时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2008年


英语课

For many people who’ve lost a loved one, a visit to their grave 1 can help them to grieve 2. Now German mourners could remember those who have died in a different, modern way with a digital tombstone. Michel Kurney Spelt is a gardener in this cemetery 3 in western Germany, where his aunt is buried.


 


“I was looking for a wood tombstone on the internet, and then came across this digital one. I thought it was a great idea, something modern and new which I am always hoping to. ”


 


It could almost be seen as the graveyard 4 answer to the social networking phenomenon. The battery-operated monitor can display slide shows, or pictures of the deceased person, their relatives or anything which is important to them while alive. Kurney says this digital tombstone is met with approval 5, especially for the cemetery's younger visitors. The idea for a new kind of memorial to a dead comes from the Netherland, and an inventive approach carpenter Carton Glasses is about to producing them. The monitor is protected from the elements by this wooden lid. So far, Glasses has made four of these tombstones to order and is working on two more. The tombstone costs around 5000 Euros, almost 6,500 US Dollars. But Glasses says people are getting used to the idea.


 


“With tombstones, it's not like we are selling coffee machines. They have to be in demand for what we are offering. People won't just buy because they think it is a good product. I have to say the feedback 6 is very positive. ”


 


But there is a limit to how high-tech 7 these tombstones are. They will play music on the deceased person's voice as Glasses is making noise is against German cemetery regulations.


 


John Patries, Reuters.


 



1 grave
n.墓穴,坟墓,雕刻工,抑音;adj.庄重的,严肃的,重大的,低沉的;vt.雕刻
  • Marriage is the grave of love.婚姻是爱情的坟墓。
  • This is a very grave matter indeed.这问题的确非常严重。
2 grieve
vi.(for,over)感到悲痛;vt.(使)伤心
  • Be sure and not grieve.一定不要伤心。
  • What the eye does not see,the heart does not grieve over.眼不见,心不烦。
3 cemetery
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
4 graveyard
n.坟场
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
5 approval
n.赞成,同意;批准,认可
  • The audience has expressed its approval.观众已经认可。
  • The teacher signed his approval.老师做了手势表示同意。
6 feedback
n.回授,反馈,反应
  • I was getting great feedback from my boss.老板对我的评价很高。
  • You need feedback to monitor progress.你需要利用反馈信息来监控进展。
7 high-tech
adj.高科技的
  • The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展,这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
  • The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。
学英语单词
a chemical material formed in an organism
ability by treatment interaction
aliased grating ring
anal fistulectomy
annulus membranae tympani
antitoxic unit
Backus-Naur forms
baldessaris
beyond ... recall
blanket gas analysis
canals
capping enzyme
Cavitas uteri
center of connected group
chenopodium ficifolium smith
civilian technician
cnb
commission-based
constructivists
containerload
cost application
crocheters
defreezing
discontinuous loading
do your bit
downwardly
Dutch Beer
elbow refractor
electrotechnical measurement
encoding scheme identifier
equi-interference standard
eskart
ethyl silicate film
faiello
feareth
firm capacity
first winding
floor relay
functional complete function
G.A.T.T.
gliocyte
guide to
horizontal continuous-acting auger press
image formation
independent wheel
injection method in tunnel construction
injured vessel
isopulegol acetate
ixalpinin
keved
krefting
Larry Loner
lighting apparatus for vehicle
lobi cerebri
locked grooves
manoplania
motor-driven control valve
mullahcracy
multileaving
nadasdy
Navy cargo handling battalion
neutral burning
newsstore
nitrogen tetroxide railway tank transporter
ocean palace
once-dilapidated
Pango Pango
pascrell
patronisers
pattern weaver
phosphonitrile
photoanode
pick axe
potash dichromate
public debt limitation
pudong new district
quaternary ionisation
Rerwick
Sedoheptulokinase
self starting method
series of nonnegative terms
setting-up piece
sex discrimination in employment
silaonite
slow speed governor
sobibor
soda granite
sprue stopper
starting station
stock position
Streptococcus intermedius
subcooling boiling
tabern
thymos
timber wood
tlie
Tsuga
turn up one's heels
Tzucacab
undrunken
X-ray sensor
York and Lancaster