大学英语综合教程 第四册 Unit 6B

[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