1、题目：For Conversation Press#1谈话按# 1第一段：1. Ive got a cell phone, email and voice mail. But why am I so lonely?我有手机、电子邮件和语音邮件.可是我为什么还感到如此孤独呢 ?第二段：2. A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another.在信息革命的前进道路上发生了一件滑稽的事情,我们不再互相交谈了。第三段：1. I was walking
2、in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation.最近我和一位朋友正在公园里散步,突然他的手机响了起来 ,打断了我们的谈话。2. There they were, talking on a beautifully sunny day and I became invisible, absent from the conversation.那是一个阳光明媚的日子, 他们就在那儿谈啊谈，而我却被遗忘，成了谈话的局外人。 第四段：1. The park was fill
3、ed with people talking on their cell phones. 公园里到处都是正在打手机的人。2. They were passing other people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pet their puppies. 他们经过别人身边时,既不抬眼看看，也不大声招呼，更注意不到他们带的孩子 ,或停下来抚弄一下他们的小狗。3. Evidently, the untethered electronic voice is preferable
4、to human contact.显然,人们更爱使用这种不受约束的电子声音通话来相互联系。第五段：1. The telephone used to connect you to the absent. 过去电话是让你同不在身边的人联系的。2. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. 现在它使坐在你旁边的人感到冷落。3. Recently I was in a car with three friends.最近我与三个朋友一起乘车。4. The driver hushed the rest of us because he cou
5、ld not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone.司机嘘了一声，让我们别出声，因为他无法听清另一端的人在说什么。5. There we were, four friends zooming down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a gadget designed to make communication easier. 我们四个朋友坐在车里，飞驰在高速公路上，却因为这种装置设计使得不能相互交谈。第六段：1. Why is it that the m
6、ore connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? 为什么我们联系的越多我却感到失去了联系呢?2. Every advance in communications technology is a setback to the intimacy of human interaction. 通讯技术的每一项进步都是人类亲密交往的一种倒退。3. With email and instant messaging over the internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to
7、 one another.有了因特网上的电子邮件和即时通信,我们现在的通讯可以不必彼此会面或交谈。4. With voice-mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. 有了有声邮件，你可以进行整个对话而不必面对任何人。5. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.如果我妈妈有问题问我 , 我只需把答案留在留言机上就行了。第七段：1. As almost every conceivable contact
8、 between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. 随着人们之间几乎每一种可以想到的联系方式都变得自动化起来,疏远指数在不断上升。2. You cant even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more.你甚至不再能够给某个人打个电话，询问另一个人的电话号码。3. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.因为电话咨询服务几乎完全是自动化的。第八段：1. P
9、umping gas at the station? 你在加油站加油吗?2. Why say good morning to the attendant when you can swipe your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?既然你可以用信用卡在加油泵旁自动刷卡，免除与人打交道的麻烦，何必还要对加油站的工作人员打招呼呢?第九段：1. Making a deposit at the bank? 你在银行存款吗？2. Why talk to a clerk who might liv
10、e in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into the ATM?为什么要同职员可能住在邻近地区, 既然你可以将信用卡插入自动取款机提款，何必还要和可能与你同住一个街坊的银行员说话呢?第十段：1. Pretty soon you wont have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery store. 用不了多久，你就不必劳神在杂货店里同人面对面打交道。2. Some supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so yo
11、u can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing.一些超市连锁店正在使用自动扫描仪，你可以自己结账, 避免那些令人心恼的店员，他们总是看着你问长问短。第十一段：1. I am no Luddite. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice mail system, an email account.我并不反对自动化。我也有手机,自动取款机卡,有声邮件系统和电子邮件帐号。2. Giving them up isnt an option-they are great for what they are great for what they are intended to do.放弃这些东西并不可取人们赋予它们的功能太美妙了。3. It s their unintended consequences that make me cringe.只是他们无意中带来的后果, 却使我感到畏缩。
