ISSUE 分类题库【1】耽误之急与百年大计

3、"It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations."
227、与其花钱进行可能有助于后代的长期性研究，还不如把钱花在迫在眉睫，已经存在的社会问题上。

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56"Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future."
36、政府应该把更多的注意力放在解决当务之急，而不是试图解决将来预期的问题上。

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20"National governments should devote more of their social programs and services to children than to adults."
244、任何一个国家的政府都应该为孩子而不是为成人建设更多的社会项目和服务。

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31"Money spent on research is almost always a good investment, even when the results of that research are controversial."
11、花在研究上的资金基本上都是不错的投资，即使研究的结果是有争议的。

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44"Government should not fund any scientific research whose consequences, either medical or ethical, are unclear."
24、政府不应该资助任何后果不明的科学研究，无论是医学方面的还是伦理方面的。

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190"As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—when one considers all the potential uses of such money."
170、一旦人们陷于饥饿、失业或者缺乏谋生的基本技能，运用公共资源去扶持艺术是很不恰当的――并且甚至是残忍的――尤其明知这些资金所有可能的用途。

（钱用于满足生存还是满足艺术要求）
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121"At various times in the geological past, many species have become extinct as a result of natural, rather than human, processes. Thus, there is no justification for society to make extraordinary efforts, especially at a great cost in money and jobs, to save endangered species."
101、在过去不同的地质时期，许多的物种因为自然作用而非人类行为而灭绝。

因此，人
类社会为了挽救濒危物种而付出的巨大努力，尤其是以大量的资金和工作机会为代价，这样做是毫无道理的。

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242"Societies should try to save every plant and animal species, regardless of the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being."
222、社会应该以不计人类的努力、时间和金钱为代价，尝试挽救每一个动植物物种。

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211"Any decision-whether made by government, by a corporation, or by an individual person-must take into account future conditions more than present conditions."
191、任何一个决定，无论它来自于政府、公司还是个人，都必须更多地考虑将来的情况而不是现在的情况。

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193"It is not the headline-making political events but the seldom-reported social tranformations that have the most lasting significance."
173、真正具有长远意义的，不是那些被炒作的政治事件，而是那些鲜有报道的社会变化。

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244"Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when they claim to admire them."
224、大多数社会都没把最伟大的思想家当回事，虽然有时候这些社会自称是求才若渴的。

118"In any field of endeavor—the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, industry, etc.—it is not the attainment of a goal that matters, but rather the ideas and discoveries that are encountered on the way to the goal."
98、在所有的物质领域中――科学、人文科学、社会科学、工业等等――能否达到目的并不重要，而在争取达到目的的过程中获得的想法和发现才更重要。

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64"Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it."
44、很多人懂得如何去获取成功，但是很少有人知道如何最好得去利用成功。

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