長難句分析（三）_跨考網(wǎng)

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--以及其對美國政治、經(jīng)濟在未來幾年的潛在的強有力的影 響一一使得南部在全國人口普查中有史以來首次成為美國人口最密集 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率在20世紀(jì)70年代時下降到了18.5％一 一稍高于60年代增長率的三分之二，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(熱點)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運動已經(jīng)能夠被詳細(xì)地表述出來，但是這些板 塊相對于另一些板塊的運動還不能輕易地解釋為它們相對于地球內(nèi)部 的運動。

53. As the dome grows, it develops seed fissures (cracks); in at least a few cases the continentmay break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean.

[參考譯文] 暫缺

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--比如對于藥物相互作用的危險提出 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，這些警告是不是確實可以使得生產(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，美國法律研究所--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，也不必連篇累牘地一再提請他們注意 一些可能會出現(xiàn)的危險。

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公民的某種觀念，這個公民人物如果不能 很恰當(dāng)?shù)卣J(rèn)識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.

[參考譯文] 另外，在我們這么一個大國里，經(jīng)濟延展到這么多的州、涉及到這么多 的國際公司，因而要按照數(shù)量培養(yǎng)出所需的各類專業(yè)人員是不大可能的，
61.But,for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not.

[參考譯文] 但是，對一個小部分學(xué)生來說，職業(yè)教育也是條可取的路徑。因為在 其他因素相同的情況下，技能的嫻熟是得到工作與否的關(guān)鍵。

62. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment-although no one had proposed to do so--and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning.

[參考譯文] 他宣布自己反對使用這種非同尋常的畜牧繁殖技術(shù)來克隆人類，并下令 . 不準(zhǔn)聯(lián)邦政府基金用于做此類試驗--盡管還沒有人建議這么做--他 還請一個以普林斯頓大學(xué)校長哈羅得?夏皮羅為首的獨立的專家組在90 天內(nèi)向白宮匯報關(guān)于制定有關(guān)克隆人的國家政策的建議。 63. In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be "morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning". 參考譯文] 在5月17日的會議上所討論的這份建議書的序言草案中，夏皮羅提出， 專家組已經(jīng)達(dá)成廣泛共識，那就是"試圖通過成人細(xì)胞核克隆來制造人類幼兒的 做法在道德上是不可接受的"。

64. Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research or toknowingly endanger an embryo's life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research.

[參考譯文] 因為現(xiàn)今的聯(lián)邦法律已經(jīng)禁止使用聯(lián)邦基金克隆胚胎(人類后裔在出生 前的最早階段)用于研究或者有意地威脅胚胎的生命，NBAC在胚胎研 究上將保持沉默。

65. If experiments are planned and carried out according to plan as faithfully as the reports in the science journals indicate, then it is perfectly logical for management to expect research to produce results measurable in dollars and cents.

[參考譯文] 如果試驗是像科學(xué)雜志上的報告所示的那樣如實地根據(jù)計劃規(guī)劃和實施的話，那么對管理層來說，期待研究能夠產(chǎn)生可以用金錢衡量的結(jié)果是完全合理的。

66. It is entirely reasonable for auditors to believe that scientists who know exactly where they are going and how they will get there should not be distracted by the necessity of keeping one eye on the cash register while the other eye is on the microscope.
[參考譯文] 審查者完全有理由相信，知道自己準(zhǔn)備做什么、怎么做的科學(xué)家不應(yīng)該因為必須一只眼盯著收銀機，一只眼盯著顯微鏡而分散了注意力。

67. Nor, if regularity and conformity to a standard pattern are as desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear to reflect, is management to be blamed for discriminating against the "odd balls" among researchers in favor of more conventional thinkers who "work well with the team."

[參考譯文] 如果科學(xué)家對標(biāo)準(zhǔn)式樣的整齊劃一的要求就像他論文的寫作所反映的一 樣，那么管理層就不該因歧視研究者中的"思維與眾不同的人"，喜歡其 中較為傳統(tǒng)的"善于團(tuán)隊合作"的思想者而受到指責(zé)了。

68. The grand mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival and number of off- spring--means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribe.
[參考譯文] 當(dāng)今人與人在很大程度上的平等--即面對自然淘汰法則人人機會均等，并且連子嗣的數(shù)目都一樣--意味著和在印度土著部落中的情況相比， 印度中上層階級中已喪失了80％的自然選擇中的優(yōu)勢。

69. When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal.

[參考譯文] 當(dāng)藝術(shù)領(lǐng)域的一個新運動發(fā)展成某種流行時尚時，最好應(yīng)該弄清這場運動倡導(dǎo)者的真正意圖，因為，不管他們的原則在今天看來多么牽強無理，很可能多年以后他們的理論會被視為正常。

70. With regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right--it can hardly be classed as Literature.

[參考譯文] 然而就未來主義詩歌來說，情況則不這么簡單了，因為不管未來主義詩歌是什么--就算承認(rèn)它賴以存在的理論基礎(chǔ)都是正確的--這種形式也很難被歸入文學(xué)。

71. But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river--and then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights of the officers, "Pluff! Pluff!" A hundred and eighty-five kilograms."

