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非谓语结构 The consumers would be able to select their view of the match [on a gigantic, flat screen] (occupying the whole of one wall), (with images of a clarity) (which cannot be foreseen at present). 消费者将能够在巨大的平板屏幕前选择他们喜欢的比赛节目，这个屏幕占据了整整一堵墙的面积，并有着当前不可预测清晰度的图像。 [viewer电视观众，spectator现场观众；clarity n.清晰度] Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs. // Others are reasonable consequences (of particular advances) (in science) (being to some extent self-accelerating). 这些原因中，有些是来自社会需求完全合理的结果，而有些则是由于科学在某种程度上自我加速而产生的特定发展的必然结果。 [consequence ①（贬）后果②（褒）意义、重要性 a man of consequence重要人物 ③（中）结果；advance = progress；some①一些②某个，some extent 由于extent是单数，为在某种程度上，to some extent=to some degree 注意介词to的搭配] This temptation (to cover the distance) (between himself and the reader), (to study his image in the sight of those) (who do not know him), can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please. 试图消除他与读者的隔阂或试图用不了解他的人的视角来研究他的人物形象，这种诱惑可能成为他毁灭的原因，因为他已经开始为取悦他人而创作了。 [temptation 诱惑；undoing 毁灭、取消；please ①v.请②vt.使高兴、取悦 In ight of SB. 用某人的立场或观点来看。 ?To cover the distance between A and B,消除A与B间的距离。 (Twenty or thirty pages of) information (handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925) would have been sufficient to change the course of world history. 如果在1925年前后把这20-30页的信息交给当时任何一个世界列强将足已改变世界历史的进程。 The only meals (regularly taken together in Britain these days) are at the weekend, among rich families (struggling to retain something of the old symbol of togetherness). 当今在英国，有规律一起进餐的仅有在周末的富裕家庭中，他们努力保持某些古老而象征团结的东西。 [struggle ①奋斗、努力②挣扎；symbol →symbolize 转译] In this way, we have learned all (that we know of the laws of astronomy, or of the habits of the social insects), let us say. 例如，用这种方法，我们完全掌握了天文学的规律和昆虫群居的习性。 Im usually fairly skeptical about any research that concludes (that people are either happier or unhappier or more or less certain of themselves than they were 50 years ago. 有些研究得出结论认为，现在的人们相比50年前的时候（如出现比较，可将比较对象先提出来）要么更幸福要么更不幸福，或者对自己要么自信要么不那么自信，