Generalization概括We began with a generalization: human beings are great generalizers. Every race has its proverbs, and proverbs generalizations. “It never rains but it pours”. “Faint heart never won fair lady.” “Familiarity breeds contempt.” Sometimes, of course, these proverbs are incompatible with each other, as in “absence makes the heart grow fonder,” and “Out of sight, out of mind.”Listen attentively to those around you, and note the generalizations that float into every conversation: Women drivers are the most careless. Professors are absent-minded. The Irish are alcoholics. Gentlemen prefer blondes. Politicians are crooks. The French are great lovers. People on welfare don’t want to work. And so on. After more of the same we may be tempted to agree with Justice Holmes that “the chief end of man is to frame general propositions, and no general proposition is worth a damn.”译文：我们以一个笼统的概括作此文的开始：人是伟大的概括者。
每一个民族都有自己的谚语，而谚语就是概括。
“祸不单行”“胆怯者赢不到美人。
”“近之则不逊。
” 当然，有时这些谚语内容抵触，互不相容，如“久别胜新婚”和“离久情疏”既如此。
仔细倾听周围人们的谈话，注意期间的这类概括：女人开车最不小心；教授都心不在焉；爱尔兰人是酒鬼；男人们喜欢碧眼金发的女郎；政客们是骗子；法国人是情种；靠福利救济生活的人不愿意干活。
如此等等。
这类话听多了以后，可能会诱使我们去同意最高法院法官霍姆斯的话：“人们的主要结论是做出笼统的判断，而笼统的判断一文不值。
”温哥华加拿大的温哥华1986年刚刚度过百岁生日，但城市的发展令世界瞩目。
以港立市，以港兴市，是许多港口城市生存发展的道路。
经过百年开发建设，有着天然不冻良港的温哥华，成为举世闻名的港口城市，同亚洲、大洋洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲均有定期班轮，年货物吞吐量达到8，000万吨，全市就业人口中有三分之一从事贸易与运输行业。
温哥华(V ancouver)的辉煌是温哥华人智慧和勤奋的结晶，其中包括多民族的贡献。
加拿大地广人稀，国土面积比中国还大，人口却不足3000万。
吸收外来移民，是加拿大长期奉行的国策。
可以说，加拿大除了印第安人外，无一不是外来移民，不同的只是时间长短而已。
温哥华则更是世界上屈指可数的多民族城市。
现今180万温哥华居民中，有一半不是在本地出生的，每4个居民中就有一个是亚洲人。
而25万华人对温哥华的经济转型起着决定性的作用。
他们其中有一半是近5年才来到温哥华地区的，使温哥华成为亚洲以外最大的中国人聚居地。
译文:In 1986, V ancouver, Canada, just marked its centennial anniversary, but the achievements made by the city in its urban development have already captured worldwide attention. To build up a city and model its economy on the basis of a harbor is the usual practice that port cities resort to for their existence and development.After a century’s construction and development, V ancouver, which boasts of a naturally-formed ice-free harbor, has become an internationally celebrated port city, operating regular ocean liners with Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America. Its annual cargo-handling capacity reaches 80 million tons, with one third of the city’s employed population engaged in trade and transportation business.The glorious achievements of V ancouver is the crystallization (fruition) of the wisdom (intelligence) and the industry of the V ancouver people as a whole, including the contributions made by a diversity of ethnic minorities. Canada is a large country with a small population. Although its territory is bigger than that of China, it only has a population of less than 30 million people. Consequently, to attract and to accept foreign immigrants have become a national policy long observed by Canada. It can be safely asserted that, except for Indians, all Canadian citizens are foreign immigrants, differing only in the length of time they have settled in Canada. V ancouver, in particular, is one of the few most celebrated multi-ethnic cities in the world. At present, among the 1.8 million V ancouver residents, half of them are not native-born and one out of every four residents is from Asia. The 250,000 Chinese there have played a decisive role in facilitating thetransformation of the V ancouver economy. Half of them have come to settle in V ancouver only over the past five years, making V ancouver the largest area outside Asia where the Chinese concentrate.生儿育女的目的In some societies people want children for what might be called familial reasons: to extend the family line or the family name, to propitiate the ancestors; to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places.In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife; to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. The point is underlined by its converse: in some societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce.Beyond all that is the profound significance of children to the very institution of the family itself. To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family -they need children to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence of offspring. Children need the family, but the family seems also to need children, as the social institution uniquely available, at least in principle, for security, comfort, assurance, and direction in a changing, often hostile, world. To most people, such a home base, in the literal sense, needs more than one person for sustenance and in generational extension.(参考译文)在某些社会中，人们希望拥有孩子是出于所谓的家庭原因：传宗接代，光宗耀祖，博取祖辈的欢心，使那些涉及到整个家族的宗教仪式得以发挥其应有的作用。