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雅思课外阅读--社交媒体改变我们

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 The Internet isn’t rigged to give us right or left, conservative or liberal — at least not until we rig it that way. It’s designed to give us more of the same, whatever that same is: one sustained note from the vast and varied music that it holds, one redundant fragrance from a garden of infinite possibility.

互联网本身并未受到操纵来向我们投喂右翼或左翼观念、保守派或自由派思想,或者起码要等到我们自己操纵它这样做之后。它的设计目标就是给我们送来更多类似的东西,不管这东西究竟是什么:浩如烟海的乐章中的一个持续音,百花齐放的花园里的一种单调香味。

【经典句式】

rigged受到操纵的

conservative保守的

liberal自由的

design设计

sustain持续

vast广阔的

redundant多余的

fragrance香味

infinite无限的

A few years back I bought some scented shower gel from Jo Malone. I made the purchase throughthe company’s website. For months afterward, as I toggled through cyberspace,Jo Malone stalked me,always on my digital heels,forever in a corner of my screen, a Jo Malone candle here, a Jo Malone cologne over there. I’dbeen profiled and pigeonholed: fan of JoMalone. Sure, I could choose from woody, citrus, floral and even fruity, but there was no Aramis in my aromatic ecosphere, and I was steered clear of Old Spice.

几年前,我买了祖·玛珑(Jo Malone)品牌的某种芳香沐浴啫喱。我是从这家公司的网站上购买的。接下来的好几个月里,只要我在网络世界里游荡,祖·玛珑就会追踪,总是跟在我的数字身影后面,永远占据了屏幕的一角,这里冒出个祖·玛珑蜡烛,那里蹦出个祖·玛珑古龙水。我被定了性、圈进了一个小门类:祖·玛珑粉丝。当然了,我可以从祖·玛珑的本木香、柑橘香、花香乃至果香中进行选择,但我的香味生态圈里没有了雅男士(Aramis)品牌,Old Spice的产品也统统离我远去了。

【经典句式】

infinite香味

JoMalone祖·玛珑(香水品牌)

make purchase购买

toggle through切换(页面)

cyberspace网络世界

stalk跟踪

heels高跟鞋

cologne古龙水

profile侧写

pigeonhole分类

aromatic香味的

steer导向

clear of … 没有……

So it goes with the fiction we read, the movies we watch, the music we listen to and, scarily, the ideas we subscribe to. They’re not challenged. They’revalidated and reinforced.By bookmarking given blogs and personalizing social-media feeds, we customize the news we consume and the political beliefs we’re exposed to asnever before. And this colors our days, or rather bleeds them of color, reducing them to a single hue.

我们读的小说、看的电影、听的音乐也不例外,可怕的是,接触的思想亦如此。它们不会受到挑战,而是会不断自我证实和加强。通过给特定的博客加书签、将社交媒体讯息个性化,我们订制了自身消费的新闻和能够接触到的政治信仰,程度之深超过以前任何时候。这种行为决定了我们生活的色彩,或者更确切地说,是将生活中的色彩抽去,让它变得单调。

【经典句式】

go with … 跟……一致

fiction小说;虚构

subscribe to 订阅

validate证实

reinforce加强

bookmark书签;给……加书签

given特定的

personalize个性化

social-media feeds社交媒体讯息

customize订制

consume消费

expose… to … 把……暴露于……

as never before 前所未有

bleed… of …把……抽离……

reduce… to … 把……降低到……的程度

hue色调

【大作文万用句式】

So it go with … ……就是这样

【犀利观点】个性化信息定制的弊端:全段

We construct precisely contoured echo chambers of affirmation that turn conviction into zeal, passion into fury, disagreements with the other side into the demonization of it. Then we marvel at the Twitter mobs that swarm in defense of Sanders or the surreal success of Donald Trump’s candidacy, whose historical tagline may well be “All I know is what’s on the Internet.”

我们构建了一道精心打造的正反馈回音壁,将确信变为狂热,将热情变为狂躁,将与他人的分歧变为妖魔化对方。于是我们惊讶地看到,有一群Twitter暴徒一窝蜂地为桑德斯辩护,或是唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)竞选的超现实成功,而其一直以来的口号完全可以总结为,“我所知道的都来自互联网。”

【经典句式】

construct构建

contour轮廓

chamber房间

affirmation肯定

conviction坚信

zeal狂热

passion热情

fury狂躁

marvel at 对……惊奇

mob暴徒

swarm一窝蜂

in defense of 为了维护……

surreal超现实的

candidacy候选资格

【犀利观点】个性化信息定制的弊端:全段