1 Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
应该鼓励年轻人追寻长期的、现实的目标,而不是寻求短期的声名。
2 Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
政府不应该资助任何后果不明的科学研究。
3 Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.
学院和大学应该要求所有的教员拿出时间,参与学术界以外与教学科目相关的领域工作。
4 Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
了解过去不能帮助人们在现在做重要的决定。
5 In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
在这个媒体无孔不入的时代,当今任何社会已经不再可能将任何在世的人标榜为英雄人物。
6 We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
相比意见不同的人来说,通常,我们从意见相同的人那里学的更多。
7 The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
了解当代文化最有效的方式是分析当代年轻人的潮流。
8 People’s attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole.
人们的态度更多是由即时环境决定,而不是社会整体环境。
9 Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Reason: Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
结论:最能说明辩论效果的是,让持有相反观点的人信服。
原因:面对疑问和他人相反的观点,只有一个人为某观点辩护时,他才能发现某观点的价值所在。
10 Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
当有公民为饥饿和失业所困时,政府需要中止对艺术的资助。
