1. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least' a few decisions for them- selves-goals that pose a real challenge.

　　[參考譯文] 但是如果機(jī)器人要達(dá)到節(jié)省人工的下一個(gè)階段，它們將必須在更少的人力監(jiān)督之下工作，而且還要能夠自己作出至少幾個(gè)決定--這些目標(biāo)才會(huì)引發(fā)真正的挑戰(zhàn)。

　　2. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 8 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd.

　　[參考譯文] 但是人類的頭腦可以只迅速地瞟一眼一個(gè)快速改變的場(chǎng)面，然后立刻放棄8%的不相關(guān)部分，而馬上聚焦于一條崎嶇森林道路邊的一只猴子，或者在茫茫人海中的一 張可疑的臉。 3. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 18, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25---0.5% of GDP.

　　[參考譯文] OECD在其最近的《經(jīng)濟(jì)瞭望》中估計(jì)，如果石油價(jià)格與18年的每 桶13美元相比在一年中平均為每22美元，這也只會(huì)給富裕的經(jīng)濟(jì)體的 石油進(jìn)口賬單上增加GDP的0.25%到0.5%。

　　4. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 170s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.

　　[參考譯文] 另外一個(gè)不應(yīng)因油價(jià)上漲而失眠的原因是，這次不像70年代的那些次上漲，它并不是在普遍的商品價(jià)格暴漲和全球需求過(guò)旺的背景之下發(fā)生的。

　　5. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects--a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen--is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.

　　[參考譯文] 盡管它裁決并沒(méi)有憲法權(quán)利來(lái)支持醫(yī)生幫助下的自殺行為，最高法院實(shí)際上支持了被稱為"雙重效果"的醫(yī)療原則;這個(gè)已有幾個(gè)世紀(jì)歷史的道德原則認(rèn)為一個(gè)可能 有兩個(gè)效果的行為--一個(gè)想要達(dá)到的好的效果和一個(gè)已經(jīng)預(yù)見(jiàn)到的有害的效果是被允許的，如果行為的實(shí)施者想要的 只是好的效果的話。

　　6. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death."

　　[參考譯文] Nancy Dubler，Montehore醫(yī)療中心的主任，認(rèn)為這一原則將會(huì)保護(hù)這樣一些醫(yī)生，他們到目前為止還強(qiáng)烈堅(jiān)持他們不能夠給病人足量的鎮(zhèn)痛劑來(lái)控制他們的疼痛，如果這么做會(huì)加速他們的死亡的話。