圖書(shū)館會(huì)被取代掉嗎「英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力材料」
現(xiàn)代社會(huì)，電子產(chǎn)品遍及每個(gè)角落。就連書(shū)籍也被電子攻占。但是電子書(shū)真的能取代紙質(zhì)書(shū)，手機(jī)電腦等真的能取代圖書(shū)館嗎?下面，我們一起走進(jìn)這篇英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力材料。
Amazon.com recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megastore had overtaken sales of hardcover books came as no surprise. It had to happen sometime. But the news did conjure quite an interesting mental image: libraries that from now on will look smaller and less crowded. The habits of readers may not change. But their enviroments will. Theoretically, your space will be more spare, more serenely uncluttered. That's the theory, at least. My experience is that stuff expands to fill the space available. But you can dream.
亞馬遜網(wǎng)站最近宣布，這個(gè)超大網(wǎng)上書(shū)城的電子書(shū)銷(xiāo)量已經(jīng)超過(guò)精裝書(shū)，這不奇怪。這種情況早晚都會(huì)發(fā)生。但是，這條消息確實(shí)讓人們的腦海里出現(xiàn)一副有趣的畫(huà)面：從現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始，圖書(shū)館會(huì)顯得更小一些，也不那么擁擠了。讀者的習(xí)慣也許不會(huì)改變，但他們的環(huán)境會(huì)改變。從理論上說(shuō)，你的空間會(huì)更大，更整齊清爽。至少理論上如此。按照我的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，東西會(huì)自動(dòng)增加，去填取可用的空間，但你可以盡情想象。
With books, the absence of packaging does nothing to contents. I can buy a hardover copy of Moby Dick or download it into an e-reader, and Melville is still Melville. But I grew up loving Rockwell Kent's illustrations of that novel, and later Barry Moser's. It's hard to think of the book without them. I can do that, certainly, but some little is lost.
就書(shū)而言，沒(méi)有包裝對(duì)內(nèi)容毫無(wú)影響。我可以買(mǎi)一本精裝的《大白鯊》或把內(nèi)容下載到電子書(shū)上，梅爾維爾還是梅爾維爾。但是，我從小到大都喜歡羅克韋爾·肯特的這部小說(shuō)配的插圖。難以想象這本書(shū)少了那些插圖。當(dāng)然，我能接受，但是還是少了些什么。
I come from a generation for whom the books and records on the shelf signaled, in some way, who you were. If you visited a friend, you took the first chance you had to surrepititiously scan that friend's Kindle, but is that the same? And try that kind of snooping on a bus or in a coffee shop and you'll probably get arrested.
對(duì)我們這代人來(lái)說(shuō)，架上的書(shū)和唱片在某種程度上標(biāo)志著你是什么樣的人。如果去拜訪某一位朋友，你會(huì)抓住第一時(shí)機(jī)偷偷掃一眼朋友的書(shū)架，了解一下這個(gè)人。我猜，我也可以窺視朋友的“金讀”電子書(shū)，但是這一樣嗎?要是在公共汽車(chē)或咖啡店這樣探頭探腦，你大概會(huì)被抓。
The stuff of our lives is a comfort. We look up at the shelves and we see old friends.(Yes, there aare books on my shelves that aren't my friends, that I haven't finished or even started, but someday I will, I promise-my home library is a physical manifestation of ambivalence.) There is a comfort in the continuity of seeing the same books year after year. I guess there might be some of the same pleasure in scrolling through a digital librar or music playlist, but somehow I think something will be lost.
生活中的物件對(duì)我們是一種安慰。抬頭看一眼書(shū)架，我們看到的是老朋友。(不錯(cuò)，書(shū)架上有些書(shū)不是我的朋友，我沒(méi)有讀完甚至壓根就沒(méi)讀過(guò)，但有朝一日我會(huì)讀——我的家庭圖書(shū)館是矛盾心理的有形體現(xiàn)。)年復(fù)一年看到同樣的書(shū)給人以安慰。我猜，滾動(dòng)數(shù)字圖書(shū)館或音樂(lè)播放表或許也會(huì)產(chǎn)生類(lèi)似的快樂(lè)，但不知怎么的，我還是覺(jué)得少點(diǎn)兒什么。
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