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       26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in 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 not exist".

　　[参阅译文] 正如尤金 弗格森所指出的那样："一个技能专家考虑那些不能被简化成 能被清楚的言语描述的东西。这些东西在他的思维中是经过一种视觉的、 非言语表述的过程宋处理的……规划者和发明者……能够在他们的脑中 安装并操作那些还不存在的设备。"

　　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 arrangement transmits a new idea".

　　[参阅译文] 罗伯特 法欧特从前这样写到："一个技师会坐在杠杆、螺丝钉、楔子、轮子等等傍边，就像一个诗人沉浸在字母表的字母中，把这些字母当作 自己思维的展现，在这样的展现中，每种新的次第安排都传达了--种新 的思维。"

　　28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.

　　[参阅译文] 在最终三章中，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，并且，关于那些对神造论者的干事方法刁;了解的人来 说，神造论者的诈骗和歪曲现实的程度可能会令这些人有一种不快的惊奇。

　　29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

　　[参阅译文] 在这本出色的书的外纸封面上，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--并且假如理性成为神造论/地化论之间的争辩中的专一评判规范的话，一切就都好办了。

　　30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia"s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.

　　[参阅译文] 经过了六个月的争辩以及最终16个小时激烈的议会争辩，澳大利亚北部区域成了国际上第一个答应医师终止期望死去的绝症患者生命的立 法当局。

　　31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.

　　[参阅译文] 一些组织总算松了一口气，可是其他一些组织，包括教堂，倡导生命之权的集体和澳大利亚医学协会，尖利地打击这个法案，责备法案的经过 过于匆忙。可是大势已定，不可逆转。

　　32. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.

　　[参阅译文] 在澳大利亚--人口老龄化，延伸寿数的技能和改变看的社会情绪，这些要素都在发挥作用逐个其他的州也会考虑拟定类似的关于安乐死的法令。

　　33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.

　　[参阅译文] 当然，破例是存在的。在美国，心胸狭窄的官员，粗鲁的传者，和没有礼貌的出租车司机也并不少见。可是人们常常得出这样的调查定见，这 使得它值得被评论一下。

　　34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

　　[参阅译文] 咱们生活在一种药品(毒品)的医学用处和社会用处都很广泛的社会里：一片用来止头痛的阿斯匹林，一些用来交际的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神 所喝的咖啡，一支用来定神的卷烟。

　　35. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

　　[参阅译文] 对药品的依赖性首要表现为不断增加的耐药量，要发生想得到的作用所需求的药品剂量越来越大，然后表现为当中止用药后，令人不快的停药 症状的呈现。

　　36. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?"

　　[参阅译文] 上星期参议员罗博特多尔责问时代华纳公司的高档管理人员们："莫非这就是你们期望能够成就的工作?你们现已出卖了自己的灵魂，可是莫非 你们还非要堕落咱们的国家，威胁咱们的孩子们吗?"

　　37. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column", "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."

　　[参阅译文] "对任何一个民主社会的检测，"他在《华尔街杂志》的一个专栏文章中写到，"不在于它能够多有效地控制各种定见的表达，而在于这个社会是 否能给予考虑和表达的尽可能广泛的自在，不管有时分这种结果是多么 的赋有争议或令人不快…"

　　38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month"s stockholders" meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society"s ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

　　[参阅译文] 在-上个月的股东大会上关于摇滚歌词的评论中，莱文宣称呼："音乐不是社会问题的原因"，他乃至还以他的儿子为例。他的儿子是纽约州布朗克斯的一个教师，并用说唱音乐与学生们进行交流。

　　39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" of "a touch on the brakes" , makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

　　[参阅译文] 有许多用于描述货币政策的词汇，例如"轻踩刹车"以"操作经济软着陆"，使货币政策听起来像是一门准确的科学。没有什么比这更远离实际情况的了。

　　40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America"s, have little productive slack.

　　[参阅译文] 经济学家们对英国和美国的有利的通货膨胀数据特别感到惊奇，由于传统的计量办法显现两国的经济，特别是美国的经济，简直没有出产惨淡的时分。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 很不幸，这最令人震惊的解说有一点缺点。一些经济学家以为国际经济结构的强有力的改变现已完毕了那个以经济增加和通货膨胀的前史相关为根底的旧的经济模式。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 例如，阿斯旺大坝使得尼罗河不再洪水众多，可是它也夺去了埃及以前所享有的洪水留下的肥美淤泥--这些换宋的就是这么个疾病滋生的水库，现在这个水库积满了淤泥，简直不能发电了。

　　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,

　　[参阅译文] 企业重组的新办法--所有那些从头规划、缩小规划的做法--只是对一个经济的全体出产力做出了一方面的奉献。这种经济还受许多其他要素的驱动，比方结合设备和机械上的出资、新技能，以及在教育和训练上的出资。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 他的搭档迈克尔 比尔说，有太多的公司现已用一种机械的方法实施公司内部的从头规划，在没有充分考虑长时间赢利的能力下减少了本钱。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 科学卫兵们在会议上也表述了他们的重视，比方1995年在纽约市举行的"逃离科学与理性"会议，以及上一年6月在布法罗邻近举行的"(过错)信息时代的科学"会议。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 一项关于1996年新闻报道的调查显现，反科学的标签还能够贴在许多其他集体身上，从提倡消除最终存留的天花病毒的权威组织，到宣扬减少根底研讨经费的共和党人(都被贴上了反科学的标签)。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 环境研讨的前驱、斯坦福大学的保罗 厄尔里西以为，科学真实的敌人是那些对支撑全球变暖、臭氧层损耗以及工业开展的其他结果的证据提 出怀疑的人。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 这种开展--以及其对美国政治、经济在未来几年的潜在的强有力的影响逐个使得南部在全国人口普查中有史以来初次成为美国人口最密布的区域。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 他们常常挑选--现在仍然这样挑选--寓居在那些气候较为冰冷的区域， 比方俄勒冈、爱达荷，还有阿拉斯加，为的是躲避烟雾、违法，以及"金州"(加利福尼亚)城市化进程中的其他问题。

　　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.

　　[参阅译文] 结果，加利福尼亚的人口增加率在20世纪70年代时下降到了18.5%一 一稍高于60年代增加率的三分之二，大大低于西部其他各州。