In other words, eugenics, a concept, which the writer thankfully abandoned shortly thereafter.

换句话说，优生，一个概念，谢天谢地，作者不久就放弃了。

The intersection of eugenics and IQ testing influenced not only science, but policy as well.

优生学和智之间形成的关联不仅影响了科学，也影响了政策。

But I think because eugenic idea was so much what that period is about...World War II was about...

但我认为因为优种概念正是那个时期...二战时主导思想。

And we tried to fit in then every other person into one of these categories, and that...really influenced eugenics.

我们图让所有人都归入这些人种类型，这确实影响了优生学。”

Somewhat unsurprisingly there was so much eugenics.

毫不奇怪，有如此多的优生学。

But also, in the United States, there were eugenic experiments and eugenic laws.

而且，在美国，有优生学实验和优生法。

When such calculations enter the process, it is similar to eugenics.

当这样的计算进入过程时， 它类似于优生学。

He's a proponent of eugenics, according to his student Plato.

据他的学生柏拉图说，他是优生学的支持者。

Social Darwinism became of a piece with eugenics in the popular culture.

社会达尔文主义在流行文化中成为优生学的一部分。

Outside their extreme brutality, however, Nazi eugenic policies reflected similar standards across the globe.

然而， 除了极端残暴之，优生政策在全球范围内反映了类似的标准。

At best, that meant understanding it; at worst, it involved sinister forms of control, as in Julian's lifelong enthusiasm for eugenics.

往好了说，是了解世界；往坏了说，就是用邪恶的方式掌控世界，朱利安毕生对优生学的热情就是个例子。

There was a eugenics rising, and my grandparents realized, pretty quickly I think, that they were on the wrong side of the eugenics equation.

当时有一种优生学正在兴起，我想我爷爷，应该很快就明白，在优生学方面，他们选错边站了。

And in fact, we can just go back one century to the last century to see the power that eugenics can have.

实际上，我们只要回到上个世纪，就能看到优生学带来了什么影响。

By the late 1960s, research into human genetics was more nuanced, and bioethics had begun to blunt eugenics’ influence.

到 1960 年代后期， 对人类遗传学的研究更加细致入微，生物伦理学开始削弱优生学的影响。

I think, for instance, of our own history: our resistance to co-education for so long or our leadership at one time in eugenics.

比如，历史上我们曾错误地认为男女不应该同校，以及引领了“优生运动”的风潮。

Sure, that may sound like a noble plan but eugenics spiraled into extreme discrimination against people deemed " unfit" to procreate.

当然，这听起来像是一个崇高的计划，但优生学却演变成对那些被认为“不适合”生育的人的极端歧视。

He also embraced eugenics, writing about how he believed black people to be inferior to white people in Notes on the State of Virginia.

他还信奉人种改良学，他在《弗吉尼亚州笔记》中写道，他认为黑人劣于白人。

At that time, many people believed in eugenics, the idea that desirable and undesirable genetic traits could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding.

当时，很多人都相信优生学（eugenics），形容理想和不理想的遗传性状可以且应该通过选择性育种来控制。

Under the influence of eugenics, scientists used the results of the military initiative to make erroneous claims that certain racial groups were intellectually superior to others.

在优生学的影响下，科学家们利用军事倡议的结果，提出了一种错误的主张：某些种族的人们在智力上优于其他种族。

Another absolutely ridiculous belief running rampant the 1920s was something called eugenics, the idea that we should control the genetic traits passed down in society.

另一个在 20 年代盛行的绝对荒谬的信念是所谓的优生学，即我们应该控制社会上传承的遗传特征的想法。