大学英语综合教程第四册 13
[00:00.00] Come on,admit it-you like living at breakneck speed.
[00:05.64]LIFE IN THE FAST LANE by James Gleick
[00:11.13]We are in a rush. We are making haste.A compression of time characterzies many of our lives.
[00:19.80]As time-use reserchers look around,they see a rushing and scurrying everywhere.
[00:27.53]Sometimes cultureresembles "one big stomped anthill," say John P.Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey in their book Time for Life
[00:38.95](1) Instantaneity rules.Pollsters use electronic devices during poilitical speeches to measure opinions on the wing
[00:49.19]before they have been fully formed;fast-food restaurants add express lanes.Even reading to children is underpressure.
[00:59.43]The volume One-Minute bedtime Stories cinsists of traditional stories that can be ready by a busy parent in only one minute
[01:10.14]There are places and objects that signify impatience.The door-close button in elevators,
[01:18.71]so often a placebo used to distract riders to whom ten seconds seems an eternity.Speed-dial buttons on telephones.
[01:30.41]Remote controls,which have caused an acceleration in the pace of films and television commercials.
[01:38.17]Time is a gentle deity,said Sophocles.Perhaps it was,for him.These days it cracks the whip.We humans have chosen speed.
[01:51.02]and we thrive on it-more than we generally admit.Our ability to work and play fast gives us power.It thrills us.
[02:01.84]And if haste is the accelerator pedal,multitasding is overdrive.These days it is possible to drive, eat
[02:12.55]listen to a book and talk on the phone-all at once,if you dare.David Feldman,in New York,
[02:21.43]schedules his tooth flossing to coincide with his regular browsing of online discussion groups.
[02:29.47]He has learned to hit PageDown with his pinkie.Mike Holderness,in London,watches TV with captioning
[02:39.48]so that he can keep the sound off and listen to the unrelated music of his choice.An entire class of technologies
[02:50.24]is dedicated to the futherance of multitasking.Car phones.Bookstands on exercise machines.Waterproof shower radios
[03:02.10]Not so long ago, for most people,listening to the radion was a single task activity.
[03:09.83]Now it is rare for a person to listen to the radio and do nothing else.
[03:16.23]Even TV has lost its command of our foreground.In so many households the Tvjust stays on,
[03:26.08]like a noisy light bulb,while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering glow.
[03:34.33](3)A sense of well-being comes with this saturation of parallel pathways in the brain.
[03:41.00]We choose mania over bored boredom every time.
[03:46.14]"Humans have never,ever opted for slower,"point out the historian Stephen Kern.
[03:54.08]We catch the fever-and the fever feels good.We live in the buzz."It has gotten to the point where my days,
[04:04.90]crammed with all sorts of activities,feel like an Olympic endurance event:the everydaython,
[04:13.78]confesses Jay Walljasper in the Utne Reader.
[04:19.37]All humanity has not succumbed equally,of course.If you make haste,you probably make it in the technology-driven world
[04:29.09]Sociologists have also found that increasing wealth and increasing deucation bring a sense of tension about time
[04:38.96]We believe that we posses too little of it.No wonder Ivan Seidenberg,an American telecommunications executive,
[04:49.67]jokes about the mythical Day Doubler program his customers seem to want:Using sophistiated time-mapping
[05:00.43]and compression techniques,Daydoubler gives you access to 48 hours each and every day.At the higher numbers
[05:10.80]DayDoubler becomes less stable,
[05:15.04]and you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the beginning of time to he present
[05:22.56]couldcrash down around you,sucking you into a suspended time zone."
[05:29.59]Our culture views time as a thing to hoard and protect.
[05:35.36]Timesaving is the subject to scores of books with titles like Streamlining Your Life;Take Your Time
[05:45.39]More Hours in My Day.Marketers anticipate our desire to save time,
[05:53.25]and respond with fast ovens,quick playback,quick freezing and fast credit.
[06:01.51]We have all these ways to"save time,"but what does that concept really mean?Does timesaving mean getting more done?
[06:12.01]If so,does talking on a cellular phone at the beach save time or waste it?If you can choose between a 30-minute train ride
[06:23.35]during which you can read,and a 20-minute drive,during which you cannot,does the drive save ten minutes?
[06:32.80]Does it make sense to say that driving saves ten minutes from your travel budget
[06:38.68]while removing ten minutes from your reading budget?
[06:43.51]These questions have no answer.They depend on a concept that is ill formed:the very idea of timesaving
[06:53.83]Some of us say we want to save time when really we just want to do more--and faster.
[07:01.98]It might be simplest to recognise that there is time and we make choices about how to spend it,
[07:10.99]how to spare it,how to use it and how to fill it.
[07:16.48]Time is not a thing we have lost.It is not a thing we ever had.It is what we live in.
[07:25.26]haste characterize on the wing under pressure
[07:30.08]急忙 以……为特征 正在进行中 承受压力的
[07:34.90]volume signify thrill browse
[07:39.95]被催逼的 意呋 非常激动 浏览
[07:45.01]caption waterproof forth parallel
[07:49.96]给……加标题 防水的 向前 平行的
[07:54.91]opt buzz endurance confess
[07:59.46]作出抉择 激动不安 忍耐力 供认
[08:09.93]难怪 冒危险 中止 范围
[00:05.64]LIFE IN THE FAST LANE by James Gleick
[00:11.13]We are in a rush. We are making haste.A compression of time characterzies many of our lives.
