2011广西学士学位英语考试指南第十课.doc

The Fantastic Spurt In Technology 这个奇妙的增值的技术 To most people the term technology conjures up images of smoky steel mills or noisy machines. Perhaps the classic representation of technology is still the assembly line created by Henry Ford half a century ago and made into a social symbol by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. This symbol, however, has always been inadequate and misleading, for technology has always been more than factories and machines. The invention of the horse collar in the middle ages led to major changes in agricultural methods and was as much a technological advance as the invention of the Bessemer furnace centuries later. Moreover, technology includes techniques, or ways to do things, as well as the machines that may or may not be necessary to apply them. It includes ways to make chemical reactions occur, ways to breed fish, plant forests, light theaters, count votes or teach history. 对于大多数人来说,这个术语的烟熏技术想象出来的图像钢厂或吵闹的机器。最经典的代表仍然是装配线技术由亨利·福特半个世纪前,做成一种社会的象征,查理·卓别林在现代。这个符号,然而,历来是不充分的,让人误解,因为科技一贯超过工厂和机器。马项圈的发明在中世纪,导致发生重大变化的方法,是农业科技进步作为一样的发明几个世纪后的贝炉。此外,技术还包括技艺,或者说做事的方法,以及机器,它可以是也可以不是必须应用它们。它包括方法使化学反应的发生方式、养鱼、植物的森林,光剧院,数票或教历史课。 The old symbols of technology are even more misleading today, when the most advanced technological processes are carried out far from assembly lines or blast furnaces. Indeed, in electronics, in space technology, in most of the new industries, quiet and clean surroundings are characteristic --- even sometimes essential. And the assembly line --- the organization of large numbers of men to carry out simple repetitive functions --- is outdated. It is time for our symbols of technology to change --- to catch up with the quickening changes in technology itself. 旧的符号的技术更误导的今天,当最先进的工艺流程进行了远离装配生产线或高炉。的确,在电子技术中,在航天技术,在大部分的新兴产业,安静和干净的环境特征- - - - - -有时甚至是必要的。和流水线上- - - - - -的组织中,大量的人进行简单重复的功能- - - - - -已经过时。是时候让我们的符号的技术,以改变- - - - - -要赶上加快技术变化的本身。 This acceleration is frequently dramatized by a brief account of the progress in transportation.