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。
学英语单词
artificial dielectric
autonomous potentials
balenciagas
balmaseda
Belenus
bird-dogs
blackfellers
Bodenwerder
botraille
burnable absorber
C. E. D.
cabinlift
Calcimar
cannabidiolic acid
cast ewe
centineo
cinnamyl cinnamate
Cirat
clausocalanus furcatus
compound extract
Congo franc
containment annulus
continuous muller
cordesman
corrector loop
cristine
critical volumn
crossword puzzle
crowstons
cruisegoer
cylindrical grinder with wide grinding wheel
dc cable
dealigning
Dhofar
diploma of graduation
Doctyl
drosses
eleemosynar
embedment depth
end burner
end-of-excerpt
Esenguly
extra-hard cold work
feigl
field discharge protection
folliculosebaceous cystic hamartoma
foredoomed
Frankfort on the Main
globosities
gluceth
go to great ends
goldleaf electrometer
ground power
hardening modulus
Hoya multiflora
hypochordal arch
I-FI
immediate execution mode
in bonded system
interphase exchange coefficient
introitus vaginarum
Iranianise
kangaroo system
learning counseling
Li Shizhen
lithophyl
malonyl urea
methylacryloyl-
nonallegorical
partial double hull boat
pearlite (perlite)
peppernel
preparative layer chromatography
quartz exhalite
ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
rector
regional degeneration
removal of impurities from station circuit
rod cluster control changing fixture
runaway chain reaction
scare-fly
scrimpings
sculptural relief
self respect
sergeancies
sharklet
sinusoidal projection
sporas
spring for rocker shaft
start-stop pattern
susanas
switching signal
taking me out
threshing time
Titov Seamount
Toundourou
tunnelway
unselfconsciously
versus analysis
visualisers
waterperries
wide angled lens