7. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column', "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."

　　[參考譯文] "對任何一個民主社會的考驗，"他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中 寫到，"不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達，而在于這個社會是 否能給予思考和表達的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結(jié)果是多么 的富有爭議或令人不快…"

　　8. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society's ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

　　[參考譯文] 在-上個月的股東大會上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說："音樂不是 社會問題的原因"，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克 斯的一個教師，并用說唱音樂與學(xué)生們進行溝通。

　　9. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" of "a touch on the brakes" , makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

　　[參考譯文] 有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如"輕踩剎車"以"操縱經(jīng)濟軟著 陸"，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。沒有什么比這更遠離實際 情況的了。

　　10. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America's, have little productive slack.

　　[參考譯文] 經(jīng)濟學(xué)家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹數(shù)據(jù)尤其感到驚訝，因為傳 統(tǒng)的計量方法顯示兩國的經(jīng)濟，特別是美國的經(jīng)濟，幾乎沒有生產(chǎn)蕭條 的時候