翻译中要考的长句

Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the

ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel

unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As

Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never

being.”

White Star Liner Titanic

The saga of the White Star Liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on

its maiden voyage in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 passangers to their death, has

been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song.

Views of the railings where doomed passengers and crew members stood

evoked images of moonless night 74 years ago when the great ship slipped

beneath the waves.

They were released at a Washington press conference conducted by Marine

Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who led the teams from the Woods Hole

Ocanographic Institution that found the Titanic last Setember and revisited it this

July.

Punishment

The only arguable plea for capital punishment is the right of society to

retribution in this world with the prospect of life in another, but since what used to

seem to the great majority of civilized humanity the assurance of another life

beyond the grave has come to seem to more and more people less certain, a

feeling for the value of human life has become deeper and more widespread.

Person of the Year

Sept. 11 delivered both a shock and a surprise—the attack, and our response

to it—and we can argue forever over which mattered more. There has been so

much talk of the goodness that erupted that day that we forget how unprepared

we were for it. We did not expect much from a generation that had spent its

middle age examining all the ways it failed to measure up to the one that had

come before—all fat, no muscle, less a beacon to the world than a bully, drunk on

blessings taken for granted.

It was tempting to say that Sept. 11 changed all that, just as it is tempting to

say that every hero needs a villain, and goodness needs evil as its grinding stone.

But try looking a widow in the eye and talking about all the good that has come of

this. It may not be a coincidence, but neither it is a partnership: good does not

need evil, we owe no debt to demons, and the attack did not make us better. It was

an occasion to discover what we already were. “ Maybe the purpose of all this,”

New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at a funeral for a friend, “ is to find out if

America today is as strong as when we fought for our independence or when we

fought for ourselves as a Union to end slavery or as strong as our fathers and

grandfathers who fought to rid the world of Nazism”. The terrorists, he argues,

were counting on our cowardice. They’ve learned a lot about us since then. And

so have we.

For leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves,

for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without

being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all

around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is TIME’s 2001 Person of the Year.

Newt Gingrich

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt

Gingrich* belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year--- ruthlessly,

brilliantly, obnoxiously*---he worked at hammering together inevitabilities— a

balanced U.S government budget, for one. Not long ago, the idea of eliminating

the deficit was a marginal; we’ll get-to-it-someday priority. Today, because of

Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced budget plan will come to

pass, but when.

A sometimes unlovely blur of headlong energy and pinwheeling*, roughhouse

creativity, the Speaker has transformed both the House of Representatives and the

speakership into an unprecedented instrument of personal and political power. It

has been an amazing performance and a display of discipline that is either

impressive or scary, depending on one’s sympathies.

Millionaire

The millionaire class, a small but growing one into which any of us may be

flung tomorrow by the accidents of commerce, is perhaps the most neglected in

the community.

Whilst the poorest have their Rag Fair, a duly organized and busy market in

Houndsditch, where you can buy a boot for a penny, you may search the world in

vain for the market where the £50 boot, the special dear line of hats at forty

guineas, the cloth of gold bicycling suit, and the Cleopatra claret, four pearls to the

bottle, can be purchased wholesale.

Thus the unfortunate millionaire has the responsibility of prodigious wealth

without the possibility of enjoying himself more than any ordinary rich man.

Indeed, in many things he cannot enjoy himself more than many poor men do, nor

even so much; for a drum major is better dressed; a trainer’s stable lad often

rides a better horse; the first-class carriage is shared by office boys taking their

young ladies out for the evening; everybody who goes down to Brighton for

Sunday rides in the Pullman car; and of what use is it to be able to pay for a

peacock’s brain sandwich when there is nothing to be had but ham or beef?

