海豚攻破长难句第十一期里的一句

3. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities - those of love and of reason - are the aims of all social arrangements.

这句话里的maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves.怎么理解？
be ends in themselves作何讲？

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原帖由 咿呀衣 于 2009-9-10 22:43 发表
3. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which ...

[s:3] 今天不扯语法，end有目标的意思；in themselves 本身，自身，然后这个句子的理解就么的问题了

学习了～
背单词很重要

补充下：
end: [n] aim，result intended

the end justities the means = you can do anything to achieve your aim
to this end ( with this end in mind ) = in order to do something
eg: We have decided to sell the house and to this end have put it in the hands of an estate agent.

原帖由 周杨平 于 2009-9-11 00:11 发表
这东西哪下的 我想看

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