All would be well were reason the only judge in the creationism and evolution debate.
    【解析】助動(dòng)詞were被提前置于主語(yǔ)reason前，可以判定為部分倒裝;此處倒裝的原因是由于虛擬條件句中if被省略而引起的，句子還原就是：If reason were the only judge in the creationism and evolution debate, all would be well .
    【譯文】如果理性是創(chuàng)造論和進(jìn)化論的爭(zhēng)論中的評(píng)判標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的話(huà)，那么所有的事情就很好辦了。
    附加句：For example, they do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
    【解析】句子也出現(xiàn)了虛擬語(yǔ)氣的倒裝：had he grown up under more favorable circumstances，完整的表達(dá)是if he had grown up under more favorable circumstances.
    they是指示代詞，指代前文的測(cè)試;compensate for：彌補(bǔ);inequality：不公平，不平等，不相同
    tell：說(shuō)明，表明;underprivilieged：貧困的、物質(zhì)條件差的
    【譯文】例如，測(cè)試并不能彌補(bǔ)明顯的社會(huì)不公，因此就不能說(shuō)明一個(gè)物質(zhì)條件很差的人，如果在更加有利的條件下成長(zhǎng)，會(huì)有多么能干。