VOA标准英语2009年-Want to Lose That Double Chin?
时间：2019-02-05 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(十二月)
Ted 1 Landphair | Washington, DC 30 November 2009
One of the hottest terms in the mushrooming field of personal communication devices - including cell phones and other palm-sized gadgets 2 - is app - short for application. These handheld phones, texting machines, and entertainment centers can be - and many have been - loaded with hundreds of such applications of your choosing. Many apps are free; others cost a few dollars at most.
Popular apps include music playlists, weather radar 3 readings, audio books, computer games, broadcasts of your favorite sports, and television shows. You name it, and there's probably an app for it.
But would you have guessed that there's a brand-new app on which you can practice . . . plastic surgery!?
Virtually, of course. You don't wield 4 a scalpel. You can upload pre-programmed images of ordinary people and, using just your thumbs on your PDA, give them a tummy tuck, a nose job, or tighter skin around their eyes. It's a complete image modification 5, as the application's developer calls it.
And the person getting the fuller cheeks or more bountiful bosom 6 could be YOU if you upload your own image. According to Michael Salzhauer, the Miami, Florida, plastic surgeon who developed "isurgeon," this app delivers realistic photo alterations 7 while allowing users to partake in plastic surgery games playing the role of the surgeon.
The game mode costs less than a dollar for unlimited 8 play. The advanced version costs less than two dollars, for which one can practice the kind of dramatic cosmetic 9 changes seen in beauty-makeover shows on television.
Of course, once you've seen yourself with perfectly 10 reshaped ears, pouty 11 lips, and a flat tummy, what will you think the next time you pass a mirror?
Read more of Ted's personal reflections and stories from the road on his blog, Ted Landphair's America.
- The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
- She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
- Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
- This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置，做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
- They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
- Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。
- They wield enormous political power.他们行使巨大的政治权力。
- People may wield the power in a democracy.在民主国家里，人民可以行使权力。
- The law,in its present form,is unjust;it needs modification.现行的法律是不公正的，它需要修改。
- The design requires considerable modification.这个设计需要作大的修改。
- She drew a little book from her bosom.她从怀里取出一本小册子。
- A dark jealousy stirred in his bosom.他内心生出一阵恶毒的嫉妒。
- Any alterations should be written in neatly to the left side. 改动部分应书写清晰，插在正文的左侧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code. 基因突变是指DNA 密码的改变。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
- There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
- These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
- Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品，所以请尽情微笑吧！
- The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
- Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。