现代大学英语精读5中goods move .people move .ideas move .and cultures move 课文翻译
现代大学英语精读5中goods move .people move .ideas move .and cultures move 课文翻译如下:
Now?computers,?the?Internet,?cellular?phones,?cableTV,?and?cheaper?jet?transportation?haveaccelerated?and?complicated?these?connections.
现今,计算机、互联网、移动电话、有线电视和价格低廉的喷气式飞机空运加速了这种联系,并使其更加复杂化。
Still,?the?basic?dynamic?remains?the?same:?Goodsmove.?People?move.?Ideas?move.?And?cultureschange.?The?difference?now?is?the?speed?and?scopeof?these?changes.?
It?took?television?13?years?toacquire?50?million?users;?the?Internet?took?only?5.
尽管如此,产生这些变化的动力却是一致的;商品流通、人员流动、观念转变、文化变迁。现在不同的是这些变化的速度和范围。电视机用了 13年时间拥有5000万用户,而互联网只用了5年时间。
Not?everyone?is?happy?about?this.?Some?Western?social?scientists?and?anthropologists,?and?nota?few?foreign?politicians。
believe?that?a?sort?of?cultural?cloning?will?result?from?what?they?regardas?the?"cultural?assault"?of?McDonald's,?Coca-Cola,?Disney,?Nike,?MTV。
and?the?Englishlanguage?itself—more?than?a?fifth?of?all?the?people?in?the?world?now?speak?English?to?somedegree.?Whatever?their?backgrounds?or?agendas。
these?critics?are?convinced?that?Western—often?equated?with?American—influences?will?flatten?every?cultural?crease,?producing,?as?oneobserver?terms?it,?one?big?"McWorld."
并非所有人都对这种变化感到满意。一些西方社会学家、人类学家和相当多的外国政治家认为文化克隆是麦当劳、可口可乐、迪士尼、耐克和MTV“文化侵略”的结果,同时也是英语语言本身的结果,因为现在世界上有五分之一以上的人口或多或少地使用英语。
不论他们的背景和理念如何,这些对全球化持反对态度的人都深信西方的——往往等同于美国的——影响会把文化上的差异逐一摧毁。正如一位观察家所说的,这最终将导致一个“麦当劳世界”,一个充斥美国商品和体现美国价值观的世界。
Popular?factions?sprout?to?exploit?nationalist?anxieties.?In?China,?where?xenophobia?andeconomic?ambition?have?often?struggled?for?the?upper?hand。
a?recent?book?called?China?CanSay?No?became?the?best-seller?by?attacking?what?it?considers?the?Chinese?willingness?tobelieve?blindly?in?foreign?things。
advising?Chinese?travelers?to?not?fly?on?a?Boeing?777?andsuggesting?that?Hollywood?be?burned.
利用国民的焦虑和不安情绪的派别不断涌现。在中国,恐外自闭和容外发展经济的思潮一直在争取统治地位。最近出版的《中国可以说不》大为畅销。这本书对那种中国人盲目崇洋媚外心理进行了批驳,建议中国游客不要乘坐波音777飞机,并建议烧毁好莱坞大片。
There?are?many?Westerners?among?the?denouncers?of?Western?cultural?influences,?but?JamesWatson,?a?Harvard?anthropologist,?isn't?one?of?them.
许多西方人对西方文化影响持抨击态度,但哈佛大学人类学家詹姆斯·沃森所持观点有异。