英语翻译电子书.doc

PAGE PAGE 6 Textbook Intensive English Reading Compiled by z.w.z. for Candidates Applying for Doctor’s Degree in the Art Academy of China September 1, 2010 Contents Unit 1 Text 1 The Paradox of Knowledge Page 3 Text 2 Tyranny of the Urgent Page 8 Unit 2 Text 1 The Virtues of Ambition Page 16 Text 2 Three Days to See Page 21 Unit 3 Text 1 The West Unique, Not Universal Text 2 What I Have Lived For Page 28 Unit 4 Text 1 Philosophy and Art Page 30 Text 2 Chopin—The Beautiful Soul of Music Page 39 Art Theory Translation Exercises Songs Page 48 Unit 1 Text 1 The Paradox of Knowledge HYPERLINK /p/articles/mi_m2843 Skeptical Inquirer, ? HYPERLINK /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n5_v19 Sept-Oct, 1995 ?by HYPERLINK /p/search?tb=artqt=%22Lee+Loevinger%22 Lee Loevinger Main theme: As knowledge about nature expands, so does ignorance, and ignorance may increase more than its related knowledge. 1. The greatest achievement of humankind in its long evolution from ancient hominoid ancestors to its present status is the acquisition and accumulation of a vast body of knowledge about itself, the world, and the universe. The products of this knowledge are all those things that, in the aggregate, we call civilization, including language, science, literature, art, all the physical mechanisms, instruments, and structures we use, and the physical infrastructures on which society relies. Most of us assume that in modern society knowledge of all kinds is continually increasing and the aggregation of new information into the corpus of our social or collective knowledge is steadily reducing the area of ignorance about ourselves, the world, and the universe. But continuing reminders of the numerous areas of our present ignorance invite a critical analysis of this assumption. 2. In the popular view, intellectual evolution is similar to, although much more rapid than, somatic evolution. Biological evolution is often described by the st