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我的译文尽量照顾“信”、“达”。供参考。巧记方法若看不太明白，请阅读我以前的有关形象记忆的博文。---姚鸿恩

46. According to anthropologists, the earliest ancestors of humans that stood upright resembled chimpanzees facially, with sloping foreheads and protruding brows.

根据人类学家的说法，人类最早的能直立的祖先面孔像黑猩猩，额倾斜，眉突出。

chimpanzee，黑猩猩。用谐音形象记。浅盆鸡，喂黑猩猩。

47. Not until 1866 was the fully successful transatlantic cable finally laid.
直到1866年，横跨大西洋的电缆才完全地铺设成功。

cable，电缆。美国通常指有线电视。

48. In his writing, John Crowe Ransom describes what he considers the spiritual barrenness of society brought about by science and technology.
约翰·克劳·兰塞姆在他的著述中，描述了科学和技术带来社会的精神贫乏。

John Crowe Ransom，1888-1974年，美国诗人、评论家和教师。

bare，光秃的，缺乏的。barren，贫瘠的，贫乏的。加ness，变成名词。

49. Children with parents whose guidance is firm, consistent, and rational are inclined to possess high levels of self-confidence.

父母的指导是坚定的、一贯的和理性的，其孩子容易具有较高程度的自信。

incline，倾斜。用综合形象记忆。in，里面。c=长。line，线。里面长线倾斜。
inclined to，具有…倾向。

50. The ancient Hopewell people of North America probably cultivated corn and other crops, but hunting and gathering were still of critical importance in their economy.

古代北美Hopewell人可能种植玉米和其他农作物，但是，狩猎和采集在他们经济中仍然是至关重要的。

cultivate，种植，陶冶思想， 培养（友谊）。用串联法记。种植中，培养友谊、陶冶思想。cultivate 跟culture是同根词。culture，文化，也有养殖、培植的意思。

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51. Using many symbols makes it possible to put a large amount of information on a single map.

52. Anarchism is a term describing a cluster of doctrines and attitudes whose principal uniting feature is the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary.

53. Probably no man had more effect on the daily lives of most people in the Untied States than did Henry Ford a pioneer in automobile production.

54. The use of well-chosen nonsense words makes possible the testing of many basic hypotheses in the field of language learning.

55. The history of painting is a fascinating chain of events that probably began with the very first pictures ever made.