他们只是得到对治疗腹泻病根本无用的昂贵抗生素。

Instead, they are given expensive antibiotics that are useless in treating diarrhoea.

如果说意大利是个身患某些疑难杂症的病人，老贝更像是病症而非病根。

If Italy is a patient with some peculiar complaints, Mr Berlusconi is more symptom than cause.

现代科学立足于主客二元论、本质主义还原论和因果决定论之上，这正是“现代性危机”的病根。

Modem science is based upon subject - object dualism, essentialist reductionism and causal determinism. Those are the source of "the crisis of modernity".