邱东林 综合英语(研究生)重点句子翻译 1至7单元完整版
研究生综合英语3 unit 1, 2,3,7,8 原文+译文+重点【辛辛苦苦总结的期末资料】
1.Unit OneA Question of Degree对学位的质疑Perhaps we should rethink an idea fast becoming an undisputed premise of American life that a college degree is necessary(and perhaps even a sufficient) precondition for success.I do not wish to quarrel with the assumptions made about the benefits of orthodox education.I want only to expose its false god:the four-year, all-purpose,degree-granting college,aimed at the so-called college-age population and by now almost universally accepted as the stepping-stone to“meaningful”and “better”jobs.What is wrong with the current college/work cycle can be seen in the following anomalies:we are selling college to the youth of American as a take-off pad for the material good life.College is literally advertised and packaged as a means for getting more money through“better”jobs at the same time that Harvard graduates are taking jobs as taxi drivers.This situation is perversion of the true spirit of a university，a perversion of a humane social ethic and，at bottom，a patent fraud.To take the last point first,the economy simply is not geared to guaranteeing these presumptive “better”jobs;the colleges are not geared to training for such jobs;and the ethical propriety of the entire enterprise is very questionable.We are by definition(rather than by analysis)establishing two kinds of work:work labeled“better”because it has a degree requirement tagged to it and nondegree work,which,through this logic, becomes automatically“low level”.This process is also destroying our universities.The“practical curriculum”must become paramount;the students must become servants of big business and big government.Under these conditions the university can no longer be an independent source of scientific and philosophic truth-seeking and moral criticism.Finally,and most important，we are destroying the spirit of youth by making college compulsory at adolescence,when it may be least congruent with emotional and physical needs;and we are denying college as an optional and continuing experience later in life,when it might be most congruent with intellectual and recreational needs.Let me propose an important step to reverse these trends and thus help restore freedom and dignity to both our colleges and our workplaces.We should outlaw employment discrimination based on college degrees.This would simply be another facet of our“equal-opportunity”policy and would add college degrees to sex,age, race,religion and ethnic group as inherently unfair bases for employment selection.People would，wherever possible，demonstrate their capacities on the job.Where that proved impractical，outside tests could still serve.The medical boards，bar exams，mechanical，mathematical and verbal aptitude tests might still be used by various enterprises.The burden of proof of their legitimacy，however，would remain with the using agencies.So too would the costs.Where the colleges were best equipped to impart a necessary skill they would do so，but only where it would be natural to the main thrust of a university endeavor.The need for this rethinking and for this type of legislation may best be illustrated by a case study.Joe V.is a typical liberal-arts graduate，fired by imagination art and literature.He took a job with a large New York City Bank，where he had the opportunity to enter the“assistant manager training program”.The trainees rotated among different bank departments to gain technical know-how and experience and also received classroom instruction，including some sessions on“how to write a business letter.”The program was virtually restricted to college graduates. At the end of the line，the trainees became assistant bank managers：a position consisting largely of giving simple advice to bank customers and a modest amount of supervision of employees.Joe searched for some connection between the job and the training program，on the one hand，and his college-whetted appetites and skills on the other.He found nothing.In giving