91. As an author, I am naturally concerned that a surprisingly large percentage of the population of the United States is functionally illiterate; if they can't read or cannot understand what they read, they won't buy books, or this magazine.

91、我作為一名作家，自然地要關心在美國人口中驚人比例的半文盲，如果他們不能讀或不能理解他們所讀內容，他們就不會買書或是雜志。

92. They do not know those parts of the doctrine which explain and justify the remainder ; the considerations which show that a fact which seemingly conflicts with another is reconcilable with it, or that, of two apparently strong reasons, one and not the other ought to be preferred.

92、他們不知道那解釋和點明其余部分合理的學說，那些表明似乎與其它相沖突的因素是可以協調一致的，或者應該提出兩個明顯有力的原因中的一個而不是另一個。

93. Quite apart from the logistic problems, there existed a well-established tradition in Britain which refused to repatriate against their will people who found themselves in British hands and the nature of whose reception by their own government was, to say the least, dubious.

93、除了邏輯推理問題之外，在英國存在一種悠久的拒絕遣送違反他們意志的人們的傳統，這些人們發現他們處于英國政府的掌握，而這種政府接受的本質卻不確定的。

94. An obsession with the exact privileges of a colonial legislature and the precise extent of Britain’s imperial power, the specifics of a state constitution and the absolute necessity of a federal one, all expressed this urge for a careful articulation as proof that the right relationship with external powers did indeed prevail.

94、對于殖民立法的困擾和英國皇權的范圍，州憲法的細節問題和絕對需要一個聯邦法律。所有這些都表達出迫切的需要謹慎的，具有外在力量的正確關系的證明確實盛行。

95. One encyclopaedia tells us that intelligence is related to the ability to learn, to the speed with which things are learned, to how well and how long ideas are remembered, to the ability to understand those ideas and use them in problem-solving, and to creativity.

95、詞源里告訴我們說智力是和學習能力有關，和所要學習的內容速度有關，和內容記得的好壞和時間的長短有關，而且和理解那些內容，使用它們來解決問題的能力，以及創造力相關。

詞匯點津：

functional illiterate（美）半文盲；職務性文盲（指其讀寫能力不能滿足職業和形勢的要求）