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Unit 1 1. But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. 我们必须学会同样擅长应付短暂而干脆和漫长艰难的局面。 It is generally said that the British are better at the last. 人们普遍认为英国人最终会胜出的。 Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. 其他国家认为英国输得一无所有。 We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed. 一年前我们孤军作战，许多国家都以为我们被彻底打败了。Given the relatively few restriction governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international water. 由于登陆和使用互联网的限制相对较少，它的作用就等同通讯传播中的国际海域。 At first this might sound like an apparent contradiction: how can something , this is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas, alienate the participants. 乍听起来这似乎相互矛盾：一种东西怎么会既让人自由地交流思想，从而使全球融为一体，同时又让人们彼此疏远呢？ 3. I have not known this fellow to be given to exaggeration, therefore when he described his Internet binges, when he would spend over twenty-four hours on line non-stop, it gave me pause to think. 据我所知，此人不喜欢夸大其词，因此当他描述自己的网瘾，说常常连续泡网一天一夜时，这引起了我的思考。 But at the expense of the time that would have otherwise been available for involvement in other activities which might foster a sense of community in their village, towns and cities. 但代价是消耗了原本可以用来参加一些培养他们村庄及城镇地区意识的活动时间。That absence, even more than wreckage, contains the heart of the matter. The true measure of the event lies not in what remains but in all that has disappeared. 从眼前消失的情景，比起那残留的废墟，更能体现问题的实质。真正能够衡量这个事情的并不所留下的一切，而是所有些消失的东西。 Nagasaki has always been in the shadow of Hiroshima, as if the human imagination had stumbled to exhaustion in the wreckage of the first ruined city without reaching even the outskirt of the second. 长崎一直以来都被掩盖在广岛的影子下， 好像人们的想象力在第一个被毁灭的城市就消耗殆尽了，连第二个城市的边缘都没有触及。 Each picture therefore seemed not so much an image of something that happened a half-century ago as a window cut into the wall of the photography center showing what soon could easily happen to New York. 因此，每一张照片并不是