【正文】 linked for brief periods with the succession of objects that supplant ，來適應(yīng)一次性的產(chǎn)品。Price, of course, is a critical factor behind the paper a department store features simple Aline dresses made of what it calls “devilmaycare cellulose fiber and nylon.” At $ each, it is almost cheaper for the consumer to buy and discard a new one than to send an ordinary dress to the it will more than economics is involved, for the extension of the throwaway culture has important psychological ，價格是紙用品猛增的重要原因。圖中的新娘穿著仿蕾絲紙做成的白色長袍裙，標題寫道：這條裙子在婚禮結(jié)束后可以做成“不錯的廚房窗簾”。即使在法國，一次性的打火機也很普遍，從牛奶紙盒到為太空提供動力的火箭，它們對我們的生活起著越來越重要的作用。Thus a writer, Edward Maze, has pointed out that many Americans visiting Sweden in the early 1950’s were astounded by its cleanliness.“We were almost awed by the fact that there were no beer and soft drink bottles by the road sides, as, much to our shame, there were in by the 1960’s lo and behold, bottles were suddenly blooming along Swedish highways? What happened? Sweden had bee a buy, use and throwaway society, following the American pattern.” In Japan today throwaway tissues are so universal that cloth handkerchiefs are regarded as old fashioned, not to say England for sixpence one may buy a “Dentamatic throwaway toothbrush” which es already coated with toothpaste for its onetime even in France, disposable cigarette lighters are cardboard milk containers to the rockets that power space vehicles, products created for shortterm or onetime use are being more numerous and crucial to our way of ，作家E M 指出在十二世紀五十年代初期，很多區(qū)瑞典觀光的美國人都被瑞典的干凈所震驚“讓我們敬佩的是路邊沒有一個啤酒瓶和軟飲料瓶，而自慚形穢的是，美國到處都是。The idea of using a product once or for a brief period and then replacing it, runs counter to the grain of societies or individuals steeped in a heritage of long ago Uriel Rone, a market researcher for the French advertising agency Publicis, told me: “The French housewife is not used to disposable likes to keep things, even old things, rather than throwaway did a marketing study for them and found the resistance too strong.” This resistance, however, is dying all over the developed ，不久前，法國廣告代理公司P的一位市場調(diào)查員U R 告訴我“法國的家庭主婦并不習慣于使用一次性的產(chǎn)品，:她們喜歡把東西留著，即使是舊物品也不會丟。紙尿褲，圍裙，紙巾，手絹，非循環(huán)使用的蘇打汽水瓶—所有這些在她家被迅速使用，有的被無情的丟棄。Moreover, our attitudes toward things reflect basic value could be more dramatic than the difference between the new breed of little girls who cheerfully turn in their Barbies for the new improved model and those who, like their mothers and grandmothers before them, clutch lingeringly and lovingly to the same doll until it disintegrates from sheer this difference lies the contrast between past and future, between societies based on permanence, and the new, fastforming society based on ，我們對物品的態(tài)度反映了基本的價值評判。人造物品進入并影響了人類意識，其數(shù)量急劇增長，無論是就絕對而言還是相對而言。What Mattel did not announce was that by trading in her old doll for a technologically improved modes, the little girl of today, citizen of tomorrow’s superindustrial world, would learn a fundamental lesson about the new society: that man’s relationships with things are increasingly ，通過折舊芭比娃娃來銷售新款芭比娃娃，今天的小女孩，明天工業(yè)化社會的公民就會得出這樣一個對社會的基本認識：人類和物品的關(guān)系越來越短暫。第三篇：英國女王2013 圣誕演講Unit7 Things: The Throwaway Society一次性社會“Barbie,” a twelveinch plastic teenager, is the best known and bestselling doll in its introduction in 1959, the Barbie doll population of the world has grown to 12,000,000— more than the human population of Los Angeles or London or girls adore Barbie because she is highly realistic and eminently , Inc., maker of Barbie, also sells a plete wardrobe for her, including clothes for ordinary daytime wear, clothes for formal party wear, clothes for swimming and “芭比”曾是歷史上最著名最暢銷的洋娃娃，自從1959年問世以來，全世界的芭比娃娃的數(shù)量增長到1200,0000人—比洛杉磯，倫敦和巴黎任何一個城市的人口還要多。Christians are taught to love their neighbours, having passion and concern, and being ready to undertake charity and voluntary work to ease the burden of deprivation and ，有同情心，樂于慈善和志愿工作，以減輕貧困和不利的負擔。am confident that this diverse Commonwealth of nations can strengthen the mon bond that transcends politics, religion, race and economic 。always been more important in promoting our unity than symbolism 、人民密不可分。New munication technologies allow them to reach out to the wider world and share their experiences and many, the practical assistance and networks of the Commonwealth can give skills, lend advice and encourage ，給予意見和鼓勵進取。Well over 13,000 soldiers from the United Kingdom, and across the Commonwealthare currently serving in 、澳大利亞、。2009年對很多人來說都不好過，尤其是那些深受經(jīng)濟衰退之苦的人們。.The carol gives the answer 39。to serve, not to be served39。第一篇：英國女王2012年圣誕演講This past year has been one of great celebration for enthusiasm which greeted the Diamond Jubilee was, of course, especially memorable for me and my family.“It was humbling that so many chose to mark the anniversary of a duty which passed to me 60 years of all ages took the trouble to take part in various ways and in many perhaps most striking of all was to witness the strength of fellowship and friendship among those who had gathered together on these occasions.”Prince Philip and I were joine