【正文】 orld of limitless possibilities, and we can never achieve our aim. It is not more time we need: it is fewer desires. We need to switch off the cellphone and leave the children to play by themselves. We need to buy less, read less and travel less. We need to set boundaries for ourselves, or be doomed to mounting despair.Article1_WOld Father Time Bees a Terror Once upon a time, technology, we thought, would make our lives easier. Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with everincreasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure. But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium. And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.Article1_W_popwin_quantities ofOld Father Time Bees a Terror Once upon a time, technology, we thought, would make our lives easier. Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with everincreasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure. But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium. And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.quantities of: a large amount of The key to staying healthy and strong when backpacking (挑運(yùn) ) is to eat large quantities of energyrich foods. In cold weather most animals must eat large quantities of food to obtain the energy needed to carry on normal body activities. 在寒冷的冬天，大部分動(dòng)物必須通過吃大量的食物來獲得維持正常生命活動(dòng)的能量。Collocation: a large quantity of 大量的Article1_W_popwin_eat intoOld Father Time Bees a Terror Once upon a time, technology, we thought, would make our lives easier. Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with everincreasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure. But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium. And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.eat into: gradually reduce the amount of (sth. valuable)。 damage or destroy Acid eats into the metal, damaging its surface.Collocation: eat out of 吃光 …His extravagances ate into his inheritances. The aircraft promised new horizons, too. The trouble is, it delivered them. Its very existence created a demand for timeconsuming journeys that we would never previously have dreamed of undertaking the transatlantic shopping expedition, for example, or the trip to a convention on the other side of the world.Article2_S_popwin_The trouble… The motorcar, for example, promised unimaginable levels of personal mobility. But now, traffic in cities moves more slowly than it did in the days of the horsedrawn carriage, and we waste our lives stuck in traffic jams. 1. What do “deliver” and “them” here refer to?2. What does “trouble” imply?“Deliver” means to provide or to bring, “them” here refers to “horizons”.It implies the unfavorable effect of the invention of aircraft, that is, people, driven on by new horizons, would like to spend more time on timeconsuming journeys. Article3_W In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time the laptoponthebeach syndrome but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, s and voics. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal puters or filling our heads with useless information from the Inter.Article3_W_popwin_in reality In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time the laptoponthebeach syndrome but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, s and voics. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal puters or filling our heads with useless information from the Inter.He became that country’s ruler both in name and reality. in reality: in actual fact。 really Some famous private schools are theoretically open to the public, but in reality are attended by those who can afford the fees. Collocation:accept reality 承認(rèn)事實(shí)deny reality 否認(rèn)事實(shí)face reality 面對(duì)事實(shí) In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. 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