考研During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

在20世纪90年代末，国家在社会科学和人文科学方面的支出占所有研究和发展基金（包括政府、高等教育、非营利组织和企业）的比例从4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，这一比例约为15%。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate-varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, i

在20世纪90年代末，国家在社会科学和人文科学方面的支出占所有研究和发展基金（包括政府、高等教育、非营利组织和企业）的比例从4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，我

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence A will be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future o

斯蒂芬·霍金教授警告说，强大的人工智能A的创造将是“人类有史以来最好的事情，也可能是最坏的事情”，并赞扬成立了一个专门研究人类未来的学术机构

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( ' , AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

美国艺术与科学院（AAAS）刚刚发布的报告《问题的核心》肯定了人文社会科学对美国自由民主繁荣与安全的重要性，值得赞扬。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研In response, the American Academy formed the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

作为回应，美国科学院成立了人文和社会科学委员会。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研"The Heart of the Matter," the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

美国文理学院刚刚发布的报告《问题的核心》肯定了人文和社会科学对美国自由民主繁荣和安全的重要性，值得赞扬。

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The latest congressional report acknowledges the critical importance of technical training, but also asserts that the study of the humanities (人文学科)and social sciences must remain central components of America's educational system at all levels.

最新的国会报告承认技术培训的极端重要性，但也断言人文学科的研究(人文学科)社会科学必须仍然是美国各级教育体系的核心组成部分。

2014年6月阅读原文

考研In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education”.

2010年，国会民主党和共和党领袖致函AAS，要求其确定“联邦、州和地方政府、大学、基金会、教育工作者、，“个人捐助者和其他人”以“保持国家在人文和社会科学学术和教育方面的卓越”。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of fulfillment and opportunity for all.

科学和技术将治愈人类的所有疾病，为所有人带来实现和机会的生活。

2013年考研阅读原文

六级The robot who rescues Spooner's life in I, Robot follows Asimov's zeroth larobots cannot harm humanity as opposed to individual humans or allow humanity to come to harm—an expansion of the first law that allows robots to determine what's in the greater go

在《I，robot》中，拯救斯普纳生命的机器人遵循阿西莫夫的第0部《Larrobot》机器人不能伤害人类而不是人类个体，也不能允许人类来伤害人类。这是第一定律的扩展，该定律允许机器人确定未来的发展方向

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.

许多科技行业的先驱，最著名的是企业家埃隆·马斯克，也表达了他们对超级智能人工智能可能对人类造成的伤害的担忧。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people， then humanity would never have progressed.

如果环境总是决定人们的生活和前景，那么人类就永远不会进步。

2011年考研翻译原文

考研To put it another way: How can we make sure that the thinking of intelligent machines reflects humanity's highest values?

换一种说法：我们如何确保智能机器的思维反映了人类的最高价值观？

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

四级But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.

但如果我们能找到答案，机器人可能对人类有益。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Under these circumstances, it's natural to look for what may appear to be the most "practical" way out of the problem "Major in a subject designed to get you a job" seems the obvious answer to some, though this ignores the fact that many disciplines in the humanities characterized as "soft" often, in fact, lead to employment and success in the long run.

在这种情况下，寻找最“实用”的方法来解决这个问题是很自然的，“主修一门为你找到工作而设计的学科”似乎是一些人显而易见的答案，尽管这忽略了一个事实，即许多人文学科事实上经常被称为“软”学科，从长远来看，能带来就业和成功。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.

侍者们，他们是人类的敏锐观察者，正在意识到这一点；在一项民意调查中，整整30%的人表示，他们不相信自己的工作对收到的小费有任何影响。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

编辑《世界新闻报》的目的不是为了促进读者对所写内容的公平理解，也不是为了背叛任何普通的人性。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

编辑《世界新闻报》的目的不是为了促进读者的理解，也不是为了公平对待所写的内容，也不是为了背叛任何普通人。

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级While the world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about ai, raising concerns that humanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to highlight the positives the A

尽管这位世界著名的物理学家经常对人工智能持谨慎态度，担心如果人类用自己的意志创造出一种超级智能，人类可能会成为自己毁灭的建筑师，但他也很快强调了人工智能的积极作用

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考I discovered even more about one of humanity's earliest forms of life art during several years of research around the world.

