#四六级阅读#真题精析-四级2015年12月仔细阅读P5(wallet）
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四级2015年12月仔细阅读P5(wallet）
#考虫四六级系统班#最好的四六级备考方式
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
#考虫四六级系统班#最好的四六级备考方式
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