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🤔️小作业：

1. What is the primary concern expressed by the author throughout the passage?

A. Modern travelers are overwhelmed by excessive technological choices.

B. Digital personalization may prevent travelers from engaging with new environments.

C. Global cities have become too similar to one another.

D. People today prefer virtual entertainment to real-world travel.

无注释原文：

Traveling Without Seeing

From: The New York Times

SHANGHAI — I'm half a world from home, in a city I've never explored, with fresh sights and sounds around every corner. And what am I doing?

I'm watching exactly the kind of television program I might watch in my Manhattan apartment.

Before I left New York, I downloaded a season of “The Wire,” in case I wanted to binge, in case I needed the comfort. It's on my iPad with a slew of books I'm sure to find gripping, a bunch of the music I like best, issues of favorite magazines: a portable trove of the tried and true, guaranteed to insulate me from the strange and new.

I force myself to quit “The Wire” after about 20 minutes and I venture into the streets, because Baltimore's drug dealers will wait and Shanghai's soup dumplings won't. But I'm haunted by how tempting it was to stay put, by how easily a person these days can travel the globe, and travel through life, in a thoroughly customized cocoon.

I'm not talking about the chain hotels or chain restaurants that we've long had and that somehow manage to be identical from time zone to time zone, language to language: carbon-copy refuges for unadventurous souls and stomachs.

I'm talking about our hard drives, our wired ways, “the cloud” and all of that. I'm talking about our unprecedented ability to tote around and dwell in a snugly tailored reality of our own creation, a monochromatic gallery of our own curation.

This coddling involves more than earphones, touch pads, palm-sized screens and gigabytes of memory. It's a function of how so many of us use this technology and how we let it use us. We tune out by tucking ourselves into virtual enclaves in which our ingrained tastes are mirrored and our established opinions reflected back at us.

In theory the Internet, along with its kindred advances, should expand our horizons, speeding us to aesthetic and intellectual territories we haven’t charted before. Often it does.

But at our instigation and with our assent, it also herds us into tribes of common thought and shared temperament, amplifying the timeless human tropism toward cliques. Cyberspace, like suburbia, has gated communities.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

Traveling Without Seeing 别在虚拟世界里忘了现实

From: The New York Times

SHANGHAI — I'm half a world from home, in a city I've never explored, with fresh sights and sounds around every corner. And what am I doing?

上海——此刻我身在地球的另一端，一座我从来未曾探访过的城市，每一个角落的所见所闻都是新鲜的。那么，我在干什么呢？

I'm watching exactly the kind of television program I might watch in my Manhattan apartment.

我在看跟我在曼哈顿的公寓里会看的几乎一样的电视节目。

Before I left New York, I downloaded a season of “The Wire,” in case I wanted to binge, in case I needed the comfort. It's on my iPad with a slew of books I'm sure to find gripping, a bunch of the music I like best, issues of favorite magazines: a portable trove of the tried and true, guaranteed to insulate me from the strange and new.

离开纽约前，我下载了一季《窃听》（The Wire，又译《火线重案组》——译注），以便在我需要放纵自己或寻求慰藉时用得上。我把剧集存在iPad里，除此之外还有一大堆我肯定能看得下去的书，一些我最喜欢的音乐，几期我最爱的杂志：这是一座经过考验的移动宝藏，肯定能将我与新鲜陌生的事务隔离开来。

download /ˌdaʊnˈləʊd/ 表示“（尤指从互联网或较大型计算机上）下载”，英文解释为“to copy or move programs or information into a computer's memory, especially from the internet or a larger computer”

binge /bɪndʒ/可以作动词，也可以作名词，表示“（尤指在饮食和花钱方面）无节制的狂热行为，狂欢，放纵，狂闹”，英文解释为“If you binge, you do too much of something, such as drinking alcohol, eating, or spending money.”如：a drinking/eating/spending binge 狂饮/暴食/滥花钱，举个🌰：He went on a five day drinking binge. 他连续5天狂饮。

📍binge drinking可以指“暴饮（酒），酗酒”（the activity of drinking too much alcohol on one occasion）。

