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Technology – a Resource

We find ourselves today between a forest and an ocean a forest of new knowledge and an ocean of need. We are generating more new knowledge in one year than we generated in a full decade less than half a life-span ago. In fact, if you look upon the last 50,000 years of man's existence in terms of life-spans, the speed of our progress the pace of change is readily apparent. Because 800 modern life-spans would bridge more than 50,000 years. But of those 800 people 650 would have spent their lives in caves or something worse; only the last 70 had any truly effective means of communicating with one another; only the last six ever saw a printed word; only the last six had any real means of measuring heat and cold; only the last four could measure time with any precision; only the last two used an electric motor; and many of the items that make up our material world were developed within the life-span of the 800th person.

Задание 29. Переведите предложения, уделяя внимание значениям слова time.

1. Times change. 2. Arrange so that you get in time. 3. The resources of thorium are nearly three times as great as the resources of uranium. 4. What may be done at any time, is done at no time. 5. They time to the minute. 6. The test was timed to begin in a week. 7. The decision was made out of time. 8. Lost time is never found again. 9. They responded to the request in no time. 10. We observed and at the same time registrated the course of events. 11. We take the value constant for the time being. 12. They raised the problem before time. 13. They did it in no time.


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