考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2001-Text 2

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　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide -- the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor... My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide...
　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to...英语多被动，汉语多主动，英语转换成汉语的过程中，可以被动转化为主动，即“如今，人们十分关注...”。digital divide“数字鸿沟”；破折号后对digital divide进行补充说明；lecture about“就...作报告”；looming“隐隐约约的，正在逼近的”；visible“明显的”；work against“对...不利，违背”。
　　There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access... More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access... As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead...
　　段首句为本段中心“技术上的一些因素使得数字鸿沟有望缩小。as引导原因状语从句，可以译为“随着”；commercialized“商业化的”；it充当形式主语，真正的主语是to universalize access；in the interest of“为了...的利益”；universalize“使普遍化”；be afraid that“害怕，担心”；leave behind“落后”；as a result“因此”；rather than“而不是”；in the years ahead“在未来的岁月里”。
　　Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to defeat poverty... But it has enormous potential.
　　defeat“击败，战胜”；poverty“贫穷”；have enormous potential“有极大的可能”。
　　... some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure ... in the United States... I believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anywhere else for that matter ... the better off you’re going to be...
　　impoverished“穷困的”，动词形式impoverish“使穷困，使枯竭”；get over“克服”；outdated“过时的，旧式的”；anti-colonial“反殖民主义的”；prejudice“偏见”；with respect to“关于”；foreign investment“外商投资”；invasion“入侵，侵犯”；sovereignty“主权”；infrastructure“基础设施”；for that matter“就此而言”；better-off“更为富裕的”，原级well-off。
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