[00:19.80]As time-use reserchers look around,they see a rushing and scurrying everywhere.
[00:27.53]Sometimes cultureresembles "one big stomped anthill," say John P.Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey in their book Time for Life
[00:38.95](1) Instantaneity rules.Pollsters use electronic devices during poilitical speeches to measure opinions on the wing
[00:49.19]before they have been fully formed;fast-food restaurants add express lanes.Even reading to children is underpressure.
[00:59.43]The volume One-Minute bedtime Stories cinsists of traditional stories that can be ready by a busy parent in only one minute
[01:10.14]There are places and objects that signify impatience.The door-close button in elevators,
[01:18.71]so often a placebo used to distract riders to whom ten seconds seems an eternity.Speed-dial buttons on telephones.
[01:30.41]Remote controls,which have caused an acceleration in the pace of films and television commercials.
[01:38.17]Time is a gentle deity,said Sophocles.Perhaps it was,for him.These days it cracks the whip.We humans have chosen speed.
[01:51.02]and we thrive on it-more than we generally admit.Our ability to work and play fast gives us power.It thrills us.
[02:01.84]And if haste is the accelerator pedal,multitasding is overdrive.These days it is possible to drive, eat
[02:12.55]listen to a book and talk on the phone-all at once,if you dare.David Feldman,in New York,
[02:21.43]schedules his tooth flossing to coincide with his regular browsing of online discussion groups.
[02:29.47]He has learned to hit PageDown with his pinkie.Mike Holderness,in London,watches TV with captioning
[02:39.48]so that he can keep the sound off and listen to the unrelated music of his choice.An entire class of technologies
[02:50.24]is dedicated to the futherance of multitasking.Car phones.Bookstands on exercise machines.Waterproof shower radios
[03:02.10]Not so long ago, for most people,listening to the radion was a single task activity.
[03:09.83]Now it is rare for a person to listen to the radio and do nothing else.
[03:16.23]Even TV has lost its command of our foreground.In so many households the Tvjust stays on,
[03:26.08]like a noisy light bulb,while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering glow.
[03:34.33](3)A sense of well-being comes with this saturation of parallel pathways in the brain.
[03:41.00]We choose mania over bored boredom every time.
[03:46.14]"Humans have never,ever opted for slower,"point out the historian Stephen Kern.
[03:54.08]We catch the fever-and the fever feels good.We live in the buzz."It has gotten to the point where my days,
[04:04.90]crammed with all sorts of activities,feel like an Olympic endurance event:the everydaython,
[04:13.78]confesses Jay Walljasper in the Utne Reader.
[04:19.37]All humanity has not succumbed equally,of course.If you make haste,you probably make it in the technology-driven world
[04:29.09]Sociologists have also found that increasing wealth and increasing deucation bring a sense of tension about time
[04:38.96]We believe that we posses too little of it.No wonder Ivan Seidenberg,an American telecommunications executive,
[04:49.67]jokes about the mythical Day Doubler program his customers seem to want:Using sophistiated time-mapping
[05:00.43]and compression techniques,Daydoubler gives you access to 48 hours each and every day.At the higher numbers
[05:10.80]DayDoubler becomes less stable,
[05:15.04]and you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the beginning of time to he present
[05:22.56]couldcrash down around you,sucking you into a suspended time zone."
[05:29.59]Our culture views time as a thing to hoard and protect.
[05:35.36]Timesaving is the subject to scores of books with titles like Streamlining Your Life;Take Your Time
[05:45.39]More Hours in My Day.Marketers anticipate our desire to save time,
[05:53.25]and respond with fast ovens,quick playback,quick freezing and fast credit.
[06:01.51]We have all these ways to"save time,"but what does that concept really mean?Does timesaving mean getting more done?
[06:12.01]If so,does talking on a cellular phone at the beach save time or waste it?If you can choose between a 30-minute train ride
[06:23.35]during which you can read,and a 20-minute drive,during which you cannot,does the drive save ten minutes?
[06:32.80]Does it make sense to say that driving saves ten minutes from your travel budget
[06:38.68]while removing ten minutes from your reading budget?
[06:43.51]These questions have no answer.They depend on a concept that is ill formed:the very idea of timesaving
[06:53.83]Some of us say we want to save time when really we just want to do more--and faster.
[07:01.98]It might be simplest to recognise that there is time and we make choices about how to spend it,
[07:10.99]how to spare it,how to use it and how to fill it.
[07:16.48]Time is not a thing we have lost.It is not a thing we ever had.It is what we live in.
[07:25.26]haste characterize on the wing under pressure
[07:30.08]急忙 以……为特征 正在进行中 承受压力的
[07:34.90]volume signify thrill browse
[07:39.95]被催逼的 意呋 非常激动 浏览
[07:45.01]caption waterproof forth parallel
[07:49.96]给……加标题 防水的 向前 平行的
[07:54.91]opt buzz endurance confess
[07:59.46]作出抉择 激动不安 忍耐力 供认
[08:09.93]难怪 冒危险 中止 范围
