5单元基础英语大三外语系paraphrase.ppt

Where excellence is not an act but a habit. 在这里卓越不是一时的行为，而是一种习惯。 Where high quality is not just something someone does on certain occasions, but rather something that one does regularly and that one finds it difficult to stop doing. … these days you can point and click anywhere on the planet, unencumbered by time or space or long distance phone tariffs. 现在你可以指点地球上的任何地方，不受时空、长距离电话费的限制。 Nowadays by using a computer equipped with a modem and pointing and clicking with a mouse, you can get information from any place in this world, and neither time, nor space, nor high long distance phone tariffs will make it difficult for you to do so. Who knew then that from this modest hack would flow the civilization altering, millionaire spawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide Web? 谁知道以后改变文明、创造无数百万富翁、被人们称为信息大洞的万维网就源自这位谦虚勤奋的人呢？ Who knew at that time that this humble software consultant would create the World Wide Web which would change our civilization, bring about millionaires, and become a rich source of information? It started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. 他的发明在任何地方都能进行，但这一切偏偏始于瑞士阿尔卑斯山。 Surprisingly enough, the invention of the Web did not take place in an industrial city or town but in the Swiss Alps, which seemed to be remote from industry. … that could… keep “track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains are supposed to be so good at remembering but sometimes mine wouldn’t.” 可以“追踪真实生活中所有随意的联想，这种联想大脑理应善于记忆的，但有时我却记不住。” …that could keep myself informed about all the chance connections that one may meet with in real life, and which one’s brains ought to be good enough to remember, but sometimes I would just not remember. “One had to be able to jump…from software documentation to a list of people to a phone book to an organizational chart to whatever.” 他后来写道，“从软件的文件编制跳到一群人的名单，到电话簿，到一个组织的构成图，到任何东西。 On the Internet one should be able to begin from one’ s own software file and move on to get a list of nam