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For business to say that this is government's job, and that they will cooperate with regulations but otherwise be passive in addressing this threat, is an abrogation of that responsibility.

对于商业说，这是政府的工作，并说它们会配合规定，但这实际上这是被动的面对这个威胁，或说是逃避责任。

If someone has trusted or supported a person or group that later does badly, or who betrays that trust, we say that they "bet on the wrong horse."

如果信任或支持某个人或某个团体，但最后他们却失败了，或者他们背叛了我们的信任，我们就说这个是："压错了宝。"

If someone has trusted or supported a person or group that later does badly, or who betrays that trust, we say that they bet on the wrong horse.

如果有人信任并支持了一个在以后背叛他的人，我们就说他〔们〕"压错了宝"。

Are we to say that his failure to concern himself with grosser patterns is a form of substantive ignorance, or that he merely ignores certain macro patterns that are essential to us for understanding because we cannot grasp the detail: they are, for us, a necessary shorthand and for him, not necessary at all?

我们可以说他对被产生样式的无知是实质的无知吗？

A key issue here concerns the criteria by which we might say that two statements are 'in continuity,' that they are part of a group (keeping in mind that we've rejected all received notions of continuity in the last chapter).

这里的一个关键问题涉及到的标准，我们可以说，两个报表'的连续性，'，他们是A组（请记住，我们已经拒绝了所有收到的连续性概念的最后一章）。

The historians, in reply to that inquiry, lay before us the sayings and doings of some dozens of men in one of the buildings of the city of Paris, summing up those doings and sayings by one word—revolution. Then they give us a detailed biography of Napoleon, and of certain persons favourably or hostilely disposed to him; talk of the influence of some of these persons upon others; and then say that this it is to which that activity is due, and these are its laws.

历史学家回答这一问题时，向我们叙述巴黎城内一座大楼里的几十个人的言行，称这些言行为革命；然后出版拿破仑的，以及同情或敌视他的人物的详细传记，讲述其中一些人对另一些人的影响，说出：这就是这一运动发生的原因，这就是它的规律。

It would probably be no exaggeration to say that not one American citizen out of ten thousand ever sees them or knows that they exist, and yet any one of them, circulated throughout the country, read by the right-thinking, right-feeling men and women of this land, would be of itself a "campaign document" that would initiate a revolution which would not subside until the Indians' wrongs were, so far as is now left possible, righted.

在每一万名美国公民中见到或听说过这些汇报的人还不到一个，这样说也许一点儿也不过分。然而，在全国的那些思维正常情感健全的男人们和女人们中间传阅的每一份汇报，其本身就是一份"游说公文"，它将引起一场革命，这样的革命只有在印地安人得到现在尚不可能获得的平冤昭雪之后才能平息下来。

All this to say that I'm glad filmmaking hasn't become completely ironic. I can enjoy an ironic film as much as the next person, but they usually involve a message of some sort. One that's delivered in a smirkingly clever way that requires little in the way of talent.

所有这些都是说，我很高兴电影制作没有变成完全讽刺艺术，我可以和下一个人一样享受讽刺电影的乐趣，虽然他们经常会被划归到一定级别，技术方面不需要很高的才能。

Tellingly, the inspectors said that when they asked why it is good to be able to read, children were more likely to say that it would help them to do well in tests or get a good job than that reading was enjoyable.

国际观察者说，当他们问孩子们阅读的好处时，他们的回答更多的是阅读对他们的考试有帮助或能帮他们找到一份好工作，而不是阅读是一种享受。

If they accepted that, they were next taken to the golden pheasant, and Helen would say,"I painted the birds myself."

如果他们接受了她的说法，海伦就会带他们到锦鸡跟前，说：&我自己给这些鸟上色的。&

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。