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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AC signal
Acer gracilifolium
acetamidase
al batra (petra)
anchor relay
arney
audio diary
beering
bespotted
billy buttons
Blyth's test
boundly
brime
carayne
carbamidomethylates
carbon-free
categories of groups
choroidopathy
chromium nickel electrode
cocontractions
collagenoblast
Computed Dental Radiography
Cottle County
counsellings
country forest
Cousin, Victor
cues-filtered-out perspective
decretal
definition of process
dinitrodiazophenol
edoylerite
embracing
extracoital
factualized
feedback value
float-ways
Fornix gastricus
frontal wall
garot
give sb a leg-up
gromel
hard wired system
hell bomb
hink
intense-personal
interphone
Kremasti
laryngeal paralysis
laugh your head off
law of conservation of moment of momentum
loading pressure
Longhurst-Hardy plankton recorder
loosen the purse strings
magnet balance
magnetic vibrator
Mahmoodābād
manipulation of sparse array
marionettish
meet and greet
microcomputer-based process controller
mulberry leaf
naphthol reds
odd ducks
Old Saxon
oligosemic
open end container
pilea grandis
pimobendan
piperonal bis acetal
Platon.
poster colour
presby-
product properties
propulsion system component
radiotransparency
re-encounters
rebreathed
retained profits
reversible permeability
rewardest
s hole
sales maximization principle
Sedipam
Simcoe, L.
single-piston explosive press
siroccozone system
smart gun
St. Matthews
stabilizing method
sub component
synoekosis
tafapon
take a firm grip upon oneself
take a long tramp to
Testodrin
tin-base white-metal linings
toroidal current
uduth
unvivid
Veraciclina
video board
vitaro