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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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答案以光一般的速度处理千百万信息的电子计算机已给亚里士多德关于机器可以解放人力的构想赋予了现代意义。他曾说："当织布机自己织布的时候，人类的奴役将告终"。
解析 此句是一个简单句。句子的主干部分是The electronic computer....has given contemporary meaning to Aristotle’s vision…；of后面的成分作宾语vision的补足语，引号里的内容也是vision的补足语。句中facts意为"信息"；vision本意为"幻想，想象"，这时译作"构想"；loom意为"织布机"。在翻译方法上，此句主要采用了"分译法"和"增译法"，为使译文易于表达，将这个长句分为两句来译，把引号里的内容分译为一句；为使结构紧凑，在译分词短语时，加译了"以…一般的"，the liberating possibilities of machines也增译为"机器可以解放人力"。
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