161. With socialists¹ demanding an end to‘wage slavery’anarchists singing the praises of the virtues² of dynamite³, middle-of-the-roaders like Samuel Gompers and McGuire.

    162. The quick adoption⁴ of the scheme may have indicated less about the state lawmaker’s respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger.

    163. In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.

    164. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly⁵ were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death.

    165. The statuses we assume often vary with the people we encounter, and change through life.

    166. This means that we fit out actions to those of other people based on a constant mental process of appraisal⁶ and interpretation⁷.

    167. I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainty⁸ and fear of failure.

    168. Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words…”

    169. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made to them by other people.”

    170. Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity.

    171. But it’s easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation⁹ for rewards.

    172. The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant¹⁰.

    173. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the architecture but that too will happen.

    174. As the intelligence of robots increase to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers.

    175. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.

    176. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground vibrations¹¹.

    177. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach, their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.

    178. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently¹², which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

    179. “In Japan, a most competitive society with stronger discipline than ours.” Says Isaac Stern. “children are ready to test their limits every day in many fields, including music.”

    180. What does the phrase ‘learning to use a computer’ mean? It sounds like ‘learning to drive a car’; that is , it sounds as if there is some set of definite skills that, once acquired, enable one to use a computer.

 

    第九部分（161-180句译文）

    161、社会主义者强烈要求结束“薪水奴隶制”，而无政府主义者高唱“炸药”的价值，像Samuel和McGuire这样的中间道路者显得相对温和。 

    162、“劳动日”很快被采纳，更大程度上表明国家法律制定者害怕激起工人阶级的愤怒，并非体现对工人阶级的尊重。

    163、在过去，孩子们对出生和死亡非常熟悉，是他们生活的一部分。现在的孩子也许是从未目睹婴儿的降生和亲人的死亡的第一代美国人。

    164、我们发现那些被公开坦诚地对待的病人在对待死亡的临近和接受死亡的问题上处理得更好。

    165、我们采取的身份是随着接触的人的不同而改变，且一生都在变化。

    166、这意味着我们在不断判断和解释别人的行为的心理过程中进行自己的行为。

    167、我要不断地将梦想付诸实际的测试—尽管这意味着不确定和对失败的恐惧。

    168、一切尝试对多话的小孩的发展追踪从他们说的第一句话开始……

    169、这种自我模仿使他们故意模仿别人对他们说话的声音。

    170、外部奖励，从热情洋溢的话语表扬到冷冰冰的现金，如何影响一个人的动机和创造力，对这一点，心理学家们采取完全不同的观点。

    171、但是如果对绩效差的业绩也进行奖励或者让人们对奖励有太多的预期，是很容易抹杀创造性的。

    172、冰箱对环境的影响是显而易见的，而它对促进人们幸福的贡献却是微不足道的。

    173、装载正确的软件来使它智能化可能要花费我们很长的时间，或者也可以改变它的结构，但同样的情况也会发生。

    174、由于机器人的智能增长到了人脑的程度，加上通过规模经济降低了生产成本，我们可以使用它们来拓展前沿。

    175、在将来，通过新一代人创造的财富和科技，建设一座可以容纳千百万人的人造大型太空站也是可以的。

    176、后来，人们试着把建筑物从其基地上撑起来，在建筑物和地基间灌入橡胶和钢铁以减少地表震动的影响。

    177、如果他们对于自己吹捧的东西不认真对待也不去执行的话，他们的孩子将在糊里糊涂中长大，并且当他们对自己进行一些思考的时候，他们会在情感上有不安全感并认为他们遭受了某种程度的欺骗。

    178、因为所有这些原因，要进行有效读报的话，既要得到你需要的信息又不浪费时间，需要选择和应用良好的阅读技能和自我了解。

    179、“在日本，是一个比我们更有纪律性和竞争性的社会。”Isaac Stern说。“孩子们每天都准备在各个领域内冲刺极限，包括音乐。”

    180、“学习使用计算机”这个短语是什么意思呢？听起来像是“学习驾驶汽车”也就是说，好象里面有一套确定的技能，一旦获得，就会使用计算机了。

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