• 这种长远的视角使对人类前景悲观的看法更加可 能是昙花一现。诚然，未来不可能一切都是美好 的。但是我们拥有足够的知识去减少威胁早期人 类生存的种种风险，去改善未来人类的命运。
精品 PPthree vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona’s immigration law Monday — a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration. But on the more important matter of the Constitution, the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration’s effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.
• 今天技术的潜在发展及其社会后果是极为复杂的， 或许最好还是让科幻小说作家和未来学家来探索 我们能够设想的众多可能性吧。这是我们最近出 版《弧形》杂志的原因之一，这个新出版物将专 注于探究不远的将来。
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• This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad. To be sure, the future is not all rosy. But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.
• 《宪法》的原则是无可争议的，只有华盛 顿有权“制定统一的入籍规范”，联邦法 高于地方法。
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• Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court’s liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun. On the overturned provisions the majority held the congress had deliberately “occupied the field” and Arizona had thus intruded on the federal’s privileged powers.
• 白宫称亚利桑那州的法案与联邦政府的执法优先 权相矛盾，即便州法律与联邦法一字不差。事实 上，白宫声称如果不认同原本合法的地方法律， 就可以认定其无效。
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• The administration was in essence asserting that because it didn’t want to carry out Congress’s immigration wishes, no state should be allowed to do so either. Every Justice rightly rejected this remarkable claim.
• 实质上，联邦政府是在主张，因为它不想执行国 会的移民管理意愿，所以各州也不允许这么做。 每位法官都公正地拒绝了这一异乎寻常的主张。
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• Straitford’s briefs don’t sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong.
• 安东尼·肯尼迪法官，以及约翰·罗伯茨大法官和 最高法庭的自由党们，裁定亚利桑那州过于靠近 联邦政府的权力中心。关于被推翻的条款，大多 数法官认为国会已有意“占地盘”，因此亚利桑 那州侵犯到了联邦政府的特权。
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• Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court’s liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun. On the overturned provisions the majority held the congress had deliberately “occupied the field” and Arizona had thus intruded on the federal’s privileged powers.
• 斯特拉特福德的简报不像政府简报那样闪 烁其词，政府为了不出错而避免做出引人 注目的陈述。
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• Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal.
• 这种时装业自上而下的概念太过时了，与 伊丽莎白·克莱恩在《过度着装》一书中所 描绘的狂热世界不相一致，该书是她历时 三年对“快时尚”的控诉。
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• Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.
• 虚荣心不会变，人只有负担不起的时候才 会在购物的时候考虑可持续性。
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• Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.
• 听到有人指控研究环境下动物遭到残酷对 待，很多人都感到很困惑，竟会有人故意 伤害动物。
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• To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
• 周一最高法庭以5:3的投票结果否决了亚利桑那州移民法 的大多数条款——这对奥巴马政府来说，是一次政策方面 的小胜利。但是在更重要的《宪法》方面，奥巴马政府试 图打破联邦政府与各州之间的权利平衡，而该法庭以8:0 的投票使其落空。
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• The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to “establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization ” and that federal laws precede state laws are noncontroversial.
• 由于不能确定用户是真的反对接收行为广 告，还是仅仅使用微软的默认设置，有些 广告公司可能会忽视“不要追踪”的信号， 而继续发送这类广告。
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• Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.
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• This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverish world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast fashion”.
• 如果从更广阔的视角看看人类在宇宙中的 位置，就会明白我们就算不能存活数十万 年，也大可以存活个数万年。
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• The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage. That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.
• 三位投反对票中的两位——塞缪尔·阿利托和克拉伦斯·托 马斯认同宪法逻辑，但是在亚利桑那州哪些条款与联邦法 有冲突的问题上，未能达成一致意见。唯一的强烈反对意 见来自安东尼·斯卡利亚 法官，他甚至追溯到《客籍法和 政治叛乱发》，强烈维护州政府的特权。