大学英语应用型综合教程第2单元课文1_2段.pptx

The Right to Privacy Is a Myth;Everywhere one turns these days it seems that the right to privacy is constantly under assault. If one is not being bothered by endless noise and information, then some company or government agency is asking questions probing for innermost feelings. Is nothing private anymore, nothing sacred to the individual? Can’t people live their own lives, be left alone to be themselves in this country? Don’t we all resent these intrusions? Then why do we permit such disregard for our privacy?;I was pondering these questions one night recently, in solitude, behind the closed doors of my room. As I began to write these thoughts down, my eyes wandered to the picture I had hung on the wall over my desk, and I had to laugh at myself. There I had put a copy of a Breughel painting, swarming with people and life. The figures in the painting were going about their business, and doing it, apparently, with all the more enjoyment, because they were in the presence of others. They didn’t seem to want or need privacy. Why was this? Is our passion for privacy just a recent, temporary phenomenon, destined soon to die away? ;最近不管去哪里都会发现隐私权似乎都不断地遭受攻击。人们要么被没完没了的噪音和?信息困扰，要么就被一些公司和政府机构问一些探究内心最深处感受的问题难道。难道对一?个人来说再也没有任何隐私了吗？再也没有任何神圣不可侵犯的事情了吗？在这个国家难道?人就不能过自己的生活，有自己的空间吗？我们不是都憎恨这些侵扰吗？那么为什么还容许?这些无视我们隐私的行 为发生呢？;最近的一个晚上我紧闭房门一个人在房间里思考着这些问题。当我开始写下这些想法的?时候，无意中瞟到桌子上方挂着墙上的那幅画，忍不住开始嘲笑自己。那是一副勃鲁罗盖尔?画家的复制品，画中满足各种人和生生活场景。在画中人们都在干自己的事情忙忙碌碌的，?显然，他们都兴致勃勃，因为有其他人在场。他们似乎，不想要或不需要隐私。为什么会这?样呢？难道我们对隐私的热情是最近才出现的短暂现象，并且注定将很快消亡吗？;assault;bothered;probing;innermost;sacred;resent; intrusions;Disregard ;solitude; swarming;apparently;presence ;谢谢大家！