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Ravitch's latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits.

拉维奇的最新著作《落后：一个世纪失败的学校改革》追溯了我们学校中反智主义的根源，结论是它们绝不是对美国人厌恶智力追求的一种平衡。

Even before Alan Greenspan's admission that America's red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves.

甚至在艾伦·格林斯潘承认美国炽热的经济正在降温之前，许多工薪阶层就已经自己看到了经济放缓的迹象。

Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control.

鼓励孩子拒绝精神生活使他们容易受到剥削和控制。

Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.

由于对语言与思维的关系感兴趣，沃尔夫提出了语言结构决定社会中习惯性思维结构的观点。

Consumers seem only mildly concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects even as they do some modest belt-tightening.

消费者似乎只是略微担忧，并未恐慌，并且许多人表示即使他们进行一些适度的紧缩开支，他们对经济的长期前景仍然保持乐观。

For example, changes in the economy that lead to fewer job opportunities for youth and rising unemployment in general make gainful employment increasingly difficult to obtain.

例如，经济方面的变化导致年轻人就业机会减少，整体失业率上升，这使得有收益的就业越来越难以获得。

Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half.

因此，美国总统和副总统的姓氏分别以B和C开头；并且乔治·布什的26位前任（包括他的父亲）的姓氏在字母表的前半部分，而在后半部分只有16位。

Theories centering on the individual suggest that children engage in criminal behavior because they were not sufficiently penalized for previous misdeeds or that they have learned criminal behavior through interaction with others.

以个人为中心的理论表明，儿童从事犯罪行为是因为他们先前的不当行为没有受到足够的惩罚，或者他们通过与他人互动学会了犯罪行为。

The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.

这些新被描述的语言常常与经过充分研究的欧洲和东南亚语言如此显著地不同，以至于一些学者甚至指责博厄斯和萨丕尔编造他们的数据。

Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again.

相反，最佳策略是将代理用作一种提示服务，以了解特定数据库中的工作；当你收到电子邮件时，将其视为再次检查数据库的提醒。

Hofstadter says our country's educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise."

霍夫施塔特说，我们国家的教育体系被那些“欢快而好斗地宣称他们敌视智力，并急于认同那些智力前景最差的孩子”的人掌控。

This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.

对于那些尚未意识到这种不利因素的人来说，这指的是对那些姓氏以字母表下半部分字母开头的人的歧视。

All these conditions tend to increase the probability of a child committing a criminal act, although a direct causal relationship has not yet been established.

所有这些条件往往会增加儿童实施犯罪行为的可能性，尽管直接的因果关系尚未被确立。

Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire.

根据霍夫施塔特的观点，智力不同于天生的智力，一种我们不情愿地欣赏的品质。

The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.

希腊人认为语言的结构与思维过程有某种联系，这种观点在人们意识到语言可以有多么多样化之前很久就在欧洲扎根了。

More families consist of one-parent households or two working parents; consequently, children are likely to have less supervision at home than was common in the traditional family structure.

更多的家庭由单亲家庭或双职工父母组成；因此，与传统家庭结构中常见的情况相比，孩子们在家可能受到更少的监督。

For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time.

对于零售商而言，他们去年在感恩节和圣诞节之间获得了24%的收入，这种谨慎的做法正出现在一个关键的时期。

Many theories concerning the causes of juvenile delinquency (crimes committed by young people) focus either on the individual or on society as the major contributing influence.

许多关于青少年犯罪（由年轻人所犯的罪行）起因的理论，要么将个人，要么将社会视为主要的促成影响因素。

Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: "Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility," says one expert.

例如，缩小你的标准可能对你不利：“每次你回答一个问题，你就排除了一种可能性，”一位专家说。

But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks.

但是尽管一个搜索代理为雷德曼工作，职业专家看到了缺点。

When CareerSite's agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs—those it considers the best matches.

例如，当CareerSite的代理向那些已注册其服务的人发送消息时，它只包含三个潜在的工作岗位——那些它认为最匹配的岗位。

"I struck gold," says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.

“我挖到宝了，”雷德曼说，他给雇主发了电子邮件简历，并获得了一家公司的内部法律顾问职位。

Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read—so he can preserve his innate goodness.

它的主人公避免被文明化——去上学和学习阅读——以便他能够保持他天生的善良。

Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

甚至我们的学校也是我们送孩子去接受实用教育的地方——不是为了知识而追求知识。

In Manhattan, "there's a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses," says broker Barbara Corcoran.

经纪人芭芭拉·科科伦说：“在曼哈顿，400万至1000万美元区间正出现新一轮淘金热，这主要是由华尔街奖金推动的。”

Some form of discrimination is too subtle to recognize.

某种形式的歧视太微妙而无法识别。

School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted.

学校仍然是一个智力受到怀疑的地方。

Native American languages are indeed different, so much so in fact that Navajo could be used by the US military as a code during World War II to send secret messages.

美洲原住民语言确实不同，事实上差异如此之大，以至于纳瓦霍语在第二次世界大战期间被美国军方用作发送秘密信息的密码。

Although both Sapir and Whorf emphasized the diversity of languages, Sapir himself never explicitly supported the notion of linguistic determinism.

尽管萨丕尔和沃尔夫都强调语言的多样性，但萨丕尔本人从未明确支持语言决定论的观点。

Only recently did linguists begin the serious study of languages that were very different from their own.

直到最近语言学家才开始认真研究那些与他们自己的语言非常不同的语言。

The more ventures, the more chances.

风险越多，机会越多。

The resulting discontent may in turn lead more youths into criminal behavior.

由此产生的不满可能反过来导致更多年轻人走向犯罪行为。

Employers wouldn't mind a few fewer bubbles in the job market.

雇主不会介意就业市场上少一些泡沫。

All theories, however, are tentative and are subject to criticism.

然而，所有理论都是试探性的，并且容易受到批评。

Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder.

尽管受雇情况愉快，雷德曼仍在凯业必达保留他的代理人。

But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting, filing or polishing as many nails as she'd like to, either.

但是这位47岁的美甲师也没有像她希望的那样修剪、锉磨或抛光那么多指甲。

At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names.

在幼儿学校第一年开始时，老师们按字母顺序从前排安排学生座位，以便更容易记住他们的名字。

When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isn't biting her nails just yet.

当谈到经济放缓时，Ellen Spero还没有到束手无策的地步。

Getting a table at Manhattan's hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant used to be impossible.

在曼哈顿热门的新开 Alain Ducasse 餐厅订到一张桌子过去是不可能的。

The alphabet is to blame for the failure of Zoë Zysman.

字母表应该为佐伊·齐斯曼的失败负责。

Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last year's pace.

专家们说，假日销售额已经比去年的速度下降了7%。

At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ.

在大学毕业典礼上，姓氏以ABC开头的学生们自豪地先拿到他们的奖项；当轮到姓氏以Zysmans开头的学生时，大多数人简直都在打瞌睡了。

"I don't know if other clients are going to abandon me, too," she says.

“我不知道其他客户是否也会抛弃我，”她说。

Most of her clients spend $12 to $50 weekly, but last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up.

她的大多数客户每周花费12到50美元，但上个月两位长期客户突然不再露面。

Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies' names.

顾客经常非常关注公司的名称。