Joe preference for the training program,the bank had bypassed a few enthusiastic aspirants already dedicated to a banking career and daily demonstrating their competence in closely related jobs.After questioning his superiors about the system,Joe could only conclude that the“top brass”had some very diffuse and not-too-well–researched or even well-thought-out conceptions about college men. The executives admitted that a college degree did not of itself ensure the motivation or the verbal or social skills needed.Nor were they about what skills were most desirable for their increasing diverse branches.Yet they clung to the college prerequisite.Business allows the colleges to act as recruiting,screening and training agencies for them because it saves money and time.Why colleges allow themselves to act as servicing agents may not be as apparent.One reason may be that colleges are increasingly becoming conventional bureaucracies.It is inevitable,therefore,that they should respond to the first and unchallenged law of bureaucracy:expand!The more that college’s can persuade outside institutions to restrict employment in favor of theirclientele,the stronger is the college’s hold and attraction.This rational becomes even clearer when we understand that the budgets of public universities hang on the number of students“serviced”.Seen from this perspective,then,it is perhaps easier to understand why such matters as“university independence”or“the propriety”of using the public bankroll to support enterprises that are expected to make private profits, can be dismissed.Conflict of interest is difficult to discern when the interests involved are your own.What is equally questionable is whether a college degree,as such,is proper evidence that new skills that are truly needed will be delivered.A friend who works for Manpower Training Program feels that there is a clear divide between actual job needs and college-degree requirements.One of her chief frustration is the knowledge that many persons with ability to do paraprofessional mental-health work are lost to jobs they could hold with pleasure and profit because the training program also require a two-year associate art degree.Obviously,society can and does manipulate job status.I hope that we can manipulate it in favor of the greatest number of people.More energy should be spent in trying to upgrade the dignity of all socially useful work and to eliminate the use of human beings for any work that proves to be truly destructive of the human spirit. Outlawing the use of degrees as prerequisites for virtually every job that our media portray as“better”should carry us a long step toward a healthier society.Among other things,there is far more evidence that work can make college meaningful than that college can make work meaningful.My concern about this degree/work cycle might be far less acute;however,if everyone caught up in the system were having a good time.But we seem to be generating a college population that oscillates between apathy and hostility.One of the major reasons for this joylessness in our university life is that the students see themselves as prisoners of economic necessity.They have bought the media message about better jobs,and so they do their time.But the promised land of“better”job is, on the one hand,not materializing,and on the other hand the students is by now socialized to find such“better”jobs distasteful even if they were to materialize.One of the major improvements that could result from the proposed legislation against degree requirements for employments would be a new stocktaking on the part of all our educational pulsory schools,for example,would understand that the basic skills for work and family life in our society would have to be compressed into those years of schooling.Colleges and universities,on the other hand,might be encouraged to be unrestricted,as continuous and as open as possible.They would be released from the pressures of ensuring economic survival through a practical curriculum.They