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Knowledge and progress

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(1). Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world?

为什么进步这个概念在当今的世界如此令人担忧呢?

(2). Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us and is becoming more and more manifest.

无疑是因为在我们的周围确实正在出现一种特殊进步,而其特殊性显得曰益明显。

(3). Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality, it has made extraordinary progress the accumulation of knowledge.

虽然人类在智力和道德方面均无普遍的提高,然而在知识积累方面已取得了非凡的进步。

(4). Knowledge began to increase as soon as the thoughts of one individual could be communicated to another by means of speech.

自人们的思想可借语言进行相互交流之日起,知识便日益增加。

(5). With the invention of writing, a great advance was made, for knowledge could then be not only communicated but also stored.

由于书写的发明,知识的增多加快了步伐,因为此时知识不仅可以口头交流,还能以文字储存起来。

(6). Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound-interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing.

利用图书馆使教育成为可能,而教育反过来使图书馆藏书日趋丰富:知识是遵循复利法则增长的,印刷的发明使增长明显加快。

(7). All this was comparatively slow until, with the coming science, the tempo was suddenly raised.

上面的这些进展都是比较缓慢的,直到出现了科学,增长的速度才突飞猛进。

(8). Then knowledge began to be accumulated according to a systematic plan.

于是,知识便开始按计划系统化积累起来。

(9). The trickle became a stream; the stream has now become a torrent.

涓涓细流汇成小溪,小溪现在已成了滔滔洪流。

(10). Moreover, as soon as new knowledge is acquired, it is now turned to practical account.

而且现在新知识一经掌握便马上应用于实际．

(11). What is called ’modern civilization’ is not the result of a balanced development of all man’s nature, but of accumulated knowledge applied to practical life.

所谓的"现代文明",不是人类全部本性均衡发展的结果,而是积累的知识应用于实际生活的产物。

(12). The problem now facing humanity is: What is going to be done with all this knowledge?

人类面临的问题是该怎样来利用这些知识?

(13). As is so often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used equally for good or evil.

人们常说知识是一把双刃刀,它既能造福人类,又会给人类带来祸害。

(14). It is now being used indifferently for both.

现在,知识正被无分轩轾地用于这两个方面。

(15). Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that of gunners using science to shatter men’s bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use it to restore them?

例如,炮手利用科学去杀伤人体,而就在附近,战地的外科医生则利用科学为受伤者医治创口,难道还有比这更为可怕、怪诞的景象吗7

(16). We have to ask ourselves very seriously what will happen if this twofold use of knowledge, with its ever-increasing power, continues.

我们不得不十分严肃地问一问自己:威力日益增强的知识,如果仍然象把双刃刀一样继续下去的话,将产生怎样的后果呢?

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[00:08.93]In what two areas have people made no ’progress’ at all?
 [00:15.87]Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world?
 [00:21.41]Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us
 [00:27.63]and is becoming more and more manifest.
 [00:30.31]Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality,
 [00:36.16]it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation of knowledge.
 [00:41.37]Knowledge began to increase as soon as the thoughts of one individual
 [00:45.69]could be communicated to another by means of speech.
 [00:50.02]With the invention of writing,a great advance was made,
 [00:53.67]for knowledge could then be not only communicated but also stored.
 [00:58.66]Libraries made education possible,and education in its turn added to libraries:
 [01:05.39]the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound interest law,
 [01:10.23]which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing.
 [01:14.03]All this was comparatively slow until,with the coming of science,
 [01:19.53]the tempo was suddenly raised.
 [01:21.95]Then knowledge began to be accumulated according to a systematic plan.
 [01:27.44]The trickle became a stream: the stream has now become a torrent.
 [01:32.98]Moreover,as soon as new knowledge is acquired,it is now turned to practical account.
 [01:39.18]What is called ’modern civilization’
 [01:42.01]is not the result of a balanced development of all man’s nature,
 [01:46.39]but of accumulated knowledge applied to practical life.
 [01:51.47]The problem now facing humanity is:
 [01:54.53]What is going to be done with all this knowledge?
 [01:58.12]As is so often pointed out,knowledge is a two-edged weapon
 [02:02.97]which can be used equally for good or evil.
 [02:06.88]It is now being used indifferently for both.
 [02:10.65]Could any spectacle,for instance,be more grimly whimsical
 [02:14.99]than that of gunners using science to shatter men’s bodies
 [02:19.84]while,close at hand,surgeons use it to restore them?
 [02:24.72]We have to ask ourselves very seriously
 [02:27.64]what will happen if this twofold use of knowledge,
 [02:31.66]with its ever-increasing power,continues.