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本文来源：网络收集整理\word可编辑 本文来源：网络收集整理\word可编辑 本文来源：网络收集整理\word可编辑 2020考研英语翻译试题精读(一) 考研英语有许多题目组成，方便大家及时了解，下面由我为你精心准备了“2020考研英语:翻译试题精读(一)”，持续关注本站将可以持续获取更多的考试资讯! 2020考研英语:翻译试题精读(一) 科学与技术 The meanings of “science”and “technology”have changed significantly from one generation to another. More similarities than differences, however, can be found between the terms, (46)Both science and technology imply a thinking process, both are concerned with causal relationships in the material world, and both employ an experimental methodology that results in empirical demonstrations that can be verified by repetition. (47)Science, at least in theory, is less concerned with the practicality of its results and more concerned with the development of general laws, but in practice science and technology are inextricably involved with each other. The varying interplay of the two can be observed in the historical development of such practitioners as chemists, engineers, physicists, astronomers, carpenters, potters, and many other specialists. Differing educational requirements, social status, vocabulary, methodology, and types of rewards, as well as institutional objectives and professional goals, contribute to such distinctions as can be made between the activities of scientists and technologists but throughout history the practitioners of “pure”science have made many practical as well as theoretical contributions. (48) Indeed, the concept that science provides the ideas for technological innovations and that pure research is therefore essential for any significant advancement in industrial civilization is essentially a myth. Most of the greatest changes in industrial civilization cannot be traced to the laboratory. Fundamental tools and processes in the fields of mechanics, chemistry, astronomy, metallurgy, and hydraulics were developed before the