时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:和老外聊天地道口语


英语课

R: not a single email until now? it's already twelve o'clock. I can't believe it!

A: can't bear it, right? I've been there before. I'll feel comfortable if no one calls me or sends me text messages, like there is something missing.

R: yeah, that's right. If no one sends me tect messages, I'll go crazy.

A: actually, this is a kind of addiction 1 called "information" or "information overload 2".

R: addiction? checking emails and text messages often can be called an addiction? no way!

A: yes, it is. Do you consider a frequent check of your income emails to be an integral part of your working day?

R: aboslutely.

A: do you have your cell phone with you wherever you go and check text messages and phone calls from time to time?

R: yeah, it's a must. Otherwise,I may miss important phone calls and text messages.

A: do you open all your IM tools whenever you're using a computer?

R: yes. MSN, QQ, Skype, Google Talk, Ali wangwang, everything, so that I'll be in touch with all friends and relatives.

A: now I can tell you're definitely addicted 3 to the overflow 4 of information.

还没有人给我发邮件?已经过了12点了,真是难以置信!

受不了了,是吧?我也遇到过这种情况.如果没有人给我打电话,发短信,我会觉得不舒服,跟少了点什么的.

对.如果没人给我发短信,我肯定受不了.

实际上,这是一种上瘾的症状,叫做"咨询癖",或者是"资讯超载".

上瘾?经常查看邮件和短信也叫上瘾?不可能吧?

没错,就是上瘾.你觉得,频繁查询邮箱的邮件是工作中必不可少的一部分吗?

没错.

你是不是哪都带这手机,不停地看有没有短信和电话?

是啊,这是必须的,要不然我该错过重要电话和短信了.

你是不是只要电脑开机,就打开所有的即时通讯工具?

是啊,MSN,QQ,Skype,Google Talk,还有阿里旺旺,都打开,这样我就能和家人保持联系了.

现在,我能判断出来你确实是对泛滥的信息上瘾了.

integral:being an essential part of something 必需的;不可或缺的 ~ (to sth)

Music is an integral part of the school's curriculum.

音乐是这所学校的课程中基本的一环.

Practical experience is integral to the course.

这门课程不可缺少实践经验.


overflow:the action of liquid flowing out of a container that is already full; the liquid that flows out 溢出;漫出;溢出的液体

Stop the overflow from the cistern 5.

止住水箱溢水.

an overflow of water from the lake

漫出的湖水

an overflow of powerful emotions

横流的激情

 



1 addiction
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
2 overload
vt.使超载;n.超载
  • Don't overload the boat or it will sink.别超载,否则船会沉。
  • Large meals overload the digestive system.吃得太饱会加重消化系统的负担。
3 addicted
adj.沉溺于....的,对...上瘾的
  • He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
  • She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
4 overflow
v.(使)外溢,(使)溢出;溢出,流出,漫出
  • The overflow from the bath ran on to the floor.浴缸里的水溢到了地板上。
  • After a long period of rain,the river may overflow its banks.长时间的下雨天后,河水可能溢出岸来。
5 cistern
n.贮水池
  • The cistern is empty but soon fills again.蓄水池里现在没水,但不久就会储满水的。
  • The lavatory cistern overflowed.厕所水箱的水溢出来了
学英语单词
abbreviated version
activity of process
Agion Oros
amount forecast
amount-of-substance concentration
applied factory overhead expense
arabler
atomizing disk
attritioning
auliscus incertus
automatic zero-set circuit
balaenoptera musculuss
ballena
Ban Cang
be present at
belin
betsko
brick with grooves
bumping collision
burnhams
cached
Calices renales
Cantu, R.
Caroni R.
cellulose-nylon blend
chemical composition of meteoroid
cholester n
clockpunk
condensation agent
convey belt
Cornu quartz prism
Delindeite
dicked
do sb's bidding
dust-box
dyscoimesis
electronical time relay
elie metchnikoffs
export agent
fannia leucosticta
follow-up grouting
fuel siphoning
Gewalan
grisemer bound
halichoeres ornatissimus
heavy weight hide
heavy-tailed distribution
hereditary ovalocytosis
hidden text
Isopropylscopolamine
Jones-Cantarow tests
lar lubovitch dance company
lateral convergence shift
left internal carotid vein
Lerbach
longstemmed
maui islands
mcphearson
mean
membrum inferius
microlaryngoscope
middle gimbal angle
middle white
midmovement
misarrangement
mixing pan mill
monthly mean of daily maximum temperature
mortar strength
nandid
Nizarid
Nodi lymphatici iliaci communes mediales
OBF
orgia
oversale
parallel pore filter
pellicularia filamentosa (patonillard) rogow
photochirogenesis
phytophenology
post-metallogenic
printed subject indexes
publicly held
puinde
quarry plant
ragione
releasing of brake
restriction of credit
round head bench mark
santuary
sbses-s
sharp-shooting
Sidney Caesar
spirit of nitrous ether
standard uncertainty
talamasca
Talofofo
tentorium cerebelli
throat of racket
unpersisted
usr (user-to-user information message)
verbalized
vv. subcutane? abdominis
X-ray transducer