1. By installing optical fiber, digital switches, and the latest wireless transmission systems, a parade of urban centers and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age.
    由于安装了光纤电缆、数字转换器和最新的无线传输系统，从北京到布达佩斯的一系列城区和工业区正在直接跨入信息时代。

2. The relations between the two countries are still fickle.
    两国间的关系依然变幻不定。

3. The Moon is likely to become the industrial hub of the Solar System, supplying the rocket fuels for its ships, easily obtainable from the lunar rocks in the form of liquid oxygen.
    月球很可能成为太阳系的工业中心。从月球上的岩石中很容易提炼出液态氧，作为航天飞船的燃料。

4. The anger and frustration displayed by people who do not understand what is happening to them will be a terrible and dangerous force in all the major industrial economies.
    那些不理解正在他们的身上发生着的事情的人们所表现出来的愤怒和失望将成为所有主要工业国家中的一股可怕和危险的力量。

5. Nature´s symphonic world was drowned by man´s industrial cacophony.
    大自然的和声世界被人类的工业噪音淹没了。

6. However, in the absence of plausible alternative explanations for the gloomy economic news of the past 15 — 20 years and the gloomier prospects implicit in the projections of those trends, industrial societies — fearful for the future — might very we
    然而, 由于对过去15-20年里令人感到沮丧的经济新闻和对那些趋势的反映中暗含的更为令人感到沮丧的前景没能作出其他令人信服的解释，工业社会因为害怕未来很可能会要采取倒退措施。

7. Home schooling could change children's relations with their peers and older people because of long periods spent with their parents.
    家庭学校可能改变孩子们与同龄人和大人的关系，因为孩子和家长待在一起的时间很长。

8. He thinks children must spend time with peers to learn the rules of work in a democratic(民主的) society and to learn how to deal with relations with more people than just their parents.
    他认为孩子们必须有时间和同龄人相处，以了解民主社会的工作规则，学会如何与更多人打交道，而不仅仅是与父母相处。

9. And don't just blame industrial societies.
    不要只是谴责工业社会。

10. So this is a very pregnant moment, not only for the future of America, but also for all of the mature industrial economies and, ultimately, for the world at large.
    因此这是个至关重要的时刻，这不仅仅对美国的未来、而且对所有成熟的工业化国家，并且最终对整个世界来说都是至关重要的。