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TED演讲(视频+MP3+双语字幕):取消订阅邮件的苦恼(1)

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  • It's funny the things you forget.
  • 很多你不记得的东西是很搞笑的。
  • I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how,
  • 前几天我去看我老妈,她告诉我了这样一个故事,我已经完全忘了,
  • when we were driving together, she would pull the car over,
  • 我们曾经一起开车出去,她要停车,当她从车里出来,
  • and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car,
  • 围着车绕了一圈,然后准备让我也下车,
  • I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.
  • 我那时已经下了车,并且假装已经死了。
  • Because that's how you die.
  • 因为在那时你差不多就是这么“死”的。
  • And I remember, that was a game I used to play with myself to entertain myself whenever I was bored or frustrated.
  • 我记得,我以前常常和自己玩装死,只要我无聊或者感到沮丧我就玩装死 来自娱自乐。
  • Settle down. People say we live in an age of information overload. Right?
  • 好让自己冷静点。人们常说我们生活在信息膨胀的时代,对吧?
  • I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.
  • 我也不清楚,但是我知道我常收到很多营销邮件。
  • I got a marketing email from a supermarket firm, which will remain nameless for predominantly legal reasons,
  • 我收到过来自一个超市集团的营销邮件,匿名的邮件,因为一些法律原因,
  • but which I'm going to call "SafeMart."
  • 但是我准备叫它“安全超市”。
  • I got an email from them, and it went like this, it said:
  • 我收到一封他们发的邮件,上面写着:
  • "Just three weeks until SafeMart at King's Cross opens!!!"
  • “还有三周,安全超市就要在国王十字路口开张啦!!!”
  • And I resented this, because not only do I not remember signing up to that,
  • 我讨厌这种邮件,因为不仅我记不得订阅过这样的消息,
  • but I resent the fact that they appear to think that I should be excited about a shop opening.
  • 而且我对于他们理所应当地认为,我应该对于新店开张感到无比兴奋这种事儿非常厌恶。


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很多你不记得的东西是很搞笑的。前几天我去看我老妈,她告诉我了这样一个故事,我已经完全忘了,我们曾经一起开车出去,她要停车,当她从车里出来,围着车绕了一圈,然后准备让我也下车,我那时已经下了车,并且假装已经死了。


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resent [ri'zent]

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vt. 恨,生气

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entertain [.entə'tein]

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v. 娱乐,招待,怀抱

 
settle ['setl]

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v. 安顿,解决,定居
n. 有背的长凳

 
legal ['li:gəl]

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adj. 法律的,合法的,法定的

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