On-line Reading Unit 5
Keys
(1) Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can testify that their students' writing exhibits a tendency toward a superficiality that wasn't seen, say, 10 or 15 years ago.
小学,中学和大学的数千位老师可以证明学生们的写作出现了流于肤浅的趋向,这在十或十五年前是没有的.
(2) It renders them incapable of engaging in an activity that now is perceived as strenuous, because it is not a passive hypnotized state.
这使得他们不能专心于这种现在被认为是累人的活动,因为这不是被动的,令人恍惚的状态.
(3) These really are forms of verbal TV – literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel in the same sensations they experience when watching television.
这些其实都是文字形式的电视——能使读者沉迷于与看电视同样的感受之中的肤浅的文学.
(4) What I find particularly appropriate about this myth as it applies today is that, first, the Cyclops imprisons these men in darkness, and second, he beats their brains out before he devours them.
在我看来,这个神话之所以与如今的情况尤为相关,一是在于独眼巨人将这些人囚禁于黑暗之中,二是在于他在吞吃他们之前先砸烂他们的脑子.
(5) Even important moral questions suffered distortion when they were reduced to TV images.
甚至重要的道德问题在沦为电视形象时也被歪曲了.
II.
80年代出生的年轻人具有自身鲜明的特点.他们的理想更远大,自我意识更强.他们有更多的机会做出自己的选择,表达自己的意见.他们从不爱理会家长或老师的说教.他们有自己崇拜的偶像,自己追逐的时尚,甚至自己独特的方式在BBS或者博客上相互交流."超女"已经取代了灰姑娘,成为他们心中完美的女性形象.由于早在童年时就已经接触到了外来文化,他们中的一些人多少已被美国化了.他们希望过独立的生活而不想总让家长牵着鼻子走.他们还渴望自由,以至于他们中的某些人会被认为是以自我为中心,缺乏对他人的关心.
The young people who were born in the 1980's have their distinctive features. They are more ambitious and self-conscious. They are given more opportunities to make their own choices and express their opinions. Preaching of parents or teachers is never welcome to them. They have their own idols to worship, own fashion to pursue, even their own particular way to communicate on BBS or Blog. "Super Voice Girls" have replaced Cinderella to become the ideal image of the female in their mind. Being exposed to foreign cultures from their childhood, some of them are more or less Americanized. They want to live an independent life and don't want to be tied to the mother's apron strings all the time. They also look forward to freedom, so much so that some of them may appear to be self-centered and lacking in consideration for other.