61. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility; he was strong and she was weak.张锦芯考研英语疑难长句100句(4)
62. They were no longer occasional practitioners of art, as the cave painters had been, but full professionals—i.e., men skilled in a specialized occupation, practicing it full-time and probably earning all of their livelihood from it.
63. But even the relatively simple definition of a professional as a person receiving pay for carrying out a specialized occupation on a full-time basis is difficult to apply to the arts.
64. Nearly everywhere and always, music, architecture, and poetry have been regarded as professions, while pottery making has been regarded as an art and granted the dignity of a profession only in some nonWestern cultures.
65. The attempt to gain for some of the arts the status of learned or quasi-learned professions resulted in a distinction between“the fine arts” and“the applied arts”, a distinction that has done harm to both.
66. The gradual breakdown of the attitude that permitted such exclusive categories to be created and the general rejection of the false distinctions between art and utility are encouraging developments in the arts in recent times.
67. Michelson‘s work is valuable, as a reflection of the day to day responsibilities of Mesquakie women, yet as is often the case with lifepassage studies, it presents little of the central character’s psychological motivation.
68. For example, in Maria Campbell‘s account of growing up as a Canadian Metis who was influenced strongly by the nonnative American world around her, one learns a great deal about the life of native American women, but Campbell’s individual story, which is told to us directly, is always the center of her narrative.
69. As anthropologist Ralph Lonton said,“The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” So it is with people: except in unusual circumstances, the effects of our own culture generally remain imperceptible to us.
70. No longer could I count on people to stare only surreptitiously, to take precautions against invisible microbes, or to stand in an orderly way one behind the other on the basis of time of arrival to obtain a service.
71. The aerospace industry is the complex of manufacturing concerns engaged in the production of flight vehicles, including unpowered gliders and sailplanes, lighter than air-craft, ground-effect machines, heavier than air craft of both fixed-wing and rotary-wing varieties, military missiles, space launch vehicles, and manned or unmanned spacecraft; propulsion systems and other thrusting devices; on board equipment essential to the design purpose of the flight vehicle; and ground-based support equipment needed for the operation and maintenance of the flight vehicle.
72. Russia, France, and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Space Agency, also have achieved a high degree of aerospace sophistication and have the ability to manufacture home designed systems including the entire range of aerospace vehicles.
73. In the United States, nonaerospace systems, primarily for state and municipal governments, utilities, surfacetransportation companies, hospitals, and other segments of the medical community, represent a significant portion of total sales.
74. Between 1940 and 1980 in the United States, for example, per-acre yields of corn tripled, those of wheat and soybeans doubled, and farm output per hour of farm work increased almost 10 fold as capital was substituted for labour.
75. This is an opportunity for some of us to suggest to Hollywood where that boundary of consumer tolerance is. Especially those of us who have not yet convinced Hollywood to cease its descent into everlower levels of desensitization of our young.
76. Producers like Aaron Sorkin of“The West Wing” planned to keep pushing hard. He was quoted as saying:“There‘s absolutely no reason why we can’t use the language of adulthood in programs that are about adults.”
77. At this moment of crisis in our nations history, thought has become more contemplative, prayerful, and spiritual. It may be the time to tell the entertainment industry that we want not a temporary pause in the flow of tastelessness, but a long-term cleanup.
78. Richard Nixon‘s intense interest in sporting events was well known during his time in the White House, and it went far beyond the ceremonial events, such as throwing out the first pitch of the season for professional baseball and calling the winning team’s locker room after the Super Bowl.
79. He repeatedly stunned reporters, athletes, and coaches that met him with his detailed knowledge about sporting events, and made a surprise visit to a Washington Redskins practice to give the team an inspirational boost after a difficult loss.
80. In some cases it was quite intentional, such as the effort of the White House staff to arrange a photo opportunity on the front lawn of the executive mansion with race car driver Mario Andretti, so Nixon could develop some popularity among race fans.
81. Others were less intentional,such as his habit of attending baseball and football games and watching the game from the stands with all the other fans,presenting himself as a man of the people,rather than viewing from a luxury box with the team owner.张锦芯考研英语疑难长句100句(5)
82. Unlike his hero Theodore Roosevelt,who helped create the National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA)while in office,Nixon repeatedly backed away from opportunities to use the prestige of his office to have an influence in the world of sport,such as preventing the relocation of the Washington Senators baseball team to the Dallas Ft. Worth area. He did,however,attempt to use sport as venue to shape cultural values.
84. Nor do World Bank projections lend undivided hope for the future. Under the“business as usual”scenario,the number of poor on the $1 per day scale will not change during the projection period up to 2008.
85. However,should policy measures be taken to boost economic growth and make the growth process more inclusive to the poor,the World Bank reckons that 500 million people could be brought out of extreme poverty by 2008.
86. Indeed,such concerns have been vented with increasing frustration,including at the Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Seattle last year,and more recently at the joint spring meeting of the IMF and the World Bank.
87. One problem facing governments in povertystricken countries,civil society,and international organizations is that poverty is a multidimensional problem with no simple solution—not least because of its sheer scale.
88. The causes and expressions of poverty are not the same everywhere,although some common terms can often be found,including a lack of access to education,basic health care,and unequal distribution of productive assets(land,livestock,credits,etc.)。
89. The existence of both racial and sexual discrimination in employment is well documented,and policy makers and responsible employers are particularly sensitive to the plight of the black female employee on the theory that she is doubly the victim of discrimination.
90. Moreover,State distribution of residence is important because blacks are overrepresented in the South,where wage rates are typically lower than elsewhere and where racial differentials in income are greater.
91. Recently,there have been some imaginative attempts to make polycrystalline and ribbon silicon which are lower in cost than high-quality single crystals;but to date the efficiencies of these apparently lower-cost materials have been unacceptably small.
92. Although many scientists were aware of the very low cost of amorphous solar cells,they felt that they could never be manufactured with the efficiencies necessary to contribute significantly to the demand for electric power.
93. Already,solar cells with efficiencies well above 6 percent have been developed using amorphous materials,and further research will doubtlessly find even less costly amorphous materials with higher efficiencies.
94. This imaginary task gives some idea of the challenge facing biologists in the United States and elsewhere as they embark on a monumental project:deciphering all the coded information in the human genome,all the genes in a human cell.
95. They predict that a complete understanding of the human genetic code would provide untold benefits for humanity,for example,those abilities to diagnose,cure,and eventually prevent many diseases caused by faulty genes.
96. Not only has the Government refused to consult with the people of Australia on this issue of prohibition of free communication between individuals,they have also refused to consult with industry,and ignored all technical evidence and reports on the issues.
97. And not only is it technically impossible to censor current content of the Internet,but the Internet is set to explode exponentially in the indefinite future,with there being literally millions of changes and additions to web content on a daily basis.
98. In order to make economic development agreements more attractive to investors,some developing countries have attempted to strengthen the security of such agreements,specifying that the agreements will be governed by“general principles of law recognized by civilized nations”—a set of legal principles or rules shared by the world‘s major legal systems.
99. Moreover,even in the case of administrative contracts,French law requires that in the event that the government modifies the terms of the contract on its own side,it must compensate the contractor for any increased burden resulting from the government‘s action.
100. In both the United States and the United Kingdom,government contracts are governed by the ordinary law of contracts,with the result that the government can reserve the power to modify or terminate a contract on its own side only by writing such power into the contract.