2023考研英语-翻译试题精读(一).pdf

2023考研英语-翻译试题精读(一)--第1页 2023考研英语:翻译试题精读(一) 2023考研英语:翻译试题精读(一) 科学与技术 The meanings of “science”and “technology”have changed significantly from one generation to another. More similarities than differences, however, can be found between the terms, (46)Both science and technology imply a thinking process, both are concerned with causal relationships in the material world, and both employ an experimental methodology that results in empirical demonstrations that can be verified by repetition. (47)Science, at least in theory, is less concerned with the practicality of its results and more concerned with the development of general laws, but in practice science and technology are inextricably involved with each other. The varying interplay of the two can be observed in the historical development of such practitioners as chemists, engineers, physicists, astronomers, carpenters, 第 1 页 共 8 页 2023考研英语-翻译试题精读(一)--第1页 2023考研英语-翻译试题精读(一)--第2页 potters, and many other specialists. Differing educational requirements, social status, vocabulary, methodology, and types of rewards, as well a institutional objectives and profe ional goals, contribute to such distinctions as can be made between the activities of scientists and technologists but throughout history the practitioners of “pure”science have made many practical as well a theoretical contributions. (48) Indeed, the concept that science provides the ideas for technological innovations and that pure research is therefore e ential for any significant advancement in industrial civilization is e entially a myth. Most of the greatest changes in industrial