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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。
Have you ever stared helplessly at a ZIP disk, thinking: how do I get the files off this?
你是否曾无助地盯着一张ZIP磁盘,心想:我该怎么把文件从里面取出来?
Of course, I need to concede that my collection of “Smiling Victorians” makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created between 1840 and 1900, the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance.
当然,我必须承认,我收集的“微笑的维多利亚人”只占1840年至1900年间所拍摄的大量肖像照中极小的一部分,其中大多数照片里的拍摄对象都在彩绘背景前愁眉苦脸、姿势僵硬,或是茫然地凝视着不远处。
The thought of holding a fixed grin as the camera performed its magical duties was too much to contemplate, and so a non-committal blank stare became the norm.
在相机施展魔法期间一直保持咧嘴笑的表情,这简直不堪设想,因此不置可否的茫然凝视就成了常态。
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In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.
换句话说,在工人阶级因曾经代表美国的机遇正在消失而沮丧、并在政治上把这个国家搅得天翻地覆之际,一个显而易见的解决办法就摆在我们面前。