新概念英语第四册以及范文中的好句子

1. Both positive and negative effects among persons in Western society call for a balance in which there are both specialists and generalists.

2. Each person can only hold enough knowledge to add one small rung to the ladder.

3. Simply put, without specialists, our society would find itself bogged down in the Sargasso sea of information overload.

4. Education is one if the key words of our time. A man without an education, many us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.

5. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states ‘invest’ in institutions of learning to get back ‘interest’ in the form of a large group of enlightened young man and women who are potential leaders.

6. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully work out, punctuated by text-books --- whose purchasable wells of wisdom --- what would civilization be like without its benefits?

7. We would lay less stress on ‘facts and figures’ and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.

8. primitive cultures 原始文化 ；spiritual outlook 精神面貌；

9. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all.

10. This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the ‘happy few’ during the past century.

11. Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.

12. There is none of the hurry which, in our society, often hampers the full development of a growing personality.

13. No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, and no father is confronted with his inability to ‘buy’ an education for his children.

14. practical experience of …亲身经历。 e.g. sb. have practical experience of noise

15. On the other hand those who dislike noise will sometimes use most inadequate evidence to support their pleas for a quieter society.

16. One allegation often made is that noise produce mental illness.

17. Now the snag of this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.

18. It is almost always due to some very special circumstances that traces of land animals survive.

19. This is a skeptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has been weaken, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of the medicine remains the same as theirs.

20. In most parts of the world, the relationship between population and resources is already unfavorable and will probably become even more unfavorable in the future.

21. This growing poverty in the midst of growing poverty constitutes a permanent menace to peace.

22. An unfavorable relationship between numbers and resources tends to make the earning of a living almost intolerable difficult.

23. Labor is more abundant than goods, and the individual is compelled to work long hours for little pay.

24. Moreover, in any country where population presses hard upon the nature resources, the general economic situation is apt to be so precarious that government control of capital and labor, production and consumption, becomes inevitable.

25. It is always wiser and saver to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.

26. In Britain, Calder Hall on the cast of Cumberland first made its contribution to the National Electricity grid in 1957.

27. Atomic power is associated in the public mind with the destructive force of atom bombs and partly for this

reason, though it is claimed that there is no danger to be associated with atomic power stations, they are being sited away from popular centers.

28. The present position is that …

29. By way of contrast, … ； for the purpose of …

30. We sometimes refer to electricity, gas or patrol as if they were the actual source of power, forgetting that electricity must be generated by the consumption of coal or oil or by the utilization of water power.

31. This increases the expense of government, and reduces correspondingly the amount of economic resource that could be used to developing the country.

32. This may be illustrated by comparing the position of a nation with that of a private business enterprise.

33. Such administrative overhead in a business is analogous to the cost of government in a nation.

34. If they can each be trusted to take such responsibilities, and to exercise such initiative as falls within their sphere, then administrative overhead will be low.

35. It is precisely the same with a nation.

36. A disunited nation therefore has to incur unduly high costs of government.

37. we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigor and resistance …

38. differ (little) from person to person

39. so that there are heavy odds in favor of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty

40. , like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes.

41. But a watch could never repair itself --- it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction.

42. After millennia of growth so slow that each generation hardly noticed it, the cities are suddenly racing off in every direction.

43. There is no reason to believe that this pace will slacken.

44. swallow up … 淹没 e.g. As technology gradually swallows up all forms of work, …

45. This enormous increase will go ahead whatever we do, and we have to remember that the new cities devour space.

46. The car also has a curious ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility.

47. This combination of very high density of population, goods and services, and machines, all increasing with almost brutal speed, does account for some really antisocial tendencies in modern urban growth.

48. He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the happiness which they carve.

49. But the plight of the world compels his unwilling attention, and when he sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known.

50. All the same, the balloon has much to be said in its favor, since it can at least carry heavy equipment above most of the atmospheric mass --- thus eliminating blurring and unsteadiness of the image.

51. Yet there is little resemblance between these crude vehicles and a modern scientific balloon, which has by now became a importance research tool.

52. In mediaeval times river were the veins of the body politic as well as economic.

53. Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle.

54. This is supposed to induce pleasurable sensations in the elephant, and its effects are reinforced by the use of endearing epithets.

55. Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace.

56. As a matter of fact it is the other way around.

57. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.

58. Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs.

59. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.

60. It is only in the study of man himself that the major social sciences have substituted the study of one local variation, that of Western civilization.

61. Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.

62. Now, for the first time, man can reasonably begin to think that life can be something more than a grim struggle for survival.

63. Yet, in the West, science and technology have made it possible for us to have a plentiful supply of food, produced by only a fraction of the labor that was necessary even a few decades ago