2011年高考(北京卷)英语听力真题 独白
日期:2016-08-05 13:23

(单词翻译:单击)

Well, we're now looking at ways of making shopping less tiring.
好的,我们现在正在想办法使购物不那么累。
You know, a day at the shops wears people out and we considered a number of ideas.
大家都知道,商店里每天都有人携带着物品,我们考虑了几种方法。
Carrying shopping around is very tiring, and we looked at ways to avoid that.
携带购物是很累的,我们来看看如何避免。
We thought of hiring out small electrically driven cars to shoppers.
我们想把小型电动汽车出租给顾客。
But we came up against problems of space, there just isn't enough room.
但我们遇到了空间问题,只是没有足够的空间。
We also thought about those moving walkways, like the ones you see at the airports.
我们也想过那些移动行走的方式,就像你在机场看到的那些。
We decided it against then though, because they require a major redesign of the whole center.
我们决定反对,因为他们需要重新设计整个中心部分。
What we have actually come up with is a new technology where you buy what you want and then just leave it on the shelf.
我们实际上提出了一种新的技术,你在任何地方买你想要的东西,只需要把它放在架子上。
That way, you don't need to carry your heavy shopping around with you all day.
这样,你就不需要整天背着你所购买的物品了。
When you want to go home, our computer system automatically sends everything you've bought to your exit point, and you pick it up there.
当你想回家的时候,我们的电脑系统会自动把你所买的每一件商品都送出去,然后你就可以把它带走。

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重点单词
  • shelfn. 架子,搁板
  • avoidvt. 避免,逃避
  • automaticallyadv. 自动地,机械地
  • tiringadj. 令人疲倦的,麻烦的