时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:时尚英语话题


英语课

    61 What’s the Rush?

Sometimes I think we need to get off this wild ride----the ride we call life-----as we know it. As the song goes, “slow down, you’re moving too fast, you got to make the good times last.” Why have we become addicted 1 to fast, and still it’s not good enough? Computers and gadgets 2 need to be faster and faster. Fast food can’t get fast enough. I recently went to a wedding, and it was over so quickly. We don’t want to wait for other cars; we want the ultimate fast lane, with the ultimate speed. Heck, if we could afford it. I’m sure we would take rockets instead of planes.

But even that’s not fast enough. Until the science fictions dream of moving one place to another in a blink 3 of an eye becomes reality, we’ll be unhappy. Perhaps speed is not the answer to happiness all the time. Once in a while, slowing down is the answer. At least enjoy the ride we call life. It’s not just about getting to the end----the end will come, but enjoying the trip. That’s what I need to do more of. What about you? Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!

Talk about it. Are you impatient? How often do you eat fast food? Are you happy with the speed of your computer or your internet connection? Do you wish could slow your life down a little? What do you think people who are always in a hurry? Do you take time out during the day and try to slow things down? What can people do to slowing their life down and not be in such a hurry? Do you know what the expression “take time to smell the roses” means? Dose this expression apply to your life? Are you happy with the current pace of your life?



1 addicted
adj.沉溺于....的,对...上瘾的
  • He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
  • She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
2 gadgets
n.小机械,小器具( gadget的名词复数 )
  • 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
3 blink
vi.眨眼睛,闪烁;vt.眨(眼睛),使闪烁
  • In a blink of an eye he had disappeared.一眨眼的工夫他就没影了。
  • The boy disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye.一眨眼,这男孩就在拐角处不见了。
学英语单词
AAMGA
air armature
angular rotation
antimagnetic force
autolyze
automatic selection of balance network
auxiliary carrier cable
bale sling
be a great help
be indispensable to
bilevel-image
black storm
Blatt-Biedenharn form
bottom-up change
Bow Street Runners
Brunfelsia L.
Canestrari
casing sidetracking
caulescent
ceratostigma
Cobh
colour optics
comfortlessness
Coming events cast their shadows before.
contro-
Conyza blinii
curve of moment to alter trim one centimetre
cytoplasmic inclusions
damaged aircraft
Dhungrebās
direct-current commutating machine
disheritment
DL (diode logic)
epigenetic hydrothermal deposit
facies analysis
ferromagnetism
fraxinellon
germ of regular function
griftah
Han-sur-Lesse
headgrit
huia
hymettus
impugn a piece of evidence
independent production house
infinite scroll
inverse synthetic aperture radar
Islamophobiac
isocandelas
lafley
lamson tube
local education authority (lea)
Mahayana Buddhism
makes water
manufacturing monitoring system
maritime works
Matisse
Missoulians
mouthfucking
musculi pubovesicalis
nasma
NC deep hole drilling machine
necydalis esakii
newspaper headline
ogress
phenolic alcohol
photics
physiological drought
pop across
quantitative formation evaluation
rear bucket
reterence
rhodocene
right angle pier
Seedwell
servicemark
sideband attenuation
Sinendé
sorfol
SPAI-2
spare me an hour
stress-endurance diagram
strontium chloride fluoride
subordinate-centered leadership
synapsins
takeoff runway
takes me down
tannis
total annihilation
tuberculoma en plaque
tw
two strand anneal and pickle line
uniaxial tensile test
universal ear insert
urea apparatus
verandahed
ville
virus-infecteds
weathering residue
Wellingholzhausen
wrongful