大学英语综合教程 第三册 3textA

[05:03.33]we did not think much about what such a state of affairs says about the quality of our lives.
[05:10.33]We now pass through these electronic friskers without so much as a sideways glance;
[05:16.94]the machines,and what they stand for,have won.
[05:21.91]14 Our neighborhoods are bathed in high-intensity light;we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow.
[05:30.97]15Businessmen,in increasing numbers,are pruchasing new machines that hook up to the telephone and analyze a caller's voice.
[05:40.40]The machines are supposed to tell the businessman,with a small margin of error,whether his friend or client is telling lies.
[05:49.44]16 All this is being done in the name of"security";that is what we tell ourselves.We are fearful,
[05:57.30]and so we devise ways to lock the fear out,and that we decide,is what security means.
[06:05.69]17 But no;with all this "security,"we are perhaps the most insecure nation in the history of civilized man.
[06:15.01]What better word to describe the way in which we have been forced to live?
[06:20.60]What sadder reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time?
[06:26.95]18 We trust no one.Suburban housewives wear rape whistles on their station wagon key chains.
[06:35.83]We have become so smart about self-protection that,in the end,we have all outsmarted ourselves.
[06:43.77]We may have locked the evils out,but in so doing we have locked ourselves in.
[06:50.31]19 That may be the legacy we remenber best when we look back on this age:
[06:56.71]In dealing with the unseen horrors among us,we became prisoners of ourselves.All of us prisoners,in this time of our troubles.