英语翻译Unit 10 Reading Practice; College English 3 KNOWLEDGE AS

英语翻译
Unit 10 Reading Practice; College English 3
KNOWLEDGE AS FUEL
A.Toffler
The rate at which man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe has been spiraling upward for 10,000 years.The rate took a sharp upward leap with the invention of writing,but even so it remained painfully slow over centuries of time.The next great leap forward in knowledge-acquisitions did not occur until the invention of movable 无效 in the fifteenth century by Gutenberg and others.Prior to 1500,by the most optimistic estimates,Europe was producing books at a rate of 1,000 titles per year.This means,give or take a bit,that it would take a full century to produce a library of 100,000 titles.By 1950,four and a half centuries later,the rate had accelerated so sharply that Europe was producing 120,000 titles a year.What once took a century now took only ten months.By 1960,a single decade later,the rate had made another significant jump,so that a century's work could be completed in seven and a half months.And,by the mid-sixties,the output of books on a world scale,Europe included,approached the prodigious figure of 1,000 titles per day.
One can hardly argue that every book is a net gain for the advancement of knowledge.Nevertheless,we find that the accelerative curve in book publication does,in fact,crudely parallel the rate at which man discovered new knowledge.For example,prior to Gutenberg only 11 chemical elements were known.Antimony the 12th,was discovered at about the time he was working on his invention.It was fully 200 years since the 11th,arsenic,had been discovered.Had the same rate of discovery continued,we would by now have added only two or three additional elements to the periodic table since Gutenberg.Instead,in the 450 years after his time,some seventy additional elements were discovered.And since 1900 we have been isolating the remaining elements not at a rate of one every two centuries,but of one every three years.
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知识作为汽车燃料
答：托夫勒
率,其中男子已被储存有用的知识,自己和宇宙已螺旋上升为1.0万年.率,采取了大幅上涨的飞跃,一起发明了写作,但即使这样,它仍然是痛苦的缓慢,几百年的时间.未来大跃进,在知识的收购并没有出现,直到发明动产无效,在十五世纪由古腾堡等.之前,1500年,由最乐观的估计,欧洲生产的书籍率1000本以上的书籍,每年.这意味着,或采取了一点,它会采取全面的世纪,以产生一个图书馆100000冠军.1950年,四年半世纪后,率急剧加速,所以,欧洲是生产12.00万职称一年.是什么,一旦发生一个世纪,现在只花了十个月.到1960年,一个单一的十年后,利率已作出的又一重大跳转,使一个世纪的工作可以完成,并在7个半月.和,由60年代中期,输出的图书就在世界范围内,包括欧洲,接近prodigious的数字,1000本以上的书籍,每天.
一个难以争辩说每一本书是一个净增益为提高知识.不过,我们认为加速曲线在图书出版确实,事实上,粗制滥造平行的速度,这名男子发现新的知识.举例来说,前古腾堡只有11个化学元素被称为.锑12日,被发现在大约的时间,他的工作对他的发明.它充分二百年以来,第十一届,砷,已被发现.有相同的发现率继续,我们会由现在只增加两个或三个额外的元素,以元素周期表以来,古腾堡.相反,在450年后,他的时间,一些70额外的元素被发现.和1900年以来,我们一直孤立,其余元素不会在率每两百年,但一个每3年.
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