新概念英语第四册56-04

Community against community 群体与群体之间的竞争

envisioned 做后置定语

determined 做 food 后置定语

The survival of the fittest 适者生存

A fixed amount of food 固定量的食物

The physical environment 客观环境

Evolution ; development 进化

Mental outlook 世界观

Similar latitude 相近的纬度

west coasts 西海岸；

Similar climates 相似的气候

California: highly advanced 高度发展

Morocco : highly backward;

Not …..but ……. 转折；

different thought in inhabitants（livers,residents）

The most important factor in our environment is the state of our own minds.我们的自然环境中最重要的因素是我们的心态；

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But the competition of man against man is not the simple process envisioned in biology. It is not a

simple competition for a fixed amount of food determined by the physical environment, because

the environment that determines our evolution is no longer essentially physical. Our environment

is chiefly conditioned by the things we believe. Morocco and California are bits of the Earth in

very similar latitudes, both on the west coasts of continents with similar climates, and probably

with rather similar natural resources. Yet their present development is wholly different, not so

much because of different people even, but because of the different thoughts that exist in the minds

of their inhabitants. This is the point I wish to emphasize. The most important factor in our

environment is the state of our own minds.

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