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Time is a gentle deity (神), said Sophocles. Perhaps it was, for him. These d
Time is a gentle deity (神), said Sophocles. Perhaps it was, for him. These d
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Time is a gentle deity (神), said Sophocles. Perhaps it was, for him. These days it cracks the whip. We humans have chosen speed, and we thrive on it-more than we generally admit. Our ability to work and play fast gives power. It thrills us.
Not so long ago, for most people, listening to the radio was a single-task activity. Now it is rare for a person to listen to the radio and do nothing else. Even TV has lost its command of our foreground. In so many households the TV just stays on, like a noisy light bulb, while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering (闪烁) glow.
Our culture views time as a thing to hoard and protect. Time saving is the subject of scores of books with tines like Streamlining Your Life, Take Your Time, More Hours in My Day. Marketers anticipate our desire to save time, and respond with fast ovens, quick playback, quick freezing and fast credit.
We have all these ways to "save time", but what does that concept really mean? Does time saving mean getting more done? If so, does talking on a cellular phone at the beach save time or waste it? If you can choose between a 30-minute train ride, during which you can read, and a 20minute drive, during which you cannot, does the drive save ten minutes? Does it make sense to say that driving saves ten minutes from your travel budget while removing ten minutes from your reading budget?
These questions have no answer. They depend on a concept that is ill formed: the very idea of time saving. Some of us say we want to save time when really we just want to do more and faster. It might be simplest to recognize that there is time and we make choices about how to spend it, how to spare it, how to use it and how to fill it.
Time is not a thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. It is what we live in. [br] The sentence "These days it cracks the whip" in the first paragraph indicates that______.
选项
A、time is sacred
B、time is mysterious
C、time is last
D、time is invisible
答案
C
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