时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too little and lie too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice; we write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies, but have less communication. We are long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion 1; tall men and short character; steep profits and shallow relationships.

1 digestion
n.消化,吸收
  • This kind of tea acts as an aid to digestion.这种茶可助消化。
  • This food is easy of digestion.这食物容易消化。
学英语单词
a hue and cry
abbotts
Acer saccharum
air resistance
amp-hr
antarctic peninsulas
apo-Transferrin
assorted wafer
automatic weft winder
azodibenzoyl
backup battery
Ban Pa Phai
betwixen
bhikshus
bridle hitch
bulk solid loader and unloader
Burdizzo pincer
capital-investments
carbolic-acid
cause of criminality
chronic recurrent erysipelas
cinnamene
Clark Center
clinotabula
coerulescent
colestrum
commodity ownership
contact head
content replication
cubitts
cycle transformation
dauerlarva
decennium
disconnecting clutch
double jersey
drip board
dry type tower abrasion mill
elogium
exfoliation cracking
flat-shooting
flow concentration curve
forsmite
grounding current compensation
helium nucleus
hinge upon
holds with
hovorka
iaastd
Iliat
illite clay
impeller mixer
imperfect seed
inner electrolyte
instruction-oriented algorithms
laminar flow clean room
lapsus linguae
liquor coneae
little school plan
mark of direct interpretation
mean increase of power in waves
medical payments insurance
micro flip-flop
mixed acid-base disturbance
Musophaga
niobous
northwestern united statess
order Lepidodendrales
panda
penholder grip
phosphor screen brightness
pirandamine
piston looling system
pleased
podicipediform bird
power belt
quasi official
racetracks
radioactive fallout plot
rain rot
range-velocity display
renibus penaei
repetitive execution
rickettsia
rolling stay
seed harvester
silius
stock-pricer
successive difference
Teague-Travis's culture-medium
techniques of acupuncture and moxibustion
tetrasporaphite
there'd
two-byte conversion
unappropriates
unaromatic
underwater handling system
unejaculated
uninfluenceable
verruca peruviana
water yield formation
water-methanol injection
Westphalian Age