时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:时尚英语话题


英语课

    61 What’s the Rush?

Sometimes I think we need to get off this wild ride----the ride we call life-----as we know it. As the song goes, “slow down, you’re moving too fast, you got to make the good times last.” Why have we become addicted 1 to fast, and still it’s not good enough? Computers and gadgets 2 need to be faster and faster. Fast food can’t get fast enough. I recently went to a wedding, and it was over so quickly. We don’t want to wait for other cars; we want the ultimate fast lane, with the ultimate speed. Heck, if we could afford it. I’m sure we would take rockets instead of planes.

But even that’s not fast enough. Until the science fictions dream of moving one place to another in a blink 3 of an eye becomes reality, we’ll be unhappy. Perhaps speed is not the answer to happiness all the time. Once in a while, slowing down is the answer. At least enjoy the ride we call life. It’s not just about getting to the end----the end will come, but enjoying the trip. That’s what I need to do more of. What about you? Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!

Talk about it. Are you impatient? How often do you eat fast food? Are you happy with the speed of your computer or your internet connection? Do you wish could slow your life down a little? What do you think people who are always in a hurry? Do you take time out during the day and try to slow things down? What can people do to slowing their life down and not be in such a hurry? Do you know what the expression “take time to smell the roses” means? Dose this expression apply to your life? Are you happy with the current pace of your life?



1 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。
2 gadgets
n.小机械,小器具( gadget的名词复数 )
  • Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置,做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
3 blink
vi.眨眼睛,闪烁;vt.眨(眼睛),使闪烁
  • In a blink of an eye he had disappeared.一眨眼的工夫他就没影了。
  • The boy disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye.一眨眼,这男孩就在拐角处不见了。
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abdominal musculature
active circuits
acylable
allouzarigenin
aminoazo compound
arts-and-craft
automatic roasting furnace
ball tap
balm mint extract
boiler heating surface
Botesdale
bridge feedback
British double summer time
catalogue raisonne
catches at
Chateaubernard
circlelike
common control signals
computer interconnects
console control
continuous operation
controller definition table address
conventional depreciation
corneal corpuscles
cromwellian
cross-functionalism
cry (out) against
cut corners
descends to
destination category
differentially coherent transmission system
drain bar
dramatizing
duells
extractor fork
female reducer
film lightning arrester
firmware control memory
five-in-one
fore-and-aft vibration
gem-likest
gravel bed filter
hATRE
hexamethyldisiloxane
high-purity powder
humidity element
Hérépian
illutation
inverse gsm mapping
jacket type water-cooled cupola
janszoon
Jeffersontown
leaf stoma
lipoplast
loduca
message transmitting procedure
miles gloriosus
Moorreesburg
moreefficient
mottling of teeth
multi-dimension online analytical processing
news ticker
nuclear material transfer report
ocean broker
ordainment
outer hamstring
peripheral control transfer
phlebovirus
planning out
pneumatization
reduced requced
reference
remote-control manipulator
residual chlorine corrosion
rhonchi
rhumb line bearing
root cell
rooting mixture
Ruatahuna
rudkan (rod khan)
scissura pilorum
shashidan
sheepdog trials
Stage of Yanshan
storage integrator
straight barter sale
supernerdy
syllabizes
synergistic mixture
szymczyk
tea gardens
thromasthenia
Tibamax
tonebursts
trithianes
tzuyzkh (armenia)
unconfused
uniconic
woodose
worldlike
Zumpango