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去百度文库,查看完整内容>内容来自用户:timeflyabc新视角研究生英语读说写1课文翻译以及课后习题答案Remote Control1、Recently the Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.最近《华盛顿邮报》刊登了一篇文章,解释家用电器制造商是如何谋划把消费者逼疯的。2、Of course they don’t say they want to drive us insane. What they say they want to do is have us live in homes where“all appliances are on the Internet, sharing information”and appliances will be“smarter than most of their owners.”For example, the article states, you could have a home where the dishwasher“can be turned on from the office”and the refrigerator“knows when it’s out of milk”and the bathroom scale“transmits your weight to the gym.”当然制造商们并没有说他们想把我们逼疯,他们说他们想做的是让我们生活在“所有电器通过互联网实现信息共享”的住宅里。而这些电器比“大多数主人聪明得多”。例如,文章说到你可以拥有这样一个家:洗碗机“可以从你办公室启动”、电冰箱“知道何时牛奶喝完了”、浴室磅秤可以“把你的体重传送到健身房”。3、I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all e respect, have been smoking crack. I mean, did they ever stop to ask themselves why a consumer, after loadi