Translation

Group 1：

1. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.

2. 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.

3. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of “juggling your life”, and making the alternative move into “downshifting” brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.

4. This eye-on-the-consumer approach is known as the marketing concept, which simply means that instead of trying to sell whatever is easiest to produce or buy for resale, the makers and dealers first endeavor to find out what the consumer wants to buy and then go about making it available for purchase.

5. When a packaging expert explained that he was able to multiply the price of hard sweets by 2.5, from 1dollar to 2.50 dollars by changing to a fancy jar, or that he had made a 5-ounce bottle look as though it held 8 ounces, he was in effect telling the public that packaging can be a very expensive luxury.

6. It has also been proposed that just because we know so much about people intuitively, there has been less incentive for studying them scientifically: why should one develop a theory, carry out systematic observations, or make predictions about the obvious?

7. The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up into the tree answered the question he had been asking himself about those larger fruits of the heavens, the moon and the planets.

8. The issue of whether life ever existed on the planet, and whether it persists to this day, has been highlighted by mounting evidence that the Red Planet once had abundant stable, liquid water and by the continuing controversy over suggestions that bacterial fossils rode to Earth on a meteorite from Mars.

9. The manufacturer who increases the unit price of his product by changing his package size to lower the quantity delivered can, without undue hardship, put his product into boxes, bags, and tins that will contain even 4-ounce, 8-ounce, one-pound, two-pound quantities of breakfast foods, cake mixes, etc.

10. And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies.

11. We will be faced with a situation where many of the users of these dictionaries will at the very least have distinct socio cultural perspectives and may have world views which are totally opposed and even hostile to those of the West.

12. But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading.

13. If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United States.

14. While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.

15. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 300 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones.

16. Nowhere could this be done more surely than at Yale, which was not only elite and distinguished but also experimental and adaptable to the free-form culture of the era.

17. The desire that men feel to increase their income is quite as much a desire for success as for the extra comforts that a higher income can obtain.

18. As regards our foreign policy, it is no less our interest than our duty to maintain the most friendly relations with other countries.

19. It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

20.The company of 77 gymnasts, dancers, jugglers, magicians, musicians and artists puts together something that is much more than a collection of stunts.

21. Colleges and universities across the nation have decided to do more than talk about the rise in student cheating.

22. It seems then, that these two branches of science are mutually dependent and interacting, and that the so-called division between the pure scientists and applied scientists is more apparent than real.

23. His initial willingness to experiment with reforms stemmed not so much from a love of democracy as from his recognition that without reform, his country and the government would slide toward economic ruin.

24. According to the new school of scientists, science moves forward not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools.

25. Nothing is more problematic for a small group of quite different, unique individuals than to live in close quarters, in close harmony with each other.

26. No issue is more emotion-rousing than food, because no issue is as basic to individual and national survival as food.