📍binge watching可以理解为“无节制地狂看某部电视连续剧”或者说“追剧，刷剧”；binge-watch作动词，举个🌰：We binge-watched an entire season of Breaking Bad on Sunday. 我们星期天一口气看完了整季的《绝命毒师》。

📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述奈飞（Netflix）的文章中提到：Investors lap it up as hungrily as Netflix binge-watchers, who now number 193m worldwide. 投资者对奈飞的追捧一如从世界各地到它网上追剧的1.93亿人。

slew /sluː/ 表示“很多，大量”，英文解释为“a large amount or number”举个🌰：There have been a whole slew of shooting incidents. 已经发生过大量枪击案。

作动词，表示“（使）突然转向”，英文解释为“to turn or be turned round suddenly and awkwardly”举个🌰：The car hit a patch of ice and slewed around violently. 汽车碰到了一片冰，猛地打起转来。

gripping /ˈɡrɪp.ɪŋ/ 表示“引人入胜的，扣人心弦的，激动人心的”，英文解释为“Something that is gripping is so interesting or exciting that it holds your attention completely.”举个🌰：I found the book so gripping that I couldn't put it down. 我觉得这本书太吸引人了，一看就难以释手。

trove /trəʊv/ 表示“有价值的物品（信息）；藏宝地，宝库”，英文解释为“a group of valuable or interesting things or pieces of information, or the place where they are”通常会说a treasure trove of sth.，如：a treasure trove of information 丰富的信息，举个🌰：LearnAndRecord Shop is a treasure trove of curiosities and gadgets. “LearnAndRecord商店”是一座新奇物品的宝库。

insulate /ˈɪn.sjə.leɪt/ 1）表示“使隔绝，使隔离”，英文解释为“to protect someone or something from harmful experiences or influences”举个🌰：Children should be insulated from the horrors of war. 应该让孩子远离战争的恐怖。

2）表示“使隔热；使隔音；使绝缘”，英文解释为“to cover and surround something with a material or substance in order to stop heat, sound, or electricity from escaping or entering”举个🌰：You can insulate a house against heat loss by having the windows double-glazed. 你可以给窗户装上双层玻璃来防止热量散失。

I force myself to quit “The Wire” after about 20 minutes and I venture into the streets, because Baltimore's drug dealers will wait and Shanghai's soup dumplings won't. But I'm haunted by how tempting it was to stay put, by how easily a person these days can travel the globe, and travel through life, in a thoroughly customized cocoon.

看了大概20分钟后，我强迫自己放下《窃听》，到街上走走，因为巴尔的摩的毒贩子会等我，上海的汤团却不会。但令我不能释怀的是，待着哪也不去的想法居然如此诱人，现如今一个人可以躲在高度定制的蚕茧里周游世界、遍历人生。

haunt /hɔːnt/ 表示“使经常苦恼，不断困扰”，英文解释为“to cause repeated suffering or anxiety”举个🌰：30 years after the fire he is still haunted by images of death and destruction. 那场火灾过去30年之后，死亡和毁灭的场景仍在他脑海中挥之不去。

表示“留在原地；留在原来的位置”，英文解释为“to remain in the same place or position”举个🌰：Just stay put with the suitcases, while I go and find a cab. 你留在这儿看箱子，我去叫出租车。

cocoon /kəˈkuːn/ 1）表示“茧；卵袋”，英文解释为“the covering made of soft, smooth threads that surrounds and protects particular insects during the pupa stage as they develop into adult form”

2）表示“安全宁静的地方；避风港”，英文解释为“a safe, quiet place”如：the warm, safe cocoon of childhood 童年生活的温馨安逸、备受呵护。

I'm not talking about the chain hotels or chain restaurants that we've long had and that somehow manage to be identical from time zone to time zone, language to language: carbon-copy refuges for unadventurous souls and stomachs.

