翻译 SAT长难句11-30.doc

11.Perhaps one can say with more than mere intuition that certain skills do atrophy through not being used, that an increasing reliance on electronics to mediate our apprehension of the world does lead to the loss of certain sensitivities, and that to lose any sensitivity or awareness is limiting and unwise. 12.if there is a scientific rather than a sentimental answer, it might be one analogous to recognizing the paramount importance of maintaining the diversity of species. the more the world becomes politically, economically, and culturally centralized, the more homogenized its ways of living, the more the dangers of sameness become apparent. 13to take a notorious example, the European trade regulations restricting the varieties of fruit and vegetable seeds permitted for sale within the European community have for years been viewed as potentially disastrous by scientists. 14 deception of an innocent kind is their intention; asked if the picture is genuine, few of them, I imagine, would lie. Nor would they be wise to. 15nevertheless, despite the overwhelmingly conservation assumptions of most Americans, we are in fact in the throes of a genuine and dramatic revolution in our culture, and it behooves us to understand it before passing judgment. 16in academic circles, I linger on the fringes where the warmth of the fire never reaches, an irreverent outsider, a loner who prefers fieldwork to the university, and general readership to academic journals. 17although we were at the age when one always had the need, instinct, and immodesty of inflicting on one another everything that swarms on one’s head and elsewhere, nothing had gotten through Sandro’s shell of reserve, nothing of his inner world, nothing save a few occasional, dramatically truncated hints. 18not only are celebrities the protagonists of our news, the subjects of our daily discourse, and the repositories of our values, but they have also embedded themselves so deeply in our consciousness that many indivi