PPT《继续教育学院》

ve got a cell phone, e-mail and voice mail. But why am I so lonely? A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to each other. revolution: A revolution in a particular area of human activity is an important change in that area. 重大变革;

巨大变化The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in ship design Continued I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There they were, talking and talking on a beautifully sunny day and I became invisible, absent from the conversation.interrupt: If someone or something interrupts a process or activity, they stop it for a period of time.The match took nearly three hours and was interrupted at times by raininvisible: If you describe something as invisible, you mean that it cannot be seenParents fear they might overstep these invisible boundaries Continued The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing other people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pet their puppies. Evidently, the untethered electronic voice is preferable to human contact. unthered: not tied or limited with or as if with a tether (似)不被绳索捆束的,不受约束的 Continued The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends zooming down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a gadget designed to make communication easier. used to:过去常常做;

be used to:现在习惯做He used to drink a lot but now he is used to doing exercise.zoom down: go quickly 飞驰gadget: A gadget is a small machine or device which does something usefulHer favorite gadget is her personal ipod Continued Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a setback to the intimacy of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine. Why is it that----It is why that 强调句型It is in Changchun that this car is made---Where is it that this car is made?setback: A setback is an event that delays your progress or reverses some of the progress that you have made.He has suffered a serious setback in his political career Continued As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can'

t even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.conceivable: If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it.Without their support the project would not have been conceivable...alienantion index:疏远指数directory A directory is a book which gives lists of facts, for example people'

s names, addresses, and telephone numbers, or the names and addresses of business companies, usually arranged in alphabetical order. (通常按字母顺序排列的)通讯录,姓名住址录,工商行名录 Continued Pumping gas at a station? Why say good morning to the attendant when you can swipe your credit card (刷信用卡) at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neigh........