中國農科院英譯漢考博資料

1. （2005.01） Quitting smoking is more of a matter of willpower than of individual choice, for smoking is widely recognized as addictive. Although counseling and medication can increase the odds that a smoker quits permanently, the best way to avoid dilemmas is never to take up smoking to begin with.
The irreversible effects of cigarette smoking vary in intensity and are related both to the amount and duration of exposure and the age at which the person is initially exposed. This report challenges the notion that a few years of exposure to smoking will have no lasting harmful consequences. We hope to discourage this prevalent but vital habit and suggest that tobacco-related health effects decline substantially as time away from smoking increases.

人們普遍認為吸煙成癮，所以戒煙主要是意志力的問題，而不是個人選擇的問題（與其說戒煙是個人選擇的問題，不如說是意志力的問題）。雖然心理咨詢和藥物治療能增加永久戒煙的概率，但避免進退兩難的最好方法是一開始就不吸煙。
吸煙帶來的不可逆的影響程度不同，且與煙癮和煙齡（年頭）有關，也與最初接觸煙的年齡有關。本報告挑戰的是一種觀點，即幾年的吸煙史不會產生長期的不良后果。我們希望勸說人們不要染上此常見但致命的習慣，并指出隨著戒煙時間的增加，煙草對健康產生的影響就會大幅度減少。

2.（2005.06） This book derives from decades of teaching in various schools across the country. It is based on the belief that philosophy is a genuinely exciting subject, accessible not only to gifted undergraduate majors but to everyone. Everyone is a philosopher, whether enrolled in a philosophical course or not. The difference is that someone who has studied philosophy systematically has the advantage of having encountered stronger and more varied arguments than might have been available otherwise. What is special about this book is that it offers introductory students the opportunity of having direct contact with substantial readings from significant books on philosophy, but without the unreasonable demand that they confront these books in full, which are often incomprehensible.
參考譯文：本書是在全國不同學校講課幾十年的結晶。它基于以下觀點：哲學的確是一門有趣的學科，不僅專家和一些有天賦的本科專業生可以使用哲學，人人都可使用。不論是否上過哲學課，每個人都是哲學家。區別在于：系統學習過哲學的人具有這樣的優勢，他們遇到的論點要比以其他方式遇到的論點更有說服力、種類更多。該書的特點是：它使初學者有機會直接接觸選自重要哲學著作并有實質內容的讀物，但并不過分地要求學生必須通讀這些很難讀懂的書籍。