我指的不是连锁酒店或连锁餐厅，这些东西我们早就已经有了，并且不知不觉做到了在不同时区、不同语言环境下都一模一样：为不喜冒险的灵魂和胃批量复制的避难所。

identical /aɪˈden.tɪ.kəl/ 表示“完全相同的；极为相似的”，英文解释为“exactly the same, or very similar”举个🌰：I've got three identical blue suits. 我有3套完全相同的蓝色西装。

carbon copy /ˌkɑː.bən ˈkɒp.i/ 1）表示“复写本”，英文解释为“a copy of a document, made with carbon paper”

2）表示“极为相似的人（或物）；翻版”，英文解释为“a person or thing that is very similar to or exactly like another person or thing”举个🌰：She's a carbon copy of her mother. 她跟她母亲长得一模一样。

I'm talking about our hard drives, our wired ways, “the cloud” and all of that. I'm talking about our unprecedented ability to tote around and dwell in a snugly tailored reality of our own creation, a monochromatic gallery of our own curation.

我指的是我们的硬盘，我们的联网手段，“云”之类的东西。我指的是我们可以把一个我们自创的、精心定制的现实，一家我们亲手策划布置的单一性画廊随身携带，并沉迷其中。

unprecedented /ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/ 表示“史无前例的，空前的；绝无仅有的”，英文解释为“never having happened or existed in the past”举个🌰：This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale. 环境在本世纪遭到了空前的破坏。

词源和词根："un-"是"不"的意思，"precedented"来自拉丁语的"praecedere"，意为"走在前面"。派生词：unprecedentedly，常用短语：unprecedented event 空前的事件。

🎬电影《星运里的错》（The Fault in Our Stars）中的台词提到：You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. 你太忙于做自己 都没有意识到自己是那么的令人心动。

tote /təʊt/ 表示“携带，搬运，背负（尤指重物或不便之物）”，英文解释为“to carry something, especially something heavy or awkward”如：She usually toted the pup around in her handbag. 举个🌰：Gun-toting security men were posted at all the entrances. 所有的入口处都部署了配枪保安人员。

tote = tote bag表示“大手提包，大手提袋”，英文解释为“a large bag for carrying things with you”

dwell /dwel/ 表示“居住，栖身”，英文解释为“to live in a place or in a particular way”举个🌰：She dwelt in remote parts of Asia for many years. 她在亚洲边远地区居住了很多年。

monochromatic /ˌmɒn.əʊ.krəˈmæt.ɪk/ 表示“黑白的；单色的”，英文解释为“using only black, white, and grey, or using only one colour”举个🌰：He is noted for his monochromatic paintings in oils and pastels. 他以油彩和粉彩的单色画而闻名。

curation /kjʊəˈreɪ.ʃən/ 1）表示“（为某目录、网站等进行的）内容筛选”，英文解释为“the selection of something such as documents, music, or internet content to be included as part of a list or collection or on a website”如：digital content curation 数字内容筛选。

2）表示“（博物馆的）策展；艺术收藏品，展品”，英文解释为“the selection and care of objects to be shown in a museum or to form part of a collection of art, an exhibition,, etc.”如：the curation of archaeological artefacts 考古文物的策展。

This coddling involves more than earphones, touch pads, palm-sized screens and gigabytes of memory. It's a function of how so many of us use this technology and how we let it use us. We tune out by tucking ourselves into virtual enclaves in which our ingrained tastes are mirrored and our established opinions reflected back at us.

环侍执乐的不只是耳机、触控板、手掌大小的屏幕和亿万字节的存储空间。它是一种功能，源自我们如何使用这种技术，以及我们怎样让这种技术使用我们。我们把自己关在虚拟的世外桃源中，对外界不闻不问，在这里我们固有的品味被原样复制，我们的成见得以自证。

coddle /ˈkɒd.əl/ 作动词，表示“（尤指把鸡蛋在稍低于沸点的水中）煮嫩，煮软”，英文解释为“to cook food, especially eggs, in water just below boiling temperature”如：coddled eggs 煨煮的鸡蛋，也可以表示“娇养；溺爱；悉心呵护”，英文解释为“to protect someone or something too much”举个🌰：The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies. 钢铁产业受到贸易保护和巨额补贴的双重呵护。

