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
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7-nitroindazole
acicular tempered martensite
adjustment of circulation
advance in technology
aerosol concentration
agate spatula
age-darkened
alternating magnetization
angle dozer
appying
back pressure evaporator
Bekovicha, Bukhta
beslime
besocked
Boardman
bridge stacker
caecostomy
Cerorthite
churia ghati (siwalik ra.)
CliffsNotes
color center laser
computerized seat reservation service
cony-burrow
cormous
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Dazkiri
dextriferron
dictateth
digital gradient
dosimetrists
dry cargo time charter freight rate
durous
fast radiochemical separation
fervent
fritillariae bulbus
fully parallel associative processor
fungal meningitis
galactoxyloglucan
Ganle
genus Pyrethrum
governances
halophility
hillsales
hypamnion
ignition interlock
infinity bug
internal sort phase
intraspecific cooperation
isabnormal
La Pampa
leachfield
Littlehampton
manyogana
meson telescope
method of force
mica glass-ceramic
micaceous shale
micro-opaque
missend
moroseness
moscow' saint paul
multipurpose cargo ship
mythemes
nil link
nonaneurysmal
operation characteristic
pest control
pitch slip
pressure unloading
property owner
Quicama
radar axis
receiver protective device (reprod)
retort(ed) food
reuse pattern
Rybnovsk
saturatedness
self-welding of structural materials in liquid sodium
semilunar hiatus
shafting-grounding device
solid-state imaging and biomedical applications
spherical concave and convex mirrors
suck tits
swinging base
take my word
template moulding
Tertry
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thyrsoidea macrurus
toll pass ticket
True gold does not fear fire
tunnel invert
two-hander
umw (ultra micro waves)
unilateral report
usable flow
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viewer's role
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zandler