Unit+6—Language+Points.ppt

Old Father Time Becomes a Terror ;Para 2： But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium [mileni?m] . And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.;1.??If something?eats into?your time or your resources, it uses them, when they should be used for other things.??消耗，耗费（时间或资源） 家庭和工作的双重负担耗费了他的时间。 Responsibilities at home and work?eat into?his time. Wages were rising faster than productivity and this was eating into profits. 工资的涨幅高过了生产率增长的速度，从而消耗了利润所得。 2.? ?If a