翻译练习：We Need A New Science Of Progress(2)

发展本身还正在被研究

Progress itself is understudied. By "progress," we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries. For a number of reasons, there is no broad-based intellectual movement focused on understanding the dynamics of progress, or targeting the deeper goal of speeding it up. We believe that it deserves a dedicated field of study. We suggest inaugurating the discipline of "Progress Studies."

发展本身还正在被研究。所谓“发展”，我们是说在经济上，技术上，传统上与组织进步的结合，这些进步在过去几个世纪转变了我们的生活，提高了我们的生活标准。由于一些原因，并没有一个广泛基础的学术运动来聚焦于理解发展的动态，或者专注于让发展加速的深层目标。我们相信发展值得成为一个专门的研究领域。我们建议开设“发展研究”这一学科。

我们仍然有许多问题尚未解决

Before digging into what Progress Studies would entail, it's worth noting that we still need a lot of progress. We haven't yet cured all diseases; we don't yet know how to solve climate change; we're still a very long way from enabling most of the world's population to live as comfortably as the wealthiest people do today; we don't yet understand how best to predict or mitigate all kinds of natural disasters; we aren't yet able to travel as cheaply and quickly as we'd like; we could be far better than we are at educating young people. The list of opportunities for improvement is still extremely long.

在具体说明发展研究这个专业将要承担什么内容之前，值得一提的是：我们仍然需要很多的进步。我们仍没有治愈所有疾病；我们仍不知道如何解决气候变化；让世界大多数的人都过上当今最富裕的人那样舒适的日子，我们仍有很长的路要走；我们仍然不明白如何预测或减轻所有的自然灾害；我们仍然不能以我们所想象的那样便捷地旅行；在教育年轻一代时，我们本可以做得更好。可改善项目的清单仍然是极端的超长。

小的进步促进大的发展

Those are major challenges. A lot of progress can also come from smaller advances: Thousands of lesser improvements that together build upon one another can represent an enormous advance for society. For example, if our discoveries and inventions improve standards of living by 1 percent a year, children will by adulthood be 35 percent better off than their parents. If they improve livelihoods at 3 percent a year, those same children will grow up to be about 2.5 times better off.

这个重大的挑战。很多的发展也可以来自小的进步：成千上万的小进步相互构建就能表现为社会巨大的进步。例如，如果我们每年的发明和发现能提高我们的生活水平1%，那么当孩子成年后，他们的生活水平将会比他们的父母提高35%。如果生活水平每年提高3%，那么这些孩子长大后生活水平将是他们父母的2.5倍。