在世界各地数年的研究中，我发现了更多关于人类最早的生命艺术形式之一的信息。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级In coeducational schools, girls are often expected to succeed only in humanities or the art.

在男女同校的学校里，女孩通常只希望在人文或艺术方面取得成功。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers.

人类拥有必要的农业技术工具来消除饥饿，从基因工程作物到人工肥料。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研As education improved, humanity's productivity potential increased as well.

随着教育的改善，人类的生产力潜力也在增加。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

没有一门学科像人文学科那样对专业精神充满热情。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

你甚至可能会认为人类没有什么可期待的未来。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

因此，在十年的论文写作结束后，许多人文学科的学生离开这个行业去做一些他们没有接受过培训的事情。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

可悲的是，曾经在校园里呆在家里的探究精神已经被人文社会科学作为宣传“进步”或左翼自由主义宣传的工具所取代。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

但想学习人文学科的学生却少了：1970-1971年间，英语系获得的学士学位比20年后的要多。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

如果人类在认识到每一个机构的最终价值都是其独特的人类效应方面取得了一些进展，那么我们很可能相信，这一教训主要是通过与年轻人打交道而获得的。

2009年考研翻译原文

考研Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

只有当人类开始以更高效的方式获取食物时，才有时间做其他事情。

2009年考研阅读原文

六级The experiment highlights the importance of morality: without it, how can a robot decide whom to save or what's best for humanity, especially if it can't calculate survival odds?

这项实验突出了道德的重要性：没有道德，机器人如何决定拯救谁或什么对人类最有利，特别是如果它不能计算生存几率的话？

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

下载和消费文化需要高超的技能，但如果不能超越下载，就等于剥夺了人类的一个重要组成部分。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级The city is the building block of civilisation and of almost everything people do; a guidebook to the city is really, therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever-growing chunk of humanity chooses to live.

城市是文明的基石，也是人们所做的一切的基石；因此，一本城市指南实际上是一本关于人类如何选择生活的指南。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Ever since humanity began to farm our own food, we've faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy.

自从人类开始种植自己的食物以来，我们就一直面临着不可预测的雨，这既是朋友也是敌人。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.

但获得人文学科博士学位通常需要九年的时间。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing "progressive, " or left- liberal propaganda.

可悲的是，曾经在校园里呆在家里的探究精神已经被人文社会科学作为宣传“进步”或左翼自由主义宣传的工具所取代。

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time.

人类也一直痴迷于试图捕捉时间的意义。

2011年6月听力原文

考研His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

他主要关注人文学科：文学、语言、哲学等等。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope( ' , TMT), a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity’s view of the cosmos.

抗议活动已经爆发，抗议建造30米望远镜（TMT），这是一座承诺彻底改变人类宇宙观的巨型天文台。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity's view of the cosmos.

抗议活动已经爆发，抗议建造30米望远镜，这是一个巨大的天文台，有望彻底改变人类对宇宙的看法。

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级But the idea that institutions or their students must decide between humanities and science is false.

但认为机构或其学生必须在人文和科学之间做出决定的观点是错误的。

2010年12月阅读原文

考研As education improved, humanity's productivity potential increased as well.

随着教育的改善，人类的生产力潜力也在增加。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The humanities and STEM subjects should be given equal importance.

人文学科和STEM学科应该同等重要。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级The error here is far too deep: not only do humans need nature for themselves, but the very idea that humanity and the natural world are separable things is profoundly damaging.

