2.Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you want and want the right things. （强调）
【写作技法】用do表强调
【翻译】心理学告诉我们：你一定会得到你想要的东西，如果你知道你想要什么并且想要的是正确的东西。
3. While talking to you， your could-be employer is deciding whether your education， your experience， and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your “wares” and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
4. Spend a certain amount of time each day seeking the employment you wish for， and keep in mind： Securing a job is your job now.
【写作技法】冒号的特殊用法，高度概括或解释说明。
【翻译】每天花一点时间寻找你希望的从事的工作，并且记住：找工作才是当务之急。
5. With the start of BBC World Service Television， millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’s news coverage， as well as listen to it. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune into two BBC television channels， five BBC national radio services and dozens of local radio station.
【写作技法】并列词的用法：as well as不要连接句子，前后可以连接单词或词组。And句子、词组和单词都可以连接。
【注意】（1）A as well as B结构中，强调的是A（2）A and B结构中，两者同等重要
6. It is a remarkable record， stretching back over 70 years， yet the BBC‘s future （prospect） is now in doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization， at least for the time being， but its role， its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation-vide debate in Britain.
7. The debate was launched by the Government， which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC-including ordinary listeners and viewers-to say what was good or bad about the Government， and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
8. But it is the arrival of new satellite channel-funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers’ subscriptions-which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term.
9. In the last half of the nineteenth century “capital” and “labour” were enlarging and perfecting their rival organizations on modern lines.
【写作技法】时间状语开头
【翻译】十九世纪后半叶，“资方”和“劳方”按现代化方式不断扩大和完善各自相对独立的组织。
10. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.
11. The growth of the limited liability company and municipal business had important consequences. Such large， impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class， an elementary in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners； and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.
12. On the other hand “shareholding” meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilization.
【写作技法】转折词的使用
【翻译】另一方面“持股”就意味着休闲和自由，许多维多利亚后期的人将其视为伟大文明的最高目标。
13. The “shareholders” as such had no knowledge of the lives， thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares， and his influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good.
【写作技法】as such承上启下，意思“如上述所指的人或物那样”；词组have no knowledge of“不了解”
14. Indeed the mere size of operations and the numbers of workmen involved rendered such personal relations impossible. Fortunately， however， the increasing power and organization of the trade unions， at least in all skilled trades， enabled the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies who employed them.
15. What account for the great outburst of major inventions in early America-breakthroughs such as the telegraph， the steamboat and the weaving machine？ Among the many shaping factors， I would single out the country‘s excellent elementary school； a labor force that welcome the new technology； the practice of giving premiums to inventors； and above all the American genius for nonverbal， “spatial” thinking about things technological.
16. Why mention the elementary school？ Because thanks to these schools our early mechanics， especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states， were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry.
17. More significantly， they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong-and yet most did little to fight it.
【写作技法】阐述观点句型
【翻译】更意味深长的是，他们认为许多开国元勋明知奴隶制错误，却很少有人试图推翻它。
18. A further stimulus to invention came from the “premium” system， which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it.
【写作技法】表原因
【翻译】对发明创造的另一个刺激因素来自“奖励”制度，它产生于专利制度之前，并且与后者共存许多年。
19. Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation， the American worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology.
20. This nonverbal “spatial” thinking can be just as creative as painting and writing.
【写作技法】运用“比较”结构之一：as---as---
【翻译】这种非语言性“空间”思维方式与绘画和写作一样具有创造性。
21. When all these shaping forces-schools， open attitudes， the premium system， a genius for spatial thinking- interacted with one another on the rich U.S. mainland they produced that American characteristic， emulation. Today that word implies mere imitation. But in earlier times it meant a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.
22. The goal of all will be to try to explain to a confused and often unenlightened citizenry that there are not two equally valid scientific theories for the origin and evolution of universe and life.
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