Assignment 1-科技翻译.ppt

Assignment 1 But the collapse of the dot-com economy and the high-tech Nasdaq in 2000, and the prospects of a serious economic slowdown at this writing in 2001, have put the fabled new economy in a different light. 但是,2000年网络经济崩溃,高新技术板块的纳斯达克指数大跌, 2001年本文写作时经济面临严重衰退.这一切都使得虚幻的新经济成为明日黄花. The fantasy that everyone can become rich in the information economy has soured in today’s reality, and many now wonder whether they will keep their job or be able to meet their rent and pay off their credit cards. 网络经济时代人人都可暴富的神话,被今天的现实击得粉碎.现在许多人都不知道能否保得住工作,能否付得起房租,能否付得清信用卡的透支款. We are learning that the boom never really did reach millions of Americans, since the bulk of the new wealth created in the 1990s was pocketed mainly by the very rich. 我们开始明白,千百万美国人根本没有从这次经济繁荣中受益,因为20世纪90年代所创造的大量新财富主要都被富人纳入囊中. Moreover, much of the new wealth turned out to be pure illusion, paper wealth that could vanish as magically as it had appeared.  而且,很多新财富现在看来纯粹是一场镜花水月.纸面财富来得快,去得也快. * * *