141. Though most dictionary have a system of making words as obsolete, or in use only as slang, many people, more especially if their use of a particular word has been challenged, are likely to conclude, if they find it in a dictionary, that it is accepted as being used by writers of established reputation.

141、盡管許多字典將有些詞匯定義為“過時(shí)”或者說“只作口語用”，但許多人對(duì)某些詞匯的用法不解時(shí)，當(dāng)他們查完字典，卻往往發(fā)現(xiàn)許多知名作家也在作品中正式使用。

142. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.

142、人們只能是相對(duì)富裕，而另一些人就相對(duì)貧窮了。既然權(quán)力是集中在富人的手中，公共政策就將繼續(xù)反應(yīng)他們的利益而不是窮人的利益了。

143. Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways.

143、社會(huì)變化在有多種人群匯集的社會(huì)里比僅有相似人群的社會(huì)里更容易發(fā)生。

144. In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, Notions of male superiority are hard to maintain.

144、如果一個(gè)家庭里面男女的角色不是明顯地分開，家務(wù)事由雙方分擔(dān)的話，大男子主義就很難維持了。

145. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the "battle of the sexes."

145、在這樣的家庭中長(zhǎng)大的孩子們比他們的父母更容易參與到以合作為特征的社會(huì)中去，而不靠什么“性別之爭(zhēng)”。