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A Virtual Life 虚拟世界的生活;;;;;what do you think of the virtual life? Advantages more or the disadvantages?;What is the authors view?;迈亚?塞拉维茨曾是电视制片人，目前从事写作。是一位专门从事科学与健康报道的获奖新闻记者。现居纽约市。 代表作：《登天之梯：一个儿童心理咨询师的诊疗笔记》;A Virtual Life 1.After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriends Liverpool accent suddenly becomes impossible to interpret after his easily understood words on screen; a secretarys clipped tone seems more rejecting than Id imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid -- hours become minutes, or seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days. ; ; ; What does the sentence imply?;2. For the last three years, since I stopped working as a television producer, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via email and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of our relationship is also computer-assisted. ;Article2_W_Popwin_submit.1;via 介词;3. If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the endless snowstorm of 96 on TV. ;4.But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though Ive become one with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another link in the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to feel an aversion to outside forms of socializing. We have become the Net critics worst nightmare. ; take in:;Article3_W_Popwin_take in.2;Article3_W_Popwin_spit;5.What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become a form of escape, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be