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A Virtual Life At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to talk away in the background, something that Id never done previously. 有时我把电视机开着，让它作为背景声音一直响着，以前我从不这样做。 The voices of the programs are comforting, but then Im jarred by the commercials. 电视节目中的说话声让人感到宽慰，可那些广告又叫我心烦。 I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. 我发现自己沉浸在肥皂剧里，或者不停地收看最新的新闻报道和天气预报。 Dateline, Frontline, Nightline, CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. 一而再再而三地从“每日新闻”、“一线新闻”、 “夜间新闻”、 有线新闻电视网、纽约一套上收看有关每一条新闻的各种不同视角的报道，尽管它们对我毫无用处。 Work moves into the background. I decide to check my email. 工作成了次要的。我决定去看一下自己的电子信箱。 On line, I find myself attacking everyone in sight. I am bad-tempered, and easily angered. 在网上，我发现自己见谁攻谁。我脾气暴躁，动辄生气。 I find everyone on my mailing list insensitive, believing that theyve forgotten that there are people actually reading their wounding remarks. 我觉得我与之通信的每一个人都麻木不仁，认为他们已经忘却还有人真会去读他们那些刻薄伤人的言辞。 I dont realize that Im projecting until after Ive been embarrassed by someone who politely points out that Ive attacked her for agreeing with me. 直到有人礼貌地指出，她同意我的观点却遭到我的抨击时，我才意识到，自己是在以己度人，不由得深感尴尬。 turn on 词义：打开；接通 造句：I will turn on the television. 我来打开这台电视。 拓展：turn off 关掉，截断 turn up 调大（音量） turn down 调小（音量）；拒绝 turn around 好转；起色；转机 turn out 出席；在场 previously adv. 词义：先前地；以往地 previous adj. 造句：The building had previously been used as a hotel. 这座楼房早先曾用作旅馆。 jar 词义：n.罐子，广口瓶； v.（使）撞击 造句：The spade jarred on something metal. 铁锹撞在什么金属物件上发出刺耳的声音。 commercial 词义：n.（电台或电视播放的）广告； adj.贸易的，商业的 造句：I don’t like commercial . 我不太喜欢广告。 suck 词义：v. 吸，吮 n. 吸，吮，咂 词组:be sucked in (身不由己地）卷入 造句：She was sucking up milk though a straw.