might best be modeled after museums.Hours would be extensive，fees minimal，and services available to anyone ready to comply with course-by-course demands.College under these circumstances would have a clearly understood focus，which might well be the traditional one of serving as gathering place for those persons who want to search for philosophic and scientific“truths”.This proposal should help our universities rid themselves of some strange and gratuitous practices.For example，the university would no longer have to organize itself into hierarchical levels：B.A.,M.A.,PH.D.There would simply be courses of greater and lesser complexity in each of the disciplines.In this way graduate education might be more rationally understood and accepted for what it is——more education.The new freedom might also relieve colleges of the growing practice of instituting extensive“work programs,”“internships”and“independence study”programs.The very names of these enterprises are tacit admissions that the campus itself is not necessary for many genuinely educational experiences.But,along with “external degree”programs,they seem to pronounce that whatever one has learned in life by whatever diverse and interesting routes cannot be recognized as increasing one’s dignity,worth,usefulness or self-enjoyment until it is converted into degree credits.The legislation I propose would offer a more rational order of priorities.It would help recapture the genuine and variegated dignity of workplace along with the genuine and more specialized dignity of the university.It would help restore to people of all ages and inclinations a sense of their own basic worth and offer them as many roads as possible to reach Rome.Vocabulary1.What look like generous hire-purchase terms are fundamentally just encouragement to the customer to spend his very last penny.【at bottom】2.A lot of viewers complain that there is too much crime and needless sex and violence on TV.【gratuitous无端的】3.I read a brief extract of Erving Goffman's new detective novel on the train and it has rather aroused my appetite for mysteries.【whetted引起】4.The article simply records the political changes of the last year,but it doesn't offer an honest appraisal of the government's achievements.【stocktaking评价估量】st week the city government warned that it would consider legislation to forbid smoking in public places.【outlaw不合法】6.Is it not something of an oddity to have a President of one political persuasion and a Prime Minister of another.【anomaly异常】7.These bigger companies have the money,but they don't always have the expertise to get the job done right.【know-how技能】8.As a member of the club,you must abide by its rules and regulations,otherwise you'll be punished severely.【comply with遵照，遵守】9.Asked whether she would like to work with Jack in my office，Mary replied"No" with obvious distaste.【patent显然的】10.There are many priorities,but reducing the budget deficit as soon as possible is more important than anything else.【paramount最高的】1.What monstrous perversion扭曲of the human spirit leads a sniper to open fire on a bus carrying children2.His writing is so diffuse冗长，obscure and overwrought that it is difficult to make out what it is he is trying to say3.We were in a hurry so we decided to bypass忽略Canterbury because we knew there'd be a lot of traffic there.4.The office director insisted that there was no question as to the propriety合适ofhow the benevolent funds were raised.5.Hector has been trying to get his job upgraded升级for years,but management won't because they'd have to pay him more.6.As a moody young adolescent,Mandy oscillates波动between joyous enthusiasm and melodramatic despair,most especially when it comes to boys.7·How successful they were would hang on坚持下去the speed with which the product could be distributed to the shops.8.Judging by the books sold，this young writer seems to have a strong hold over the reading public.9.If I were you,I would never allow my daughter to attend a such apathy冷漠exists among both the students and teachers.10.She rose,came