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
aged packet
aliteracies
alternisepalous
anal character
antipollution loan
arcked
as clay in the hands of the potter
at sb's insistence
bilgewater clarifier
biophoton
bioroid
blocking lever
bottle oiler
camouflage works
camp-ground
cash purchases
coefficient of occupation
comes to life
compound insanity
compressor starting resistor
cyclopyrrolone
cylindric cell
dGTPase
dielectrically
disk trencher
dislocation reaction
doleman
elinguid
enatnelled cable
enough to wake the dead
enzyme simulation
face shovel
feird
feuilletines
fielder's choice
form turning
Gatorfoam
geriatric psychology
got well
guaranteed
gum strip
hitting the skids
hold current
inferior carotid ganglia
irene styracicola
karabe
karabel
kshetra
land line teletypewriter
licensee estopple
light-tool
macroscopic cracking
mail reader
maximum admitted weight of work
memory address translation
metatarsus bone
more-modern
Nauru
neoscona melloteei
nigricant
nitric acid poisoning
noncoverage
nuclear-fuelled-boiler
official international reserves
optical-fiber cable
optoelectronic noise rejector
overhead illumination
parallel wire
perfect metals
Peyrat-le-Château
pleurotomariids
polynomial game
post-trauma
predistillation
propagated
public confidence
Qingshankou Formation
Rhododendron hancockii
ring and ball apparatus
rotatable design
rule of three
runtime variable description
sanwu beiji pill
septum gouge
shipbuilder's draft
Southern Triangle
stability-flooded calculation
steam binding
strawberry ice - cream
stripping of the pleura
system journal
tactical
telethons
tin roller
tulbaghia
two port connection valve
uncoined
unsubscribers
vacuum seamer
wahlenbergia hederacea reichb.ivy-leaved harebell
Windian
xcel