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

换句话说，优生，一概念，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.

优生学和智商测试之间形成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时期...二战时纳粹主导思想。

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

我们试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.

据他学生柏拉图说，他优生学者。

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， 除了极端残暴之外，纳粹优生政策在全球范围内反映了类似标准。

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，了解世界；往坏了说，就用邪恶方式掌控世界，朱利安毕生对优生学热情就例子。

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， 对人类遗传学研究更加细致入微，生物伦理学开始削弱优生学影响。

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

当然， 这听起来像一崇高计划， 但优生学却演变成对被认为“不适合” 生育人极端歧视。

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”风潮。

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.

在优生学影响下，科学家们利用军事倡议结果，提出了一种错误主张：某些种族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.

另一在 20 年代盛行绝对荒谬信念所谓优生学，即我们应该控制在社会中传递遗传特征想法。