[參考譯文] 但當(dāng)我們先是從注釋中得知某詩行講述了一個土耳其軍官和一個保 加利亞軍官在橋上動手打架并雙雙掉進(jìn)河里，而后卻發(fā)現(xiàn)該行詩中不過只充斥著"撲通，撲通，185公斤重"這類對他們落水時的動靜以及對軍官們體重的描寫時，我們不免感到困惑不安。

72. The coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women into the male- domiated job market have limited the opportunities of teen-agers who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Janpan's rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs.

[參考譯文] 戰(zhàn)后嬰兒潮一代的步入成年以及女性打入男性主導(dǎo)的勞動力市場使得青少年的發(fā)展機會變得極為有限，他們已經(jīng)在不停地質(zhì)疑為了爬上日本國內(nèi)那通往優(yōu)秀學(xué)校和體面工作的嚴(yán)酷的社會階梯而做出的巨大的個人 犧牲。

73. Last year Mitsuo Setoyama, who was then education minister, raised eyebrows when he argued that liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation authorities after World WarII had weakened the "Japanese morality of respect for parents".
[參考譯文] 去年，當(dāng)擔(dān)任教育部長職務(wù)的瀨戶光夫爭辯說二戰(zhàn)后由美國占領(lǐng)當(dāng)局引入的自由主義革新削弱了日本民族"尊敬父母的道德品質(zhì)"的時候，輿論嘩然。

74. With economic growth has come centralization: fully 76 percent of Japan's 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, tow-generation households.
[參考譯文] 隨著經(jīng)濟的增長，出現(xiàn)了集中化:全國1.19億公民，其中整整76％的人口定居城市:在這里，原來的社區(qū)和多代同堂的大家庭已被摒棄，取而代之的是與外界疏于往來的、只由兩代人組成的核心家庭。

75. If the tradition of ambition is to have vitality, it must be widely shared; and it especially must be highly regarded by people who are themselves admired, the educated not least a-mong them.

[參考譯文] 如果野心的傳統(tǒng)具有生命力，那么這傳統(tǒng)必會為許多人分享；尤其會受到自己也受人仰慕的人士的青睞，在這些人中受過良好教育的可不占少數(shù)。

76. Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly. Summer homes, European travel, BMWs--the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago.

[參考譯文] 當(dāng)然，人們現(xiàn)在對成功及其各種標(biāo)志的興趣似乎并不亞于先前。消夏 別墅、歐陸旅行、寶馬車--地點、地名以及品牌或許會有變化，但這類事物在今天被人渴求的程度也似乎不會亞于一二十年前。

77. Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home; the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in three-star restaurants; the journalist advocating participatory democracy in all phases of life, whose own children are enrolled in private schools.

[參考譯文] 相反，我們被款待看到這樣一些虛偽的壯觀景象，他們似乎比以前的任何時候都更供應(yīng)充足:美國式物質(zhì)主義的批判者卻擁有位于南安普頓的避暑山莊:激進(jìn)書籍的出版商卻在三星級餐廳享用一日三餐；倡導(dǎo)在人生各個階段的參與民主制的記者，他的子女卻就讀于私立學(xué)校。

78. No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professional and amateurs in science: exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word "amateur" does carry a connotation that person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and, in particular, may not share its values.

[參考譯文] 科學(xué)領(lǐng)域的專業(yè)人員和業(yè)余愛好者之間劃不出涇渭分明的界線:因為任何規(guī)則都有例外。然而，"業(yè)余"一詞的確意味著相關(guān)人員不能充分融入職業(yè)科學(xué)界，尤其未能分享科學(xué)圈子的價值。

79. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United kingdom.

[參考譯文] 很自然，這種趨勢會在尤以數(shù)學(xué)或?qū)嶒炇矣?xùn)練為基礎(chǔ)的自然學(xué)科領(lǐng)域表現(xiàn)最為明顯，并且可以英國的地質(zhì)學(xué)發(fā)展作例證來說明。