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美国文化衰退的现象已经引起了许多美国人的悲叹。美国民意研究所过去二十年来对美国人读书情况的调查,使美国科学协进会的机关刊“科学”周刊大感忧虑。因为这个刊物发现:最近,美国成年人读书的不超过17%,和其他几个国家的百分比形成一个可悲的对照:加拿大31%,澳大利亚34%,英国55%。更可悲的是,许多大学毕业生连“美国的悲剧”、“草叶集”、“物种起源”等书的作者是谁都答不出来。当然,对美国青年来说,不知道著名的美国文学家、美国大诗人和英国大科学家的姓名,并不是他们的过错.美国大学中讲授达尔文进化论的教授不是还曾经被当作资产阶级的“异端分子”吗?美国的出版商人最近不是还准备出版一种叫
The decline of American culture has aroused the laments of many Americans. The investigation by the Institute for American Public Opinion over the past two decades in the study of Americans has caused great concern for Science Week magazine, the organ of the American Institute for Scientific Research. Because this publication found that recently, no more than 17% of American adults study, forming a sad contrast with the percentages of several other countries: 31% in Canada, 34% in Australia and 55% in the United Kingdom. Even more sadly, many college graduates can not even answer the author’s book, such as The Tragedy of the United States, The Blade of Grass, The Origin of Species. Of course, it is not their fault for young Americans not to know the names of famous American writers, big American poets and big British scientists.The professor who taught Darwin’s theory of evolution at American universities is not the one who once was treated as a bourgeois “ Heresy ”? The U.S. publisher is not yet ready to publish a name recently