(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
Since the high-point of the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, liberals and republicans have invested great hope that national measurement frameworks could produce a more rational politics, organised around demonstrable improvements in social and economic life. The great theorist of nationalism, Benedict Anderson, famously described nations as "imagined communities", but statistics offer the promise of anchoring this imagination in something tangible. Equally, they promise to reveal what historical path the nation is on: what kind of progress is occurring? How rapidly? For Enlightenment liberals, who saw nations as moving in a single historical direction, this question was crucial.
自18世纪末启蒙运动达到高潮以来,自由派和共和党都对“国家能够构建一种围绕社会和经济生活明显改善而组织的更加理性的政治”寄予厚望
The potential of statistics to reveal the state of the nation was seized in post-revolutionary France. The Jacobin state set about imposing a whole new framework of national measurement and national data collection. The world's first official bureau of statistics was opened in Paris in 1800. Uniformity of data collection, overseen by a centralised cadre of highly educated experts, was an integral part of the ideal of a centrally governed republic, which sought to establish a unified, egalitarian society.
在后革命时代的法国,用统计数据来揭示国家状况的潜力被攫取了,雅各宾国家着手实施一套全新的国家测量和国家数据收集框架
From the Enlightenment onwards, statistics played an increasingly important role in the public sphere, informing debate in the media, providing social movements with evidence they could use. Over time, the production and analysis of such data became less dominated by the state. Academic social scientists began to analyse data for their own purposes, often entirely unconnected to government policy goals. By the late 19th, reformers such as Charles Booth in London and WEB Du Bois in Philadelphia were conducting their own surveys to understand urban poverty.
从启蒙运动开始,统计数据在公共领域扮演着越来越重要的角色:为媒体上的辩论提供信息,为社会运动提供他们可以使用的证据
词语解释
1.high-point 至高点;最好的状态
These years were the high-point of my professional and personal life.
这些年不管在专业领域还是私人领域,我都处于顶峰
2.set about doing sth 着手做
Armed with the information you have gathered, you can set about preparing your business plan.
有了这些信息,你就可以开始着手准备你的商业计划了
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