我们被告知,我们在努力进入空间轨道的时候所获得的技术窍门将有助于我们在地球上生活得更好。但是太空竞争又做了些什么来救济地球上千百万在饥饿中挣扎的人们呢?它在哪一方面提高了我们中间任何一个人的生活水平呢?
As far as the layman is concerned, the practical results of all this expenditure of money and efforts are negligible.
照我们这些门外汉看,我们耗费那么多金钱和努力所取得的成就是微乎其微的。
Thanks to space research, we can now see television pictures transmitted live half-way across the globe and the housewife can use non-stick frying-pans in the kitchen. The whole thing becomes utterly absurd when you think that no matter what problems man overcomes, it is unlikely that he will ever be able to travel even to the nearest star.
供助于太空研究,我们现在得以看到越过全球现场直播的电视画面,厨房里的家庭主妇也用上了不粘锅。但是不管人类征服了多少困难,他也不可能去最近的星球上旅行。想想这个,你就会觉得整个这件事情荒谬绝伦了。
Poverty, hunger, disease and war are mans greatest enemies and the world would be an infinitely better place if the powerful nations devoted half as much money and effort to these problems as they do to the space race.
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