Directions: In this section there is a text in English. Translate the
five underlined sentences into Chinese.
People in business can use foresight to identify new products
and services, as well as markets for those products and services. An increase in
minority populations in a neighborhood would prompt a grocer with foresight to
stock more foods linked to ethnic tastes. (41) An art museum director
with foresight might follow trends in computer graphics to make exhibits more
appealing to younger visitors. Foresight may reveal
potential threats that we can prepare to deal with before they become crises.
(42) For instance, a capable corporate manager might see an alarming
rise in local housing prices that could affect the availability of skilled
workers in the region. The public’s changing values and priorities, as well
as emerging technologies, demographic shifts, economic constraints (or
opportunities ), and environmental and resource concerns are all parts of the
increasingly complex world system in which leaders must lead.
(43) People in government also need foresight to keep systems running
smoothly, to plan budgets, and to prevent wars. Government leaders today
must deal with a host of new problems emerging from rapid advances in
technology. Even at the community level, foresight is
critical：school officials, for example, need foresight to assess numbers of
students to accommodate, numbers of teachers to hire, new educational
technologies to deploy, and new skills for students (and their teachers) to
develop. (44) Many of the best-known techniques for
foresight were developed by government planners, especially in the military,
"thinking about the unthinkable". Pioneering futurists at the RAND
Corporation (the first " think tank ") began seriously considering
what new technologies might emerge in the future and how these might affect U.
S. security. These pioneering futurists at RAND, along with others
elsewhere, refined a variety of new ways for thinking about the future.
(45) The futurists recognized that the future world is
continuous with the present world, so we can learn a great deal about what may
happen in the future by looking systematically at what is happening now.