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A woman says there have been fewer street fights since the arrival of the wireless but also less stopping and “talking on the brush handle”.

一位女士说，自从有了无线电，街头打架少了，但人们停下来“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的情况也少了。

Today we fret about the isolating culture of smartphone-staring and selfie-vanity, but already in 1939 there was that lady regretting how, when all her street got wirelesses, it lost the neighbourly habit of “talking on the brush handle”.

如今我们为盯着智能手机、沉迷自拍虚荣所造成的孤立文化而烦恼，但早在1939年，就有那位女士惋惜，当她所在的整条街都装上了无线电后，邻里间“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的习惯就消失了。

The expression “talking on the brush handle” in Paragraphs 3 and 6 refers to the act of ____

第3段和第6段中的“talking on the brush handle”指的是____的行为

That’s about as effective as brushing dirt under a carpet and can even make us ill.

这差不多就像把灰尘扫到地毯下面一样无济于事，甚至可能让我们生病。

The state's proposed Forest Carbon Plan aims to double efforts to thin out young trees and clear brush in parts of the forest.

该州提出的《森林碳计划》旨在加倍努力，在部分林区间伐幼树、清除灌木。