2009年英译汉全文
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There is a marked difference between the education which every one gets from living with others, and the deliberate educating of the young. In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association. (46) It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive. Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc. (47) Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution. Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.
和他人共同生活时得到的教育与年轻人接受的特殊教育，两者存在显著区别。就前者而言，教育是偶然的；这种教育是自然的、重要的，但它不是人们联合起来的直接原因。或许可以说，衡量任何社会制度的价值，都要看它在丰富和完善经验方面的作用；但这种作用并非其原始动机的一部分。例如，宗教社团最初是为了获得天主恩赐、避免邪魔影响；家庭生活是为了满足各种欲望、保持家族延续；有系统的劳动则是为了奴役他人，等等。制度附带产生的影响引起注意的过程相当缓慢，而人们将这种影响视为制度指导性因素的过程则更加缓慢。甚至在今天，在我们的工业化生活中，除了勤奋和节俭的价值得到了认可，世界运转所依赖的人类社团的许多智力和感情反应，与人类社团的物质产物比起来，得到的关注可谓微不足道。
But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance. (48) While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults. The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account. (49) Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or not we are forming the powers which will secure this ability. If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.
但在和年轻人打交道时，社团本身作为一个客观存在的人类事实，却得到了重视。我们在和年轻人打交道时，容易忽略自身行为对他们性格的影响；然而在于成年人打交道的时候，这种情况却不那么容易发生。他们很明显需要接受培训，改变他们的态度和习惯也迫在眉睫，以至于我们不能留下这些后果完全不予考虑。既然我们的主要任务是让他们能够融入共同生活，我们就不禁会思考，自己是否在形成一种力量，来确保他们做到这一点。每个社团的终极价值在于它对人类的独特影响——如果说人类对这一点的认识有所进展，那么我们完全可以相信，这主要是通过和年轻人打交道学到的。
(50) We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling. In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. These groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps the adults loyal to their group.