up to me and said:“Could you provide me with a clear rationale 解释for taking this course of action"2.Unit Two The Middle Class中产阶级The middle class is distinguishable more by its earnestness and psychic insecurity than by its middle income.I have known some very rich people who remain stubbornly middle-class,which is to say they remain terrified at what others think of them,and to avoid criticism are obsessed with doing everything right.The middle class is the place where table manners assume an awful importance...The middle class,always anxious about offending,is the main market for"mouthwashes," and if it disappeared the whole"deodorant"business would fall to the ground.中产阶级有另别于其他阶级的特征是他们一本正经的生活态度和缺乏安全感的精神状态，而不是他们的中等收入。
(完整word版)研究生基础综合英语邱东林版课后翻译答案1-8
课后文章翻译Unit 1李明是学化学的，性格开朗幽默，颇有魅力,但英语成绩不佳,每次只能勉强及格.老师警告他,英语不好会阻碍他拿奖学金，并亮出了自己的王牌:如果李明不努力，就让他考试不过关.老师还告诉他，学习英语不能只为了文凭，否则他即使大学毕业，也还是个半文盲。
李明虽然保持镇定，但他明白，他的学业生涯正在攸关之际，必须安心下来埋头学习，坚持不懈。
Li Ming was a chemistry major，a charmer noted for his easygoing and humorous temperament。
However, his English was so poor that he always barely got by. The teacher admonished him that his poor English would be an impediment to scholarship. What’s more，she showed her trump card：if Li Ming did not work hard. She would flunk him。
He was also told that he should not learn English merely for the sake of his diploma, otherwise，even after graduation from university，he would still be semiliterate. Although Li Ming did not lose his composure，he was well aware that he had to settle down to work and follow through because his academic life was at stake。
邱东林 综合英语(研究生)重点句子翻译 1至7单元完整版
Unit 1Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational-repair shops — adult-literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing.最后，少数幸运者会进入教育维修车间—— 成人识字课程，我教的一门关于基础语法和写作的课程就属于这种性质.…prior to teaching this class I blamed the poor academic skills our kids have today on drugs, divorce and other impediments to concentration necessary for doing well in school在教这门课之前，我将孩子们的学力能力差归咎于毒品、离婚Mrs. Stifter looked at me steely-eyed over her glasses史蒂夫特夫人从眼镜上方冷冷地看着我…at night school I see a parade of students who are angry and resentful for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up我在夜校中看见了一群愤怒、怨恨的学生，他们愤恨的原因是学校让他们一路混，直到他们甚至都无法再假装跟得上Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills让没有掌握本领的学生通过考核，既欺骗了他们,也欺骗了期望毕业生拥有基本技能的雇主Young people generally don‟t have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it年轻人往往不够成熟，不会像我的成人学生们那样重视教育But fear of failure, whether economic or academic, can motivate both但是对于失败的恐惧，无论这种恐惧是经济方面的还是学术方面的，都能对年轻人和成年人起到激励作用Flunking as a regular policy has just as much merit today as it did two generations ago让学生不及格，作为一种常规手段，其优点在今天依然和两代之前一样多It would mean facing the tough reality that passing kids who haven‟t learned the material — while it might save them grief for the short term — dooms them to long-term illiteracy这意味着要面对一个严酷的现实，即让没有学会知识的孩子通过考试—— 虽然从短期看可以让他们免受痛苦—— 却注定会让他们长期饱受不会读写之苦Unit 2My ivory silk gown was being quarantined somewhere in Singapore我订的象牙色的丝绸礼服被隔离在新加坡的某个地方I switched from navigating wedding plans to navigating the health-care system我从操办婚礼转向指导保健After consulting with doctors, we learned that stomach surgery was Mom’s only option. We took the first opening.咨询医生后，我们得知胃部手术是妈妈唯一的选择。
研究生基础综合英语（邱东林版）课文中英对照加课后习题答案
研究生基础综合英语（邱东林版）课文中英对照加课后习题答案Unit One：EducationText：In Praise of the F Word对F的赞美Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won’t look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates.Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate.今年，将有成千上万的18岁学生毕业并被授于毫无意义的文凭。
这些文凭对每个人都是一样的,没有一点差别，而不管学生的成绩如何.但当雇主发现他们没有实际能力时，文凭的有效性就会被质疑。
Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational repair shops-adult-literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There, high school graduates and high school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school . They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.即使少数幸运的人找到了成人进修的地方，像我教语法和写作的地方。
研究生基础综合英语(邱东林版)中英对照
