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n. 人类，人性，人情12 次
“Yet the combined consequences of suppression and climate change have eroded humanity’s ability to suppress fires, particularly those that ignite under the most dangerous weather conditions.”
“然而，灭火和气候变化的共同后果削弱了人类扑灭火灾的能力，尤其是那些在最危险的天气条件下燃起的火灾。”
But demonstrating the efficacy of science will be crucial if we are to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.
但如果我们要解决人类面临的最大挑战，展示科学的效用将至关重要。
To put it another way: How can we make sure that the thinking of intelligent machines reflects humanity’s highest values?
换句话说：我们如何确保智能机器的思维体现人类的最高价值观？
Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity’s view of the cosmos.
围绕三十米望远镜（TMT）的建设爆发了抗议活动，这座巨型天文台有望彻底改变人类对宇宙的认识。
The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.
编辑《世界新闻报》的目的不是促进读者理解，不是公正地报道，也不是展现任何共同的人性。
Common humanity is central to news reporting.
共同的人性是新闻报道的核心。
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Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of fulfilment and opportunity for all.
科学技术将治愈人类的一切弊病，让所有人都过上充实而充满机遇的生活。
You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.
你甚至可能会忍不住认为人类没有什么未来可期待了。
Science, Technology and Humanity.
科学、技术与人类。
Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers.
人类拥有消除饥饿所需的农业技术手段，从转基因作物到人工化肥。
Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.
当然，正是这些非必需的东西界定了人类文化，并最终界定了人之为人的意义。下载和消费文化需要高超的技能，但若不能超越下载，就等于剥夺了自己身上人性的一个决定性组成部分。
If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed.
如果环境总是决定人们的生活和前途，那么人类就永远不会进步。
n. [pl.]人文科学10 次
“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.
美国艺术与科学院（AAAS）刚刚发布的报告《问题的核心》值得称赞，因为它肯定了人文社会科学对美国自由民主的繁荣与安全的重要性。
In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education.”
2010年，国会中民主党和共和党的领袖人物致信美国艺术与科学院，要求其确定“联邦、州和地方政府、大学、基金会、教育工作者、个人捐助者及其他各方”可以采取哪些行动，以“保持国家在人文社会科学学术和教育方面的卓越地位”。
In response, the American Academy formed the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.
作为回应，美国艺术与科学院成立了人文与社会科学委员会。
Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left-liberal propaganda.
可悲的是，曾经在校园里根深蒂固的探究精神，已经被利用人文社会科学来宣扬“进步主义”或左翼自由主义宣传的做法所取代。
During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds — including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate — varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.
20世纪90年代末，各国在社会科学和人文学科上的支出占全部研发经费（包括政府、高等教育、非营利机构和企业的经费）的比例从约4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，这一比例约为15%。
No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr. Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.
没有哪个学科像人文学科这样热衷于专业化。梅南先生指出，你可以用三年成为律师，用四年成为医生。但在人文学科获得博士学位的正常时间却是九年。毫不奇怪，多达一半的英语专业博士生在获得学位前就退学了。
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No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr. Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.
没有哪个学科像人文学科这样热衷于专业化。梅南先生指出，你可以用三年成为律师，用四年成为医生。但在人文学科获得博士学位的正常时间却是九年。毫不奇怪，多达一半的英语专业博士生在获得学位前就退学了。
His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard, Mr. Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read” — they form a sort of social glue.
他关注的主要是人文学科：文学、语言、哲学等。这些学科正在变得不受欢迎：如今22%的美国大学毕业生主修商科，而主修历史的只有2%，主修英语的只有4%。然而，许多美国一流大学希望本科生打好基础，掌握每一个受过教育的人都应具备的基本思想经典。但大多数大学难以就“通识教育”应该是什么样子达成一致。梅南先生指出，在哈佛，“名著之所以被阅读，是因为它们一直被人阅读”——它们形成了一种社会黏合剂。
Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students require fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.
同样不足为奇的是，最终只有大约一半的人得到了他们当初读研究生时所追求的教授职位。职位实在太少了。部分原因是大学不断培养出越来越多的博士。但想学习人文学科的学生却越来越少：英语系在1970—1971学年授予的学士学位比20年后还要多。学生越少，所需的教师也就越少。因此，在花了十年时间撰写论文之后，许多人文学科的学生离开了这一行，去做他们没有受过训练的工作。
Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students require fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.
同样不足为奇的是，最终只有大约一半的人得到了他们当初读研究生时所追求的教授职位。职位实在太少了。部分原因是大学不断培养出越来越多的博士。但想学习人文学科的学生却越来越少：英语系在1970—1971学年授予的学士学位比20年后还要多。学生越少，所需的教师也就越少。因此，在花了十年时间撰写论文之后，许多人文学科的学生离开了这一行，去做他们没有受过训练的工作。