六级翻译冲刺专项训练（30）

　　34. In reality, though the BBC dictionary will be purchased by a far wider range of language learners, as will the other two dictionaries.

　　[参考译文]实际上，BBC词典将拥有比另外两本词典更广的读者群。

　　35. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simple mindedness as he sees it-of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of eliminating crime punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform.

　　[参考译文]由于警察认为人们（市民，社会工作者，医生，立法人员以及法官）头脑简单比如，法官不是重罚以消除犯罪而是量刑从轻以期促使罪犯改过自新因此，他们与社会之间的隔阂更深一层。

　　36. A spear or a robot is as much a cultural as a physical object.

　　[参考译文]予和机器人既是物理体，同样也是文化现象。

　　37. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but, custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace.

　　[参考译文]对于人脑的内部活动，我们认为特别值得研究。但对于传统风俗，我们却觉得那不过是最最平常的行为而已。

　　38. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the language of his family.

　　[参考译文]约翰?杜威曾经十分认真地说过，风俗习惯对个人的行为的影响与个人对传统习惯的影响之比，正如一个人母语的词汇总量与他儿时从家庭用语中学会的儿童用语之比。