Unit One：EducationText：In Praise of the F Word对F的赞美Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won’t look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates.Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate.今年，将有成千上万的18岁学生毕业并被授于毫无意义的文凭。
这些文凭对每个人都是一样的,没有一点差别，而不管学生的成绩如何.但当雇主发现他们没有实际能力时，文凭的有效性就会被质疑。
Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational repair shops-adult-literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There, high school graduates and high school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school . They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.即使少数幸运的人找到了成人进修的地方，像我教语法和写作的地方。
基础综合英语课后习题翻译_邱东林版
Unit 11.Our youngest,a word-class charmer,did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by Unti l Mrs.Stifer.我们的小儿子是个世界级的万人迷,学习不怎么动脑筋,但是总是能蒙混过关,直到Mrs.Stifer成为他的老师,这种局面才得以改变.2.No one seems to stop to think that ----no matter what environment they come from---most kids don’t put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at stake.似乎没有人停下来想想看,无论还在来自何种环境,他们当中大多数若不是发现情况到了危机关头,才不会把功课当成头等大事呢。
3.Of average intelligence or above ,they eventually quit school,concluding they were too dumb to finish这些学生智力水平至少也算中等,但是最终都退学,他们总结说自己太笨,学不下去了.4.Young people generally don’t have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it年轻人往往不够成熟,不会像我的成年学生那样重视教育5.It is an expression of confidence by both teachers and parents that student have the ability to learn the material presented to them.这表明老师和家长都对学生有信心,相信他们能够学好发给他们的学习资料.6.This means no more doing Scott’s assignments for him because he might fail . No more passing Jodi because she’s such a nice kid.这意味着再也不要因为担心斯科特会不及格而替他做作业,再也不要因为朱迪是个乖孩子而放她过关.Unit 21.I had always dreamed of being proposed to in a Parisian cafe , under dazzling stars , like the one in a Van Gogh knockoff that hangs in my studio apartment .Instead , my boyfriend asked me to marry him while I was Windexing the bathroom mirror.我一直有这样的梦想,星光灿烂的晚上,在一家巴黎咖啡馆就像梵高所画的“一夜的咖啡馆”我的工作室墙上就有一幅此画的翻本，然而我男朋友却在我用的“稳得新”擦洗卫生间镜子的时候叫我嫁给他。
邱东林_基础综合英语(研究生)_1至7单元完整版-课文翻译
Unit 1 对F的赞美1今年将有好几万的十八岁青年毕业，他们都将被授予毫无意义的文凭。
这些文凭看上去跟颁发给比他们幸运的同班同学的文凭没什么两样.只有当雇主发现这些毕业生是半文盲时，文凭的效力才会被质疑。
2最后，少数幸运者会进入教育维修车间——成人识字课程，我教的一门关于基础语法和写作的课程就属于这种性质。
在教育维修车间里，高中毕业生和高中辍学生将学习他们本该在学校就学好的技能，以获得同等学力毕业证书。
他们还将发现他们被我们的教育体系欺骗了。
3在我教课的过程中，我对我们的学校教育深有了解。
在每学期开始的时候,我会让我的学生写一下他们在学校的不快体验.这种时候学生不会有任何写作障碍！“我希望当时有人能让我停止吸毒，让我学习。
"“我喜欢参加派对，似乎没人在意.”“我是一个好孩子，不会制造任何麻烦，于是他们就让我考试通过，及时我阅读不好,也不会写作。
”很多诸如此类的抱怨。
4我基本是一个空想社会改良家，在教这门课之前我将孩子们的学习能力差归咎于毒品、离婚和其他妨碍注意力集中的东西，要想学习好就必须集中注意力。
但是，我每一次走进教室都会再度发现，一个老师在期望学生全神贯注之前,他必须先吸引学生的注意力，无论附近有什么分散注意力的东西。
要做到这点,有很多种办法，它们与教学风格有很大的关系。
然而,单靠风格无法起效，有另一个办法可以显示谁是在教室里掌握胜局的人。
这个办法就是亮出失败的王牌。
5我永远也忘不了一位老师亮出那张王牌以吸引我的一个孩子的注意.我的小儿子是个世界级的万人迷，学习不怎么动脑筋却总能蒙混过关.直到施蒂夫特夫人当了他的老师，这种局面才彻底改变了。
6当她教我儿子英语时，我儿子是一个高中高年级学生。
“他坐在后排和他的朋友说话.”她告诉我。
“你为什么不把他换到前排来？”我恳求道。
我相信令他难堪的做法会让他安心学习。
施蒂夫特夫人从眼睛上方冷冷地看着我.“我不会换高年级学生的座位."她说，“我会给他们不及格的成绩."我大感紧张。
新时代研究生综合英语课本的1单元到9单元课文的翻译
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• Blind spot (vision), also known as the physiological blind spot, the specific scotoma in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the optic disc • Blind spot (automobile), areas of the road that cannot be seen while looking forward or through either the rear-view or side mirrors in an automobile • Blind spot (psychology), subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment • －Golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it.
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Unit 1Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational-repair shops — adult-literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing.最后，少数幸运者会进入教育维修车间—— 成人识字课程，我教的一门关于基础语法和写作的课程就属于这种性质.