1.But a watch could never repair itself --- it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction.: R/ N; ]. }- A$ f7 {
2.After millennia of growth so slow that each generation hardly noticed it, the cities are suddenly racing off in every direction.# B1 Z5 ~) E, l! O( c( t
3.There is no reason to believe that this pace will slacken.- L1 k2 T' ~. d1 b$ i) I5 r
4.swallow up … 淹没 e.g. As technology gradually swallows up all forms of work, …
( y- J, o- W' V" _5.This enormous increase will go ahead whatever we do, and we have to remember that the new cities devour space.1 g3 k0 l" z q% m x# {
6.The car also has a curious ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility.% t/ g m& T; U$ p0 P `; l' W
7.This combination of very high density of population, goods and services, and machines, all increasing with almost brutal speed, does account for some really antisocial tendencies in modern urban growth.
# _1 [) A. V; p$ A q( p8.He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the happiness which they carve.
8 [6 M7 u0 \8 Z& [9.But the plight of the world compels his unwilling attention, and when he sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known.
5 _& O, N, b# P& o+ B7 g4 G0 T10.All the same, the balloon has much to be said in its favor, since it can at least carry heavy equipment above most of the atmospheric mass --- thus eliminating blurring and unsteadiness of the image. |
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