In these modern times, almose anything is possible, nothing seems to be beyond the reach of science.
在这个现代社会里,几乎所有的事情都有可能会发生,似乎没有任何事情是科学解决不了的。
This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the'happy few' during the past centuries.
这说明,经过了多么漫长的时间之后,我们才认识到,有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。