工程硕士研究生英语.ppt

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工程硕士研究生英语

Others dug out board games, reconnected to fax lines, stood in post-office lines and actually visited neighbors. It wasn’t easy. They were appalled to discover that going offline resulted in extra fees for using bank tellers, paper airline tickets and getting college course catalogs. One participant, attempting to catch up on the news, was forced to grapple with the archaic technology of the printed word. “(I) felt very inconvenienced at having to carry around the paper, which was cumbersome.” 棋盘游戏 acquire information about something 得到……的 try hard to solve a problem 努力解决 Plus, it cost money! The subjects reported feeling “out of the loop”. In the words of one poor soul, “every day without the Internet is frustrating.” Thirty-five times, the subjects were forced to break the digital fast, invoking a “lifeline” provision that permitted a one-time cyberspace fix. When the experiment was over, the participants bolted for their machines and once again became whole. Translate the underlined sentence: 总共有35次,受试者们忍不住终止了这种数字方面的禁食,求助于一条“救命索”约定,这一约定可以让他们过一次上网的瘾。实验结束的时候,参与者们飞快地奔向自己的电脑,又完全跟其融为一体了。 fast n. a period of fasting 禁食期;斋戒期 eg. The religious leader went on a fast for a week to protest the war in his country. 这个宗教领袖绝食一周,抗议这个国家的战争。 invoke v. to resort to; to use or apply 借助;求助于;使用;运用 eg. Through prayer, she invoked the help of God to cure her sick brother. 通过祈祷,她祈求上帝治愈他哥哥的病。 Para. 6 The results of these studies aren’t so surprising; Internet usage is routinely woven into the fabric of our Jetson-esque lives, to a degree that exceeds even the most optimistic prognostications of a decade ago. That’s why the Yahoo/OMD study has the flavor of a reality television show—going without broadband these days is scarier than anything the producers of “Fear Factor” can contemplate. predictions 预言 杰森式的生活 “谁敢来挑战” 宽带网 Para. 7 But there is a scarier prospect: the changes are just beginning. The very ubiquity and addictiveness of

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