新概念英语第四册44-03

课文...Moreover, in any country where population presses hard upon natural resources, the general economic situation is apt to be so precarious that government control of capital and labour, production and consumption, becomes inevitable. ...

be apt to=tend to

government control : 政府控制

capital : 资本

接下来课文... It is no accident that the twentieth century should be the century of highly centralized governments and totalitarian dictatorships; it had to be so for the simple reason that the twentieth century is the century of planetary overcrowding.

it is no accident : 决不是偶然

centralized :中央集权的

(I want to build a cradle for security. (Stalin))

Aldous Huxley (奥尔德斯?赫胥黎 1894-1963)

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the Homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

“给我你那劳累，贫穷，蜷曲渴望呼吸自由的身躯，可怜被遗弃在你们海岸的人群们，交给

我吧，那些无家可归的、颠簸流离的人们，我在金色之门高举明灯迎接他们.