…prior to teaching this class I blamed the poor academic skills our kids have today on drugs, divorce and other impediments to concentration necessary for doing well in school在教这门课之前，我将孩子们的学力能力差归咎于毒品、离婚Mrs. Stifter looked at me steely-eyed over her glasses史蒂夫特夫人从眼镜上方冷冷地看着我…at night school I see a parade of students who are angry and resentful for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up我在夜校中看见了一群愤怒、怨恨的学生，他们愤恨的原因是学校让他们一路混，直到他们甚至都无法再假装跟得上Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills让没有掌握本领的学生通过考核，既欺骗了他们,也欺骗了期望毕业生拥有基本技能的雇主Young people generally don‟t have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it年轻人往往不够成熟，不会像我的成人学生们那样重视教育But fear of failure, whether economic or academic, can motivate both但是对于失败的恐惧，无论这种恐惧是经济方面的还是学术方面的，都能对年轻人和成年人起到激励作用Flunking as a regular policy has just as much merit today as it did two generations ago让学生不及格，作为一种常规手段，其优点在今天依然和两代之前一样多It would mean facing the tough reality that passing kids who haven‟t learned the material — while it might save them grief for the short term — dooms them to long-term illiteracy这意味着要面对一个严酷的现实，即让没有学会知识的孩子通过考试—— 虽然从短期看可以让他们免受痛苦—— 却注定会让他们长期饱受不会读写之苦Unit 2My ivory silk gown was being quarantined somewhere in Singapore我订的象牙色的丝绸礼服被隔离在新加坡的某个地方I switched from navigating wedding plans to navigating the health-care system我从操办婚礼转向指导保健After consulting with doctors, we learned that stomach surgery was Mom’s only option. We took the first opening.咨询医生后，我们得知胃部手术是妈妈唯一的选择。
医院一有床位我们就住进去了。
Until then, my idea of cooking had been microwaving the doggie bag from the chi-chi restaurant I’d eaten at the night before.在此之前，做法对我来说就是把头天晚上从花哨饭店里吃剩下打包回来的饭菜在微波炉热一下。
Forget Paris. Mom’s full recovery was my dream now.忘记巴黎。
妈妈的彻底康复才是我现在的梦想Unit 3In sequential testimony, each one stated that he did not believe tobacco was a health risk and that his company had taken no steps to manipulate the levels of nicotine in its cigarettes在随后的证词中，每个人都陈述自己不相信烟草会给健康带来风险，而且自己的公司从未采取措施来操纵香烟中尼古丁的含量The tobacco companies publicly rejected such claims, even as they took advantage of cigarettes‟ addictive potential by routinely spiking them with extra nicotine to make it harder to quit smoking.虽说烟草公司公开否认这些说法，但当时他们已经利用香烟的致瘾性来赚钱了，他们加大尼古丁含量，将烟民勾住，使得戒烟愈发困难By asking narrow questions and responding to them with narrow research, they provided precisely the cover the industry sought.”他们靠问一些片面的问题，并用片面的研究来解答，从而为烟草业提供了他们恰好需要的挡箭牌。
Unit 4Con artists and real artists, advertisers and freedom fighters, lovers and sworn enemies — they’ve all flocked to e-mail as they would to any new medium of expression真假艺术家、广告商、为自由而战的英勇卫士、恋人、不共戴天的敌人—— 他们纷纷涌向电子邮件，一如他们涌向任何一种新的表达工具。
People write books, conduct advertising or other campaigns, commit online crimes through e-mail. 著书、一系列活动的展开、犯罪—— 皆可通过电子邮件。
To skeptics, e-mail is just the latest chapter in the evolving history of human communication. To the people who are against the conventional beliefs, email is only a new method of human communication. 对于怀疑论者而言，电子邮件不过是人类交流演变史上最新的一个章节。
It captures the essence of life at the close of the 20th century with an authority that few other products of digital technology can claim一个地下组织已经声称对这起炸弹爆炸事件负责。
在20世纪末它以大多数别的数字技术产品所不具备的权威效力捕捉了生活的本质E-mail simultaneously allows us to cope with the acceleration and contributes to it电子邮件在帮我们应对这种加速的同时，又助长了加速的发生he globe-spanning Internet is one of the most important technological innovations of the last half of this century, then we must give e-mail — the living embodiment of human connection across the Net — pride of place这部时间跨度将近四分之一世纪的影片讲述的是亨利·希尔的故事。
他的职业生涯持续了16 年。
---His professional career spanned 16 years. 如果我们承认遍及全球的因特网是本世纪后半叶最重要的技术创新之一的话，我们就必须赋予电子邮件—— 人们通过网络相互联系的真实体现—— 一席荣耀之地。
When research scientists first began cooking up the Internet’s predecessor, the Arpanet, in 1968, their primary goal was to enable disparate computing centers to share resources当科学家们于1968年最早策划因特网的前身阿尔派网时，他们的首要目标是使不同的计算机中心分享资源It seems that what all those top computer scientists really wanted to use the Internet for was as a place to debate, via e-mail, such crucially important topics as the best science-fiction novel of all time.似乎那些顶级计算机科学家真正想做的，是把因特网作为一个通过电子邮件探讨哪部科幻小说最棒之类重要话题的场所E-mail seemed to me some kind of Promethean gift perfectly designed to help me cope with the irreconcilable pressures of new-fatherhood and fulltime freelance writing.当我第一个孩子1994年出生的时候，电子邮件对我来说好似普罗米修斯的礼物，恰好帮我应对初为人父和全职自由撰稿之间不可协调的压力。