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1、 现代技术最大进展之一是电子计算机的发明，

2、 Computers are capable of doing extremely complicated work in all branches of learning.

注意一下be capable of的用法 以及表达方式。

电子计算机能在科学界各专业中从事及其复杂的工作。

3、 In the future, automation may enable human beings to enjoy far more leisure than they

do today.

将来，自动化可能使人类享有比目前更多的闲暇。

far+比较级 的用法

4、 The coming of automation is bound to have important social consequences.

自动化的实现必将产生重大的社会影响。

5、 They can never, as it were, lead independent lives, or role the world by making

decisions of their own.

红色部分是虚拟语气。

所以说，计算机决不能独立工作，或由其本身作出决定来“统治世界”。

6、 This will enable people who do not share a common language to talk to each other 使说不同语言的人们能毫无困难地进行交谈或阅读外文书报杂志。

7、 It is impossible to assess the importance of a machine of this sort, for many international 这类机器的重要性是无法评估的，因为许多国际间的误会均由彼此语言不通所致。

8、 Computers are the most efficient servants man has ever had and there is no limit to the

way they can be used to improve our life.

句子分析：Computers are the most efficient servants (that/who) man has ever had and there is no limit to the way (that) they can be used to improved to our life.

红字，表达前途无量的意思。可以说一个事物的发展前景广阔什么的。

第50课 New Year Resolutions

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1. Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of do s and don ts .

至少在大多数人的心里会编排出一份“应做什么”和“不应做什么”的令人生畏的单子。

2. The same old favorites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.