新概念英語第四冊
Lesson 16 The modern city
1 . The great cities have been built with no regard for us.大城市的建設毫不關心我們。
2 . While they enjoy the comfort and banal luxury of their dwelling,在享受自己住宅的舒適和庸俗的豪華時，
3 . This caused the construction of gigantic buildings where too large masses of human beings are crowded together.這樣就導致了許多摩天大廈拔地而起，大廈內眾多的人擠在一起。
4 . and of dark narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases,和陰暗狹窄的街道組成
5 . Obviously, it has not been planned for the good of its inhabitants.顯然，現代化的城市不是為居民的利益而規劃的。
6 . Modern industry is based on the conception of the maximum production at lowest cost,以最低成本獲取最多產品，
7 . In the organization of industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.在工業生活的組織中，工廠對工人的生理和精神狀態的影響完全被忽視了。
8 . and of offering to the tenants offices and apartments that please them.和向租房人提供使他滿意的辦公室和住房。
9 . It has expanded without any idea of the true nature of the human beings who run the machines,現代工業發展起來了，卻根本沒想到操作機器的人的本質。
10 . they do not realize that they are deprived of the necessities of life.卻沒有意識到被剝奪了生活所必需的東西。
11 . The modern city consists of monstrous edifices,今日現代化的城市由大得嚇人的高樓
12 . and without giving any consideration to the effects produced on the individuals and on their descendants by the artificial mode of existence imposed by the factory.工廠把一種人為的生存方式強加給工人，卻不顧及這種生存方式給工人及其後代帶來的影響。
13 . Civilized men like such a way of living.文明人喜歡這樣一種生活方式。
14 . in order that an individual or a group of individuals may earn as much money as possible.為的是讓某個個人或某一部分人盡可能多地賺錢。
15 . torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.街道上充斥著汽油味和有毒氣體，出租汽車、卡車、公共汽車的噪音刺耳難忍，絡繹不絕的人群擠來擠去。
16 . The shape and dimensions of the skyscrapers depend entirely on the necessity of obtaining the maximum income per square foot of ground,每平方英尺地皮取得最大收入