1. Economic development depends on political stability.
    经济发展依靠政治稳定。

2. * schools, teachers, and books to transmit what has been discovered by science; and
    * 学校、教师和书籍来传播科学上的发现；以及

3. Every year, on Independence Day, our Prime Minister Nehru spoke of the benefits of science and technology.
    每年的独立日，我们的总理尼赫鲁都要讲一讲科学技术的好处。

4. Expand your world. Many discoveries in science, engineering and the arts mix ideas from different fields. Consider "The Two-String Problem."
    拓展你的视野。许多理工和人文科学方面的发现都融合了不同领域中的思想。以"两绳问题"为例。

5. Education of African women has become a top priority for political activists.
    非洲妇女的教育已经成为政治活动家们着重优先考虑的问题。

6. Beijing is the political , economic and cultural centre of China.
    北京是中国的政治、经济和文化中心。

7. But, in contrast, it is only in modern times that Galileo has become a problem child for historians of science.
    但是相比之下，对于科学史家来说，伽利略只是在现代才变成了一个新的难题。

8. But this hope is always in the realms of science fiction.
    但是，这种希望总是只在科幻小说中存在。

9. Back in the early 1960s, when the laser was first being developed, it was viewed by some as a fascinating research tool, others called it a science-fiction toy.
    追溯到二十世纪六十年代初期,当激光最初被开发利用时，一些人视之为神奇的科研工具，另一些人则称之为科幻小说里的玩具。

10. But it was good to know that they had gathered for European science the first specimens of that dreaded fish.
    但是令人欣慰的是他们为欧洲的科学家们搜集了这种可怕的鱼的第一批标本。