2014年工程硕士英语复习重点(16)

　　4、Finally,the belief that something permanent transcends us and that our existence has some larger meaning can help us be happier.We need a spiritual or religious faith,or a philosophy of life.——>最后，相信有某种永恒的东西超越我们，相信我们的存在具有某种更大的意义，这可以使我们更幸福。我们需要一种精神或宗教的信仰，或者是一种生活的哲学。

　　5、Six thousand to 10,000 years ago we lacked the ability to store and retrieve by memory the growing sum of survival information;we faced two options:develop new storage-retrieval technology or self-destruct. ——>6千到1万年前，那时我们没有能力靠记忆储存和提取越来越多的生存信息;我们面临两种选择：开发新的储存检索技术或自我毁灭。

　　6、The electronically developed countries are witnessing nothing less than the abandonment of reading and writing ,of written language itself,and,in its place,the recreation of oral culture. ——>电子技术发达的国家正在目睹阅读和写作的全面摒弃，包括对书面语言本身的摒弃，代之而起的是：口语文化的重新塑造。

　　7、Now,judging from a series of presentations at the American Economic Association meetings in Philadelphia last weekend,a burgeoning new field dubbed“neuroeconomics” seems poised to provide fresh insights on how the two horses together produce economic behaviour.——>从上周末在费城召开的美国经济协会会议上的一系列发言中，我们可以看到，目前正兴起一个新的领域，被戏称为“神经经济学”。该研究领域正跃跃欲试地提供一个新的研究视角，说明人类的经济行为是两匹马协同作用的产物。