​四级2015年12月仔细阅读P5(wallet）

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3.But I’ll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble (鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.

翻译：不过我会把经济学上的问题留给专家。关于钱包的消亡，困扰我的是这所代表的我们的物质环境的变化。与一只钱包的外观与触感相关的一切——扣件和材质随着岁月流逝而被磨损撕裂，变得松松垮垮的过程；钱包里的塑料、纸张、金银制品，还有手写的电话号码以及印刷的电影票——都与我们的世界正要成为的样子相反。钱包的相反面是智能手机和iPad。圆溜溜的边缘，冰凉的玻璃，像鹅卵石一样光滑而不可知。我们不用再在纸片中翻来翻去或费力地往钱包的角落里看，取而代之，我们只是左右移动手指。不用再数硬币了。亮出你的钱包吧，如果你还有一个钱包。它可能不会存在多久了。

词汇：

1) bother ['bɒðə(r)] v.烦扰；使恼怒；使不安

2) represent [ˌreprɪˈzent] v.代表；象征

3) plastic [ˈplæstɪk] n.塑料 a.塑料的

4) print [prɪnt] v.印刷

5) edge [edʒ] n.边缘；优势

6) dig through 翻遍；挖掘

7) peer into 窥视;仔细看

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