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英语难句分析及翻译 1. For instance, early textile-mill entrepreneurs, in justifying women’s employment in wage labor, made much of the assumption that women were by nature skillful that detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repetitive chores; the mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order hoary stereotypes associated with the homemaking activities they presumed to have been the purview of women. 2. The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses all its force if the assumptions on which it is based are slightly changed, whereas an argument that is convincing though imprecise may well be stable under small perturbations of its underlying assumptions. 3. Is it not tyrannical, in Pascal’s sense, to insist that those who exel in “sensitivity” or “the ability to express compassion ” merit equal wealth with those who excel in qualities (such as “the capacity for hard work”) essential in producing wealth? 4. The questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power struggle in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholars – only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers – will be at stake, and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society. 5. For the woman who is pracitioner of feminist literary criticism, the subjectivity versus objectivity, or critic-as-artist-or-scientist, debate has special significance; for her, the question is not only academic, but political as well, and her definition will court special risks whichever side of the issue it favors. 6. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufactures and servicing trades thought their customers wanted,