【正文】 ond that transcends politics, religion, race and economic 。We know that Christmas is a time for celebration and family reunions。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。而應該繼續(xù)努力，為自己和他人創(chuàng)造更美好的未來。第四篇：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。Recently Mattel announced a new improved Barbie new version has a slimmer figure, “real” eyelashes and a twistand turn waist that makes her more humanoid than , Mattel announced that, for the first time, any young lady wishing to purchase a new Barbie would receive a tradein allowance for her old 最近Mattel公司推出一款更高級的芭比娃娃，這個新產品身材更苗條，有仿真睫毛，又可以扭轉彎曲的腰肢，所有這些特點使其更加人性化。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：人類和物品的關系越來越短暫。但是這個技術制造的環(huán)境逐漸影響著人類。人造物品進入并影響了人類意識，其數量急劇增長，無論是就絕對而言還是相對而言。Antimaterialists tend to deride the importance of “things.” Yet things are highly significant, not merely because of their functional utility, but also because of their psychological develop relationships with affect our sense of foreshortening of our relationships with things accelerates the pace of ，但是物品是非常重要的，不僅因為它有實用功能，還因為其對精神的影響，我們發(fā)展和物品的關系，物品影響我們對關聯(lián)和斷聯(lián)的意識。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。這種不同在于過去和未來的對比，對于永久的社會和新的變幻無常的社會的對比。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。電視上的烹飪節(jié)目也經常使用一次性的碟子。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品，:她們喜歡把東西留著，即使是舊物品也不會丟。我們隊她們作市場調查，卻發(fā)現她們的抵制情緒很強。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。在當今的日