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
Abbe's string method
acropetal succession
ageing gene
Amidosan
ampul cutting machine
arctose
auto accessory
Batayurt
Birmitrapur
calepitrimerus proprius
Caleta Pabellón de Pica
can you beat it
card back
carpet burn
chloromix tower
Cibacthen
class up
corn-hoarder
couple unbalance value
critical reference surface
curb marking
custom of port
dashed-off
data base key
delta-sigma modulation
disgorged
distribution piller (link box above ground)
Dividose
drape unconformity
edwardian-era
egg white protein
faplas
field pick up
first generation neutron
fMettRNA
four way box
freight flow
garden trowels
Gilbert River
hammer test machine
HLAg
horizontal band-saw
hydroaerodrome
hydroformate
immortality
impen
inactive tuberculosis
incarceration symptom
infrastructural
interferer
intermission
international union of geodesy and geophysics (iugg)
Kambang
lender of last resort system
lepiota cristata
likewise
line of apsides
linguocervical
Mexican bean
migeat
milking interval
Mkunumbi
naphthylamine hydrochloride
newfie
nondiscursive
Norolon
not always afloat but safely aground
Nyalam
obsessional
Oksko-Donskaya Ravnina
omegatrons
oxalation
Paulownia catalpifolia
Pedicularis artselaeri
pietersburg (polokwane)
polysorbate 80
Populus iliensis
postexilic
punch a ticket
pyrognostics
Rahman Kalay
relatively prime polynomials
rest satisfied with
seed-times
shorebank
smartwatches
stibiocolusite
strong acidic glutaraldehyde
supreme state conference
tailpipe chamber
three stator winding synchro
threomycin
tweeter
umra
universal tool maker's microscope
up to date type
urinod
ustilagotoxine
vomitlike
wepp
work cure
yolk sac tumor