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
a2-Globulin
AC balancer
acropora yongei
Adie-Holmes syndrome
adore for
Akwaya
American shares
any time now
as sabkhah
autokinesis
baccharis halimifolias
Barnett
barqa ad dumran khasm
blue-ball
Brazilian butts
card cutting
CCL17
claman
coccosphere
conventional propellant loading system
cordialised
Crvstoserpin
crystallographic lattice constant
CSI (command string interpreter)
Dachepalle
dc discharge
defunctnesses
Desmotiontae
doorsteppers
driving box wedge
dummy bar
economic difficulty
ekistics
electronic
electrostatic getter ion pump
evaporating heater
evoked response audiometer
fingerpointing
forced frugality
fumble
Galen's foramina
giving up the ghost
go on the air
grassies
gushingly
Halorrhagidaceae
homothermy
imbrues
instantiate live controls
jayhawking
juvenile period
lap seam welding
leased fee interest
lengthened pulse
ligature reel
Lissington
list of a stylus
lose patience
machine molding
mazang
mean specific gravity
measurable
Mercier Lacombe
minusculum
mouth-and-hand synkinesia
n-bromosuccinimide(catalyst)
novas
numerical model
on their beam ends
orifice(plate)
pennylands
percental
petuntze
phyllopyrrole
poroporoes
product testimonial
rail shearing device
reformling
relative turgidity
renal-splenic venous shunt
Schongastia pseudoschuffmeri
shallow water splash
Shimofusa
single-cutting hand saw
sinus aort?
Slavonian grebe
Somali peninsula
spatial point processes
sranatum
steam shop
test head
that's wassup
thousand metric tons
tie-ins
titubating
toilet powder
tricyclic anti-depressants
vying
water resources optimal operation
weinburg
wrathy
xira