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的关联不仅影响了科学，也影响了政策。

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，能看到优生学带来了什么影响。

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，了解世界；往坏了，用邪恶的方式掌控世界，朱利安毕生对优生学的热情个例子。

Eugenicists sought, by combining, in the words of J.B.S.Haldane, the offices of “the policeman, the priest and the procurer”, to control both the actions of their social inferiors and the course of evolution.

优生学家根据遗传学家尔丹的学，并与警方、牧师和拉皮条者通力合作，力图控制弱势群体的行为和人类的进化过程。

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，应该很快明白，在优生学方面，他们选错边站了。

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。

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。

Indeed, we might look back at an American doctor and eugenicist called Leo Stanley.

确实， 我们可以回顾一下美国的一位名叫莱奥·斯坦利的医生兼优生学家。

We see it in eugenics, the eugenics policies.

我们看到了优生学，也优生学政策。

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。

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。

Their skulls were sent to Germany for examination by eugenicist scientists.

他们的头骨被送往德国接受优生学家的检验。

It is easy to revile the eugenicists or mock the pyramidologists.

辱骂优生学家或嘲笑金字塔学家很容易。

But nevertheless, positive eugenics of that sort does have a bad rap.

但无论如何，那种积极优生学确实名声不好。

And somebody else started saying, you're a eugenicist.

有人开始，你个优生学家。

The other ones are social Darwinism and eugenics.

其他的则社会达尔文主义和优生学。

Have you changed your views about eugenics?

你改变对优生学的看法了吗？

In Germany, they're particularly sensitive to this kind of thing, given their history of eugenics.

在德国，鉴于他们历史上与优生学有关的经历，他们对这类事情特别敏感。

He's come under fire for applying these principles to issues of eugenics.

他因将这些原则应用于优生学问题而受到抨击。

He was called the Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London, but he's the one who changed it to the Galton Professor of Genetics and absolutely distinguished himself from eugenics and World War II racism and so forth.

他伦敦大学学院优生学的加尔顿教授，但他本人将这一职位更名为加尔顿遗传学教授，并明确与优生学及第二次世界大战期间的种族主义等划清了界限。