六級(jí)強(qiáng)化長(zhǎng)難句翻譯（8）
37. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...
[參考譯文]對(duì)任何一個(gè)民主社會(huì)的考驗(yàn)，他在《華爾街雜志》的一個(gè)專欄文章中寫到，不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達(dá)，而在于這個(gè)社會(huì)是否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時(shí)候這種結(jié)果是多么的富有爭(zhēng)議或令人不快
38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last months stockholders meeting, Levin asserted that music is not the cause of societys ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.
[參考譯文]在-上個(gè)月的股東大會(huì)上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說(shuō)：音樂(lè)不是社會(huì)問(wèn)題的原因，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個(gè)教師，并用說(shuō)唱音樂(lè)與學(xué)生們進(jìn)行溝通。
39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.
[參考譯文]有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如輕踩剎車以操縱經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著陸，使貨幣政策聽起來(lái)像是一門精確的科學(xué)。沒(méi)有什么比這更遠(yuǎn)離實(shí)際情況的了。
40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially Americas, have little productive slack.
[參考譯文]經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家們對(duì)英國(guó)和美國(guó)的有利的通貨膨脹數(shù)據(jù)尤其感到驚訝，因?yàn)閭鹘y(tǒng)的計(jì)量方法顯示兩國(guó)的經(jīng)濟(jì)，特別是美國(guó)的經(jīng)濟(jì)，幾乎沒(méi)有生產(chǎn)蕭條的時(shí)候。
37. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...
[參考譯文]對(duì)任何一個(gè)民主社會(huì)的考驗(yàn)，他在《華爾街雜志》的一個(gè)專欄文章中寫到，不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達(dá)，而在于這個(gè)社會(huì)是否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時(shí)候這種結(jié)果是多么的富有爭(zhēng)議或令人不快
38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last months stockholders meeting, Levin asserted that music is not the cause of societys ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.
[參考譯文]在-上個(gè)月的股東大會(huì)上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說(shuō)：音樂(lè)不是社會(huì)問(wèn)題的原因，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個(gè)教師，并用說(shuō)唱音樂(lè)與學(xué)生們進(jìn)行溝通。
39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.
[參考譯文]有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如輕踩剎車以操縱經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著陸，使貨幣政策聽起來(lái)像是一門精確的科學(xué)。沒(méi)有什么比這更遠(yuǎn)離實(shí)際情況的了。
40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially Americas, have little productive slack.
[參考譯文]經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家們對(duì)英國(guó)和美國(guó)的有利的通貨膨脹數(shù)據(jù)尤其感到驚訝，因?yàn)閭鹘y(tǒng)的計(jì)量方法顯示兩國(guó)的經(jīng)濟(jì)，特別是美國(guó)的經(jīng)濟(jì)，幾乎沒(méi)有生產(chǎn)蕭條的時(shí)候。