这里的错误太深了：不仅人类自身需要自然，而且认为人类和自然世界是可分离的东西的想法本身就具有深刻的破坏性。

2010年12月阅读原文

四级An obsession (沉迷) with time – saving, gaining, wasting, losing, and mastering it – seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed.

痴迷(沉迷) 随着时间的流逝——节约、获得、浪费、失去和掌握时间——似乎在人类存在之初就已经成为人类的一部分。

2011年6月听力原文

四级Under these circumstances, it's natural to look for what may appear to be the most "practical" way out of the problem "Major in a subject designed to get you a job" seems the obvious answer to some, though this ignores the fact that many disciplines in the humanities characterized as "soft" often, in fact, lead to employment and success in the long run

在这种情况下，寻找最“实用”的方法来解决这个问题是很自然的，“主修一门为你找到工作而设计的学科”似乎是一些人显而易见的答案，尽管这忽略了一个事实，即许多人文学科事实上经常被称为“软”学科，从长远来看，能带来就业和成功

2014年6月阅读原文

六级While the world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about AI, raising concerns that humanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to highlight the positives that AI research can bring.

尽管这位世界知名的物理学家经常对人工智能持谨慎态度，担心如果人类创造出一种有自己意愿的超级智能，人类可能会成为其毁灭的缔造者，但他也很快强调了人工智能研究可以带来的积极性。

2019.6六级真题第一套

六级George Herbert Mead said that humans are "talked into" humanity.

乔治·赫伯特·米德说，人类被“说服”为人类。

2010年6月英语六级真题

四级Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide.

人类使用的水不到全世界可用水的一半。

2001年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become More self-consciousy global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative （合作的）research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.

为了应对驱动世界经济的同样力量，大学已经成为

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级It is about building better communities and organizations that enhance us as individuals and reinforce our shared humanity .

这是关于建立更好的社区和组织，以增强我们作为个人的能力，加强我们共同的人性。

2009年6月英语四级考试真题

四级The latest congressional report acknowledges the critical importance of technical training, but also asserts that the study of the humanities (人文学科）and social sciences must remain central components of America’s educational system at all levels.

最新的国会报告承认了技术培训的至关重要性，但也断言人文学科的研究(人文学科）社会科学必须继续是美国各级教育体系的核心组成部分。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级Under these circumstances, it’s natural to look for what may appear to be the most “practical” way out of the problem: “Major in a subject designed to get you a job” seems the obvious answer to some, though this ignores the fact that many disciplines in the humanities characterized as “soft” often, in fact, lead to employment and success in the long run.

在这种情况下，人们很自然地会寻找最“实用”的解决方法：对一些人来说，“主修一门旨在为你找到工作的学科”似乎是显而易见的答案，尽管这忽略了一个事实，即人文学科中许多以“软”为特征的学科实际上往往会带来就业和成功。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级The development of self-consciousness and the notion of individual identity, or ego; storytelling about the origins of the world, the creation of humanity and life after death; and the ability to feel others, sadness—all were critical parts of the neurobiological changes that made us human.

自我意识的发展和个人身份的概念，或自我；讲述世界的起源、人类的创造和死后的生活；感受他人的能力，悲伤——所有这些都是使我们成为人类的神经生物学变化的关键部分。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole so successful as a species.

我们将失去使整个人类作为一个物种如此成功的重要部分。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

考研But beyond learning Einstein’s theories, his overall attitude towards science as a tool to liberate humanity is something from which everyone can and should learn.

但除了学习爱因斯坦的理论之外，他对科学作为解放人类的工具的总体态度是每个人都可以也应该学习的。

1980年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研He is an “educated” man; and the humanities are his strongest foundation.

他是一个受过“教育”的人；人文学科是他最坚实的基础。

1986年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century.

科学和人文学科之间的分歧在本世纪加深了。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研All the social sciences focus upon the study of humanity.

所有的社会科学都集中在对人性的研究上。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研As education improved, humanity’s productivity potential increased as well.

随着教育水平的提高，人类的生产力潜力也随之提高。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题