后存留的天花病毒的權(quán)威機(jī)構(gòu)，到鼓吹削減基礎(chǔ)研究經(jīng)費(fèi)的共和黨人(都被貼上了反科學(xué)的標(biāo)簽)。
47. The "true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrllch of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
[參考譯文] 環(huán)境研究的先驅(qū)、斯坦福大學(xué)的保羅 厄爾里西認(rèn)為，科學(xué)真正的敵人是那些對(duì)支持全球變暖、臭氧層損耗以及工業(yè)發(fā)展的其他后果的證據(jù)提 出置疑的人。
48. This development--and its strong implication for US politics and economy in years ahead--has enthroned the South as America"s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation"s head counting.
[參考譯文] 這種發(fā)展--以及其對(duì)美國(guó)政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)在未來幾年的潛在的強(qiáng)有力的影響一一使得南部在全國(guó)人口普查中有史以來首次成為美國(guó)人口最密集的地區(qū)。
49. Often they choose--and still are choosing--somewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog.crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.
[參考譯文] 他們常常選擇--現(xiàn)在依然這樣選擇--居住在那些氣候較為寒冷的地區(qū)， 比如俄勒岡、愛達(dá)荷，還有阿拉斯加，為的是逃避煙霧、犯罪，以及"金州"(加利福尼亞)城市化進(jìn)程中的其他問題。
50. As a result, California"s growth rate dropped during the 1970"s, to 18.5 percent--little more than two thirds the 1960"s growth figure and considerably below that of other Western states.
[參考譯文] 結(jié)果，加利福尼亞的人口增長(zhǎng)率在20世紀(jì)70年代時(shí)下降到了18.5%一 一稍高于60年代增長(zhǎng)率的三分之二，大大低于西部其他各州。
51. Unlike most of the world"s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth"s surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate.
[參考譯文] 跟世界上的大多數(shù)火山不同的是，它們并不總是在由構(gòu)成地球 表面巨大漂流板塊之間的邊界上出現(xiàn);相反，它們中有許多位于一個(gè)板塊較縱深的內(nèi)部。
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 earth"s interior.
[參考譯文] 攜帶這些大陸板塊的相對(duì)運(yùn)動(dòng)已經(jīng)能夠被詳細(xì)地表述出來，但是這些板塊相對(duì)于另一些板塊的運(yùn)動(dòng)還不能輕易地解釋為它們相對(duì)于地球內(nèi)部 的運(yùn)動(dòng)。
53. As the dome grows, it develops seed fissures(cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean.
[參考譯文] 當(dāng)圓頂開始擴(kuò)大，它將發(fā)展成為裂縫。至少在一些情況里，這些裂縫將最終分裂為單獨(dú)的陸地板塊，因此，熱的地方開始變成新的海洋的雛形。
54. While warnings are often appropriate and necessary--the dangers of drug interactions, for example--and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn"t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured.
[參考譯文] 盡管警告常常是適當(dāng)而且必須的--比如對(duì)于藥物相互作用的危險(xiǎn)提出警告--許多警告還是按州或聯(lián)邦政府規(guī)定要求給出的，然而我們并不清楚，如果顧客受到傷害時(shí)，這些警告是不是確實(shí)可以使得生產(chǎn)者 和銷售者豁免責(zé)任。
55. At the same time, the American Law Institute--a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight--issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.
[參考譯文] 與此同時(shí)，美國(guó)法律研究所--由一群法官、律師和理論專家組成，他們的建議分量極重--發(fā)布了新的民事傷害法令指導(dǎo)方針，宣稱公司不 必提醒顧客注意顯而易見的危險(xiǎn)，也不必連篇累牘地一再提請(qǐng)他們注意 一些可能會(huì)出現(xiàn)的危險(xiǎn)。
56. In the past year, however, software companies have developed tools that allow companies to "push" information directly out to consumers, transmitting marketing messages directly to targeted customers.
[參考譯文] 但是，在過去的一年間，軟件公司已經(jīng)開發(fā)出工具，使得公司可以直接 將信息"推出"給顧客，直接把營(yíng)銷訊息傳遞給目標(biāo)顧客。
57. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, Amazon.com, and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers.
[參考譯文] 像Virtual Vineyards，Amazon.com這樣的先驅(qū)網(wǎng)站表明，一個(gè)將交互性、熱情服務(wù)和安全性合理結(jié)合以銷售同類商品的網(wǎng)址是可以吸引網(wǎng)上客戶 注意的。
58. An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students" career prospects and those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical education reform.
[參考譯文] 有些人為了學(xué)生的就業(yè)前景為教室里放置電腦而辯，有些人為教育的徹底改革中更為廣泛的理由為教室里放置電腦而辯，這兩群人之間有一條 無形的界線。
59. Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a character who is incomplete if he cannot competently access how his livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself.
[參考譯文] 我們更應(yīng)該具有的是作為美國(guó)公民的某種觀念，這個(gè)公民人物如果不能 很恰當(dāng)?shù)卣J(rèn)識(shí)到自己的生存和幸福是如何受到自身之外的事物的影響， 那么其公民特征就是不完整的。
60. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.
