新视野研究生英语第7单元课文翻译.doc

7 网络空间：如果你不喜欢它，就离开它 Something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. we hanker after wide-open spaces; we like to explore; we like to make rules but refuse to follow them. But in this age it’s hard to find a place where you can go and be yourself without worrying about the neighbors. 在灵魂深处，美国人喜欢新的疆界。我们渴望广阔的空间；我们喜欢探索；我们新欢制定规则。然而在现在这个时代，政治正确（言行避免有歧视之嫌）和其他束缚正在侵犯我们国民所崇尚的独立精神，你很难可以找到一个可以去放松自己而不担心邻居打扰的地方。 There is such a place: cyberspace.lost in the furor over porn on the net is the exhilarating sense of freedom that this new frontier once promised-and still does in some quarters. Formerly a playground for computer nerds and techies, cyberspace now embraces every conceivable constituency: schoolchildren, flirtatious singles, Hungarian-Americans, accountants. Can they all get along? Or will our fear of kids surfing for dirty pictures behind their bedroom doors provoke a crackdown? 网络空间就是这样一个地方。被淹没在公众对网络色情的激愤之中的事这个新疆界曾经能并且在一些群体中依然能带给人们的一种激动人心的自由感觉。从前，网络空间是计算机爱好者和精通者的天地，而如今各种各样你可以想象的到得人都加入到进来，比如在校学生、打情骂俏的单身汉、匈牙利以美国人、会计师、还有色情爱好者。他们能和睦相处吗？或者说，我们对于孩子们躲在自己卧室里浏览色情网页的担忧会不会引发政府严厉打击网络色情？ The first order of business is to grasp what cyberspace is. It might help to leave behind metaphors of highways and frontiers and to think instead of real estate. Real estate, remember, is an intellectual, legal, artificial environment constructed on top of land. Real estate recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall, between red-light zone and school district, between church , state and drugstore. 首先的任务是要弄明白什么是网络空间。或者，抛开高速公路和疆界这样的比喻，而把它看作是房屋土地财产会对我们理解网络空间有所帮助。记住，房屋土地财产是构建在陆地上的、理性的、合法的、人造的环境。房屋土地财产承认公园用地与购物商场的区别，承认红灯区与学校区的区别，承认教堂、政府、与药店的区别。 In the same way, you could think of cyberspace as a giant and unbounded world of virtual real estate. Some property is privately owned and rented out; other property is common land; some places are suitable for children, and others are best avoided by all citizens. Unfortunately, it’s those places that are now capturing the popular imagi