141. Though most dictionary have a system of making words as
obsolete, or in use only as slang, many people, more especially if
their use of a particular word has been challenged, are likely to
conclude, if they find it in a dictionary, that it is accepted as
being used by writers of established reputation.
142. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively
poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich,
public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather
than those of the poor.
143. Social change is more likely to occur in societies where
there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies
where people are similar in many ways.
144. In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply
separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater
or lesser extent, Notions of male superiority are hard to
maintain.
145. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that
equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more
fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation
rather than by the “battle of the sexes.”
146. The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is
difficult to lay down rules, because each family, needs to work
out its own ways for solving its own problems.
147. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers,
English is a language in which some of important works in science,
technology, and other fields are being produced, and not always by
native speakers.
148. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less
will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has
not had an active mind.
149. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of
something larger they work toward.
150. Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have
obvious signs, yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach
them unnoticed.
151. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure
about radiation damage –--a person may feel perfectly well, but
the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will
not be discovered until the birth of deformed (畸形) children or
even grandchildren.
152. In the end , only 7 out of 19 regular Cola drinkers correctly
identified their brand of choice in all for trails. The diet-Cola
drinkers did a little worse – only 7 of 27 identified all four
sample correctly.
153. Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually
conduct preference tests for food.
154. It seems simple enough to distinguish between the organism
and the surrounding environment and to separate forces acting on
an organism into those that are internal and biological and those
that are external and environmental.
155. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways,
because the organism and the environment are constantly
interacting so that the environment is modified by the orgainism
and vice versa (反之亦然).
156. In the case of man, the difficulties with the environment
concept are even more complicated because we have to deal with man
as an animal and with man as a bearer(持有者) of culture.
157. If we look at man as an animal and try to analyze the
environmental forces that are acting on the organism, we find that
we have to deal with things like climate, soil, plants, and such
like factors common to all biological situations; but we also
find, always, very important environmental influences that we can
only class as “cultural”, which modify the physical and biological
factors.
158. We thus easily get into great difficulties from the necessity
of viewing culture, at one moment, as a part of the man and, at
another moment, as a part of the environment.
159. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the
years, they assume the new generation of young people must be
hopeless in this respect.
160 Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English
language is not perceived as a generation phenomenon but rather as
something new and peculiar to today’s young people, it natrually
follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.