Please help with translating one sentence

[xh207hi]

用研究试验工作成果为有计划地发展国民经济和多快好省地进行生产建设提供科学技术的依据，是我国科学技术工作者光荣而艰巨的使命。

 

It's part of the speech about modernizing science and technology sector in China, speech is from 1963. The overall point is that scientists work and achievements must prove useful for the development of the country, but I'm not sure how to translate this exact sentence... If you need more context, please let me know.

[Lu]

What a horrible sentence. That doesn't require context, it requires an axe to split it up.

 

First, make sure you understand all the words in this sentence.

 

Failing an axe, try segmenting it at the function words (if that is the right term):

用研究试验工作成果/为有计划地/发展国民经济/和/多快好省地/进行生产建设/提供科学技术/的依据，是我国科学技术工作者/光荣而艰巨/的使命。

Once you've gotten an idea of what this sentence is doing grammatically, translate it as literally as you can, nevermind correct English grammar or fluency. After that, you can polish it until you have something that resembles good English. Don't be afraid to split it up into more than one sentence.

 

I hope that helps a bit. I'm sorry I'm not translating it for you, sentences like this are a pain.

[xh207hi]

Horrible, isn't it? ;)

 

Thanks for this help anyway, now I got the idea of how to translate it!

[Johnchao222]

Horrible 

The difficulty of this translation can reach the level of our colloge entrance english examinations. Hah，Lu did a good job to offer you a grammatically way to explain it.

[shm511]

wow this sentence seems quite...bulky in Chinese

seems that adding a few commas does a lot better.

透過研究试验工作成果，为有计划地发展国民经济，並多快好省地进行生产建设提供科學技術上的依据，是我国科学技术工作者光荣而艰巨的使命。