1.You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal.

【难句释义】You will soon become an uneducated, ignorant person who can only work machines and operate mechanical equipment.

【难句解析】the push-button Neanderthal为new species of mechanized savage 的同位语。

2.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy.

【难句释义】If you are too eager to make money, or if you are too ignorant of seeing your limitations, to accept some of the thinking of Aristotle,or Chaucer, or Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human. You will become neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy.

【难句解析】 注意简单短语too...to“太...以至于不能”在句中的应用。同时此句既是一个省略句，又是一个运用了强调性并列连词neither...nor...的主从复合句。首先，or后面省略了if you are。其次，当我们表达两项并列的成分时，常使用一些固定的强调性并列连词将其加以连接。如：either...or,not only...but (also)..., not...but..., both...and...等等。