A man with an income of £25 a year can multiply his comfort beyond all

calculation by doubling his income. A man with £50 a year can at least quadruple

his comfort by doubling his income. Probably up to even £250 a year doubled

income means doubled comfort. After that the increment of comfort grows less in

proportion to the increment of income until a point is reached at which the victim

is satiated and even surfeited with everything that money can procure. To expect

him to enjoy another hundred thousand pounds because men like money, is

exactly as if you were to expect a confectioner’s shop-boy to enjoy two hours

more work a day because boys are fond of sweets.

高口

Japan's once enviable jobless rate will soar to double-digit levels if—and the

warning is a big one—firms opt for drastic Western-style layoffs to boost profits.

While Japan's life-time employment system is visibly unravelling, many economists

still doubt whether a scenario of soaring joblessness will occur, given that

economic incentives to slash payrolls clash with social and political pressures to

save jobs. A kinder, gentler approach to restructuring would soften the social

instability many fear would result from doubling thejobless rate, already at a

record high.

如果各公司断然采取西立国家裁员的做法以增加利润，日本一度令人羡慕的失业率将

上升至两位数。虽然日本的终生雇佣制明显地在解体，但是鉴于大幅度裁员刺激经济的动

机同要求保留工作岗位的社会压力和政治压力相冲突，许多经济学家仍无法断定日本是否

会出现失业率急剧上升的局面。以一个较为仁兹和温和的做法调整经济，可以缓解社会的

动荡不安，因为许多人担心早已创记录的失业率 再增长一倍就会导致社会不安定。

The biggest problem of the third industrial revolution is as easy to explain as is

difficult to solve. Technology is creating a global economy that is rapidly

supplanting our old national economies. National governments cannot control

this new economy, yet no one, least of all Americans, wants to create the form of

global government that might be able to control it. As a result we were going to be

living in a fundamentally unmanaged economic system. The difficulties of

containing the 1997 Asian economic meltdown are just the first of many such

difficulties we can expect.

national governments, which used to worry about managing and maintaining

their economic systems, are slowly being pushed out of business. Changes in

global finance overwhelm all but the largest governments. Governments have lost

much of their influence over the movement of information and capital. They

cannot control who crosses their borders either physically or culturally.

Conversely, the power of global businesses is growing with companies-ability

to move to the most advantageous locations and play countries off against one

another in bidding for attractive investment projects.第三次工业革命最大的问题既容

易说明，又难以解决。技术正在创立一种迅速取代我 们陈旧的国民经济体制的全球经济。

各国政府无法控制这种新的经济，也没有人想要建立 可以控制这种经济的全球性政府形

式，1997年亚洲的经济灾难以得到遏制，只不过是我们 可以预料的许多此类困难中的第

一件难事。

各国政府过去操心的是管理和维持各 的经济制度，现在正慢慢地变得无所作为。全球

金融的变化，唯一难不倒的是世界上最大的几个政府。各国政府对信息和资本流动的 影响

已丧失大半。它们无法控制外人越过其国境，亦无法控制外来文化的侵入。

相反，随着公司有能力迁往最有利的地方，挑动国与国之间为赢得有吸引力投资项目

相互对阵，全 球性大公司的权力正在增长。

The effect of governmental expenditures on the total economy varies with

both the level of utilization of labor and capital in the economy at the time of the

expenditure, and the segment of the economy which receives the expenditure. If

the economy as a whole or the segment of the economy which is the focus of the

expenditure is operating at capacity or close to capacity, then the expenditure's

major effects will tend to be inflationary, and will not generate much employment

of capital and labor. If the economy or sector is operating at much less than full

employment, the expenditure will produce a genuine (non-inflationary) rise in the

GNP.

政府投资对于整个经济的影响作用，受到以下两个因素的制约。第一，政府投资之时

劳动力和资本的利用 情况；第二，接受投资的经济部分。如果整个经济或接受主要投资的

经济部分充分或接近充分发挥效能，那么政府投资的效力不会很大，所以资本和劳动力也

不会得到充分利用。而如果经济潜能并未充分发挥，政府投资则会真正促进GNP 的增长。