新視界大學(xué)英語(yǔ)綜合教程第三冊(cè)u(píng)nit-5-active-reading課文及翻譯-wenkub
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【正文】 ghborhoods brilliantly: “Being neighborly used to mean visiting people. Now being nice to your neighbors means not bothering them.” People’s lives are shaped by how busy they are. Lives also are shaped by the respect and deference that is given to busyness – especially when it is valued above connection and munity. If people are considerate, they assume that their neighbors are very busy and so try not to intrude on them. Dropping by is no longer neighborly. It is simply rude.5 We treat socializing as if it’s a frivolous diversion from the tasks at hand rather than an activity that is essential to our wellbeing as individuals and as a munity. Soon our not bothering to call people (or even them) gets read by others as a sign that we are too caught up in the busy sweep of our own lives to have time for them. Our friends are not surprised. Our relatives may be indignant, but even they know how hard it is. An unspoken understanding develops. It’s too bad that we’ve lost touch, but that’s just the way it is.6 The pace of everyday life may push us toward isolation, but there is a pull, as well: a very seductive picture of standing apart as a victory, not a retreat. Ever since Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his famous essay and Henry David Thoreau set out to embody the concept in his cabin on Walden Pond, a long series of American icons have idealized the concept of selfreliance.7 And when we do find ourselves isolated
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