在这个语境中，“coddling”的意思不是字面意义上的“娇惯”或“溺爱”，而是带有隐喻色彩的 “过度呵护”或 “营造舒适区”。具体来说，作者用这个词来批评现代科技产品和服务的一种倾向：它们通过算法和个性化设置，为用户营造一个“自我封闭的舒适空间”。

tuck /tʌk/ 1）表示“把（衣服等的末端）塞进”，英文解释为“to push a loose end of a piece of clothing or material into a particular place or position, especially to make it tidy or comfortable”举个🌰：Should I tuck my shirt into my trousers? 我应该把衬衫下摆塞进裤子里吗？

2）表示“把…夹入；把…藏入；把…塞入”，英文解释为“to put something into a safe or convenient place”举个🌰：She had a doll tucked under her arm. 她把玩具娃娃夹在胳膊下。

3）表示“使蜷缩，使收缩”，英文解释为“to hold part of your body in a particular position”举个🌰：Stand up straight, tuck your tummy in and tuck your bottom under. 站直了，收腹提臀。

In theory the Internet, along with its kindred advances, should expand our horizons, speeding us to aesthetic and intellectual territories we haven't charted before. Often it does.

理论上说，互联网和与其相关的进步一样，应该能拓展我们的视野，推动我们进入陌生的审美和智识领域。事实通常也的确如此。

kindred /ˈkɪn.drəd/ 表示“相似的；相关的；有血缘关系的”，英文解释为“similar or related”举个🌰：They sell dried fruit and nuts and other kindred products. 他们售卖水果干和坚果，以及其他类似的东西。

aesthetic /iːsˈθetɪk；esˈθetɪk/ 表示“审美的；有审美观点的；美学的”，英文解释为“concerned with beauty and art and the understanding of beautiful things”如：an aesthetic appreciation of the landscape 用审美的眼光欣赏风景。

But at our instigation and with our assent, it also herds us into tribes of common thought and shared temperament, amplifying the timeless human tropism toward cliques. Cyberspace, like suburbia, has gated communities.

但是在我们的怂恿和允许下，它也会把我们赶进一个见解统一、性情共通的群落里，将人类亘古不变的“扎堆”倾向放大。和城市郊区一样，赛博空间也是一种封闭社区。

instigation /ˌɪn.stɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ 表示“发起；鼓动；唆使”，英文解释为“the action of causing an event or situation to happen by making a set of actions or a formal process begin”举个🌰：The inquiry was begun at the instigation of a local MP. 调查是在一位当地议员的鼓动下开始的。

assent /əˈsent/ 表示“同意；赞成”，英文解释为“official agreement to or approval of an idea, plan, or request”举个🌰：She nodded her assent to the proposal. 她点头表示同意该建议。

herd一词，此前在澳大利亚已射杀5000头骆驼一文中就提到，Helicopter-borne marksmen killed more than 5,000 camels in a five-day cull of feral herds. 表示“兽群；牧群”，英文解释为“a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed together”，如：a herd of cattle/elephants/goats 一群牛/大象/山羊。

📍herd也可以指「人群；芸芸众生」，英文解释：a large group of people of the same type，如：普通百姓就是the common herd (= ordinary people)，随大流就是follow the herd.

作动词，herd /hɜːd/ 表示“（将…）赶成一群，放牧”，英文解释为“to make animals move together as a group”举个🌰：An old woman was herding the goats. 一位老妇人正在山坡上放牧山羊。也可以表示“（常指强迫性地）使集中在一起”，英文解释为“to make people move somewhere as a group, often against their wishes or with difficulty”

amplify /ˈæm.plɪ.faɪ/ 表示“增强，放大”，英文解释为“To amplify something means to increase its strength or intensity.”举个🌰：These stories only amplified her fears. 这些故事徒增了她的恐惧感。

tropism /ˈtrəʊpɪzəm/ 表示“（生物的）向性”，英文解释为“the fact of living things turning towards or away from something, for example light”

clique /kliːk/ 表示“小集团，小圈子；派系”，英文解释为“a small group of people who spend their time together and do not welcome other people into that group”举个🌰：Our golf club is run by a very unfriendly clique (of people). 我们的高尔夫球俱乐部是由一小撮很不友好的家伙管理的。

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