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  3. In our increasingly complex world, information is becoming the basic building block of the society. (46)However, at a time when

In our increasingly complex world, information is becoming the basic building block of the society. (46)However, at a time when

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问题     In our increasingly complex world, information is becoming the basic building block of the society. (46)However, at a time when the acquisition of new scientific information alone is approaching a rate of 250 million pages annually, the tide of knowledge is overwhelming the human capability of dealing with it. So man must turn to a machine if he hopes to contain the tide and channel it to beneficial ends.
    (47)The electronic computer, handling millions of facts with the swiftness of light, has given contemporary meaning to Aristotle’s vision of the liberating possibilities of machines: "When looms weave by themselves, man’s slavery will end." By transforming the way in which he gathers, stores, retrieves, and uses information, this versatile instrument is helping man to overcome his mental and physical limitations. (48)It is vastly widening his intellectual horizon, enabling him better to comprehend his universe, and providing the means to master that portion of it lying within his reach.
    Although we are only in the second decade of electronic date processing, the outlines of its influence on our culture are beginning to e merge. (49)Far from depersonalizing the individual and dehumanizing his society, the computer promises a degree of personalized service never before available to mankind.
    By the end of century, for the equipment of a few dollars a month, the individual will have a vast complex of computer services at his command. Information utilities will make computing power available, like electricity, to thousands of users simultaneously. (50)The computer in the home will be joined a national and global computer system that provides services ranging from banking and travel facilities to library research and medical care. High-speed communication devices, linked to satellites in space, will transmit data to and from virtually any point on earth with the ease of a dial system.
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答案然而，在新的科学情报资料每年以二亿五千万页的速度积累的时代，知识的洪流正淹没人类对付它的能力。
解析 这是一个简单复合句。句子主干部分是...the tide of knowledge is overwhelming the human capability...；when引导的定语从句修饰time，从句的主干是the acquisition...is approaching a rate...、翻译此句的难点在于确定词义，句中time意为"时代"而不是"时间"；acquisition意为"获得，获得物"，此处应转译为动词"积累"；approach意为"接近于，靠近"，在译文中，为符合汉语的表达习惯，用减译法，没有译出此词；tide本意为"潮水"，tide of knowledge可转译为"知识的海洋，知识的洪流"；overwhelm意为"淹没，倾覆"。
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