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电气时代完好版(作业) 电气时代完好版(作业) 电气时代完好版(作业) The Electrical Age, 1898 to 1934  电气时代 The 1890s and the first decades of the 1890 年-1910 年，我们目睹 20th  century saw theintroduction of some  了一些极受欢迎花费品的问 extremely popular new consumer items.  世。诸如安全剃刀，阿司匹 A whole list of products changed the  林，保温瓶，电热毯，早饭 day-to-day life of the average person:  食品，玻璃纸和人造丝等产 safety razors, aspirin, thermos bottles,  品的涌入改变了人们的平时 electric blankets, breakfast foods,  生活。初期问世的产品，经 cellophone, and rayon. To this array were 过不停的改良，也加入了这 added a constant flood of improvements 个队列，它们随后也都进入 to earlier inventions that also found their 了人们的平时生活，如相机， way into daily life, such as the camera, 打字机，留声机，冰箱，以 the typewriter, the phonograph, 及对人们生活影响最深的产 refrigerator, and most of all, the 品汽车。汽车，作为一部新 automobile. The automobile, anovelty in 奇的交通工具于 1895 年问 1895, was widespread by 1910, and it led 世，直到 1910 年获得宽泛推 to gas stations, traffic lights, and highway 广，它也直接催生了加油站、 systems. The social impact, particularly  交通讯号灯以及公路系统的 in the United States, was profound and  发展。直到  20 世纪  30 年月， dramatic. By the 1930s, the automobile  汽车改变了以前的商业版 had changed thecommercial landscape,  图，随之出现了旅店和公路 with motels and highway cabins, roadside 旅店，路边门客，水果摊， diners, fruit stands, drive-in theaters, and 汽车影院，以及创始了大西 the beginnings of coast-to-coast highway 洋沿岸到太平洋沿岸的沿海 travel.  公路旅游。 As the generation born in the 1880s  19 世纪  80 年月和  19 世纪  90 and 1890sgrew to adulthood, they were  年月出生的一代人，在他们 stunned by the rapid changes, particularly 成年后，他们对迅速的变化 impressed by the automobile, the radio, 感觉震撼，特别是汽车，无 the airplane, and plastics. Like their 线电，飞机和塑料的问世让 grandparents, who had witnessed 他们印象深刻。像他们的祖 profound 19th-century transformation 父亲母亲，目睹了 19 世纪工业革 brought on by the Industrial Revolution, 命所带来的深刻改革。 20 世 the first 20th-century generation 纪初的第一代人常常讨论技 frequently remarked on the positives and 术进步的优弊端。 negatives of technical progress. Life was more comfortable but faster. 生活固然舒坦，但节奏很快。 Cities became gradually clear