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新视角研究生英语读说写1课文翻译以及课后习题答案 Remote Control 1、Recently the Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.最近《华盛顿邮报》刊登了一篇文章，解释家用电器制造商是如何谋划把消费者逼疯的。 2、Of course they don’t say they want to drive us insane. What they say they want to do is have us live in homes where “all appliances are on the Internet, sharing information”and appliances will be “smarter than most of their owners.” For example, the article states, you could have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from the office”and the refrigerator “knows when it’s out of milk” and the bathroom scale “transmits your weight to the gym.”当然制造商们并没有说他们想把我们逼疯，他们说他们想做的是让我们生活在“所有电器通过互联网实现信息共享”的住宅里。而这些电器比“大多数主人聪明得多”。例如，文章说到你可以拥有这样一个家：洗碗机“可以从你办公室启动”、电冰箱“知道何时牛奶喝完了”、浴室磅秤可以“把你的体重传送到健身房”。 3、I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack. I mean, did they ever stop to ask themselves why a consumer, after loading a dishwasher, would go to the office to start it? Would there be some kind of career benefit?恕我直言，我满怀敬意地想知道电器制造商们是不是晕了头。我的意思是他们是否该停下来问问自己：为什么消费者把碗碟放进洗碗机后，要跑到办公室去启动它？难道这样可以在职场上获益吗？ 4、YOUR BOSS: What are you doing? 老板：你在干什么？ YOU ( tapping computer keyboard ): I’m starting my dishwasher! 你（敲打键盘）：我正在启动我家的洗碗机！ YOUR BOSS: That’s the kind of productivity we need around here! 老板：这恰恰是我们这儿需要的工作效率。 YOU: Now I’m flushing the upstairs toilet! 你：我现在就冲洗楼上厕所！ Listen, appliance manufacturers: We don’t need a dishwaher that we can communicate with from afar. If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave dirty on the kitchen counter, and shouts at them: “Put those dishes in the dishwasher rignt now or I’ll leak all over your shoes!”电器制造商们听好：我们不需要从远处来启动洗碗机。如果你想改进洗碗机，那就给我们这样一台：当人们把脏碗放在碗柜上时，洗碗机能够感应并且大声冲人喊：“立刻把碗放进来，不然我就会漏水把你鞋子弄湿！” 5、Likewise, we don’t need a refrigerator that knows when it’s out of milk. We alrealy have a foolproof system for determ