问答题 Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Most people would agree that, although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no correlative increase in wisdom. But argument ceases as soon as we attempt to define "wisdom" and consider means of promoting it.
There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom. (46) Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. To take a spectacular example, which is in everybody's mind at the present time: You study the composition of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and incidentally place in the hands of powerful lunatics the means of destroying the human race. (47) In such ways the pursuit of knowledge may become harmful unless it is combined with wisdom ; and wisdom in the sense of comprehensive vision is not necessarily present in specialists in the pursuit of knowledge.
It is not only in public ways, but in private life equally, that wisdom is needed. It is needed in the choice of ends to be pursued and in liberation of personal prejudice. (48) Even an end which it would be noble to pursue if it were attainable may be pursued unwisely if it is inherently impossible of achievement. Many men in the past ages have devoted their lives to a search for the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. (49) No doubt, if they could have found them, they would have conferred great benefits upon mankind, but as it was their lives were wasted.
To descend to less heroic matters, consider the case of two men, Mr. A and Mr. B, who hate each other and, through mutual hatred, bring each other to destruction. (50) If, with sufficient patience and sufficient persuasiveness, you have succeeded in convincing each that the other has only the normal share of human wickedness and that their hatred is harmful to both, then you will have injected some fragment of wisdom.