【英语时差8，16】享受阅读报纸的乐趣
时间：2019-02-15 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
英语课
Last month, our English Department invited a local radio star to deliver a public lecture on the topic of media influence on society. He described the tug 1 of war that has been going on in recent years between newspapers on real live paper (my words for the old-fashioned way) and newspapers available on the Internet.
Are old-fashioned newspapers only for us older folks? The majority of college students I know appear to consider reading anything, not only newspapers (online or "live") as a chore. Most seem to only read to pass exams.
For me, the pleasures of reading a newspaper, as with reading a novel or a well-crafted poem, essay, or drama, are intricately 2 connected with the pleasures of the human imagination. People read newspapers for many reasons. Newspapers offer information, and they also cover a variety of topics. But newspapers and reading in general can only add to our lives if we have imaginations sufficiently 3 fertile and copious 4 to appreciate them.
Many tell me the Internet has already taken over the job of old time reading, but I should not worry young people will suffer from underdeveloped imaginations as a result. PowerPoint presentations, video games, text messaging, YouTube, and countless 5 other high-tech 6 advances keep young imaginations very much alive and growing. I hope so.
v.用力拖(或拉)；苦干；n.拖；苦干；拖船
- We need to tug the car round to the front.我们需要把那辆车拉到前面。
- The tug is towing three barges.那只拖船正拖着三只驳船。
adv.杂乱地
- The door is intricately carved. 那扇门被杂乱地刻划。
- Each Viennese porcelain plaque is intricately painted and of very high quality. 每个维也纳瓷画牌匾是错综复杂的质量非常高。
adv.足够地，充分地
- It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
- The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
adj.丰富的，大量的
- She supports her theory with copious evidences.她以大量的例证来充实自己的理论。
- Every star is a copious source of neutrinos.每颗恒星都是丰富的中微子源。
adj.无数的，多得不计其数的
- In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
- I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。