当代设计研究生英语读写教程上Unit1课文+翻译.doc

. WORD格式.资料 . 专业.整理 Unit 1：cyberspace ：if you dont love it ,leave it 信息空间：出入随愿 1 something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. 美国人的内心深处具有一种酷爱探索新领域的气质。 We hanker after wide-open spaces ;we like to explore ;we like to make rules but refuse to follow them . 我们渴求宽敞的场地，我们喜欢探索，喜欢制定规章制度，却不愿去遵守。 But in this age its hard to find a place where you can go and be yourself without worrying about he neighbours . 在当今时代，却很难找到一块空间，可以供你任意驰骋，又不必担心影响 你的邻居。 2 There is such a place : cyberspace . 确实有这样一个空间，那就是信息空间。 Formerly a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace . Formely a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace now embraces every conceivable constituency : school children , flirtatious ,singles ,Hungarian-Americans, accountants . 这里原本是计算机迷的游戏天地，但如今只要想像得到的各类人群应 有尽有，包括少年儿童、轻佻的单身汉、美籍匈牙利人、会计等。 Can they all get along ?Or will our fear of kids surfing for dirty pictures behind their bedroom doors provoke a crackdown ? 问题是他们都能和睦相处吗?人们是否会因为害怕 孩子们躲在卧室里看网上的淫秽图片而将它封杀? 3 The first order of business is to grasp what cyberspace is . 首先要解决的问题是，什么是信息空间。 It might help to leave beind metaphors of highways and frontiers and to think instead of real estate . 我们可以抛开高速公路、前沿新领域等比喻，把信息空间看作一个巨 大的庄园。 Real estate ,remember ,is an intellectual ,legal ,artificial environment constructed on top of land. 请记住，庄园是人们智慧的结晶，是合法的、人工营造的氛围，它建立在土地之上。 Real estate recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall ,between red-light zone and school district ,between church ,state and drugstore . 在庄园里，公园和 商业中心、红灯区与学校、教堂与杂货店都能区分开来。 4 in the same way , you could think of cyberspace as a giant and unbounded world of virtual real estate . 你可以用同样的方法把信息空间想像为一个巨大的、无边无际的虚拟庄园。 Some property is privatedly owned and rented out ; other property is common land ; some places are suitable for children , and others are best avoided by all citizens . 其中有些房产为私人拥有并已租出， 有些是公共场所；有的场所适合儿童出入，而有些地方人们最好避开。 Unfort