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Ask people about public libraries and a certain image springs to mind: dusty, old-fashioned, the sort of place you enjoyed as a child but, rather like a British seaside town, would you go there now?
问起公共图书馆，人们脑海中会浮现出某种印象：布满灰尘、过时老旧，是你小时候喜欢去的那种地方——但就像英国的海滨小镇一样，你现在还会去那里吗？
Not only will this foster political and social unrest, but it could, as Coyle suggests, hold back the sorts of AI technologies needed for regional economies to grow.
这不仅会助长政治和社会动荡，而且正如科伊尔所指出的，还可能阻碍地区经济增长所需的那类人工智能技术的发展。
A calm, rule-following child might respond better to a different sort of parenting than, [for example], a younger one.
一个安静、守规矩的孩子，比起（比如说）一个年幼一些的孩子，可能更适合另一种养育方式。
[Fortunately], there’s another sort of parent that’s easier to [describe]: a patient parent.
幸运的是，有另一种父母更容易描述：有耐心的父母。
A different and not mutually exclusive [prediction] holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one [characterized] by purposelessness: Without jobs to give their lives [meaning], people will simply become lazy and depressed.
另一种不同但并不相互排斥的{{3}}认为，未来将是另一种荒原，一种以无目标为{{4}}的荒原：没有工作赋予生活{{5}}，人们只会变得懒惰和沮丧。
On these sorts of trips it’s easy to lose concentration on the driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery.
在这类行程中，人们很容易在开车时注意力不集中，也很少留意沿途的风景。
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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。
v. 分类，整理3 次
Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market.
她认为，诚信之所以崩塌，是因为人们普遍接受了社会唯一的“分类机制”应当是利润和市场这一观念。
For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.
一代人以来，普遍的信条一直是社会的分类机制应当是利润。
the consequences of the current sorting mechanism.
当前分类机制造成的后果。
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Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.
法学教授奥林·科尔将21世纪数字信息的爆炸式增长和易获取性，与20世纪汽车成为几乎必不可少的生活必需品相提并论：当年大法官们必须为乘用车这一新的私人领域制定新规则；如今他们必须理清第四修正案如何适用于数字信息。
Nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal.
尽管如此，某种形式的统一仍是一个主要目标。