Beneath the rhetoric, however, there is considerable unease that the economic benefits of science spending are being oversold.

但是，在这些花言巧语下面，有科学花费的经济效益正在被超卖的相当多的不安。

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Science spending was huge, the space race was going at full speed, the education level of the population increased dramatically.

科学投入巨大，太空竞赛正在全速进行，全民的教育水平急剧增长。

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Some countries, ranging from Rwanda and Tanzania in East Africa, to Egypt and Morocco in the North and South Africa in the South, have steadily increased their science spending.

从东非的卢旺达和坦桑尼亚，到北非的埃及和摩洛哥，再到非洲南部的南非，一些国家已经稳步增加了它们的科学开支。

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In any event, Poland's entire science spending is less than the budget of a single middle-sized American university.

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So the question may well be not so much whether we prioritise our science spending to suit our economic and social priorities - but rather - to what degree do we do this.

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And it has treated science well, spending on both high-quality facilities and the research that is done in them.

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