| 21. | New ways of organizing the workplace all that reengineering and downsizing - are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology , and investment in education and training. |
| 组织工作场所的新方法——包括机构重组和缩小规模——只是促进某个经济实体的综合生产率提高的一项措施，还有其他许多因素促进生产率的提高，比如对机械设备的联合投资、采用新技术、对教育培训投资等。
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| 22. | Although many people tend to live under the illusion that traditional technology and methods are still playing extremely important role in people's life, an increasing evidences show that it is less useful than many people think. |
| 尽管许多人保持着传统观念，认为传统技术方法在人们生活中仍发挥着重要作用，但是越来越多的证据显示它并没有人们想象的有用。
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| 23. | Although modern science and technology have proved that such methods are absurd, there are still millions of people use such methods in many remote places nowadays. |
| 尽管现代科学技术已经证明了这些方法是愚昧的，然而在许多偏僻的地方，仍有成千上万的人们在使用这些方法。
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| 24. | As a popular saying goes, "everything has two sides." Now the public are benefiting more and more from scientific and technological inventions. On the other hand, the progress of science and technology is bringing us a lot of trouble. People in many countries are suffering from public hazards. |
| 常言道：事情总是一分为二的。如今人们从科技发明中得到越来越多的好处。另一方面，科技进步也给我们带来了许多麻烦。现在许多国家 的人民饱受公害之苦。
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| 25. | As for me, the declining of traditional technology and methods is not a bad thing; it is the natural result of progress of society. |
| 认为，传统技术方法的消亡不一定是坏事，这是社会进步的自然结果。
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| 26. | At the time when technology means ever more harmful carbon in the air we breathe, we need these forests now more than ever. |
| 术的发展意味着我们会吸入更多有害气体时，我们比任何时候更需要森林。
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| 27. | From what has been discussed above, I firmly believe that time will prove that traditional technology and methods would die out with the development of modern science and technology. The maintenance of the traditional technology and methods is futile. |
| 通过以上讨论，我坚定地相信时间会证明传统技术方法将会随着现代技术的发展而消亡，坚持传统技术方法是徒劳的。
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| 28. | In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. |
| 在澳大利亚--人口老龄化，延长寿命的技术和变化看的社会态度，这 些因素都在发挥作用一一其他的州也会考虑制定相似的关于安乐死的 法律。
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| 29. | In the first place, some aspects of the traditional technology and methods are harmful and hampering the development of modern technology science. |
| 首先，传统技术方法有些部分是有害的，并且会阻碍现代科技的发展。
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| 30. | In the last decades, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past. |
| 在过去的几十年，先进的医疗技术已经使得人们比过去活的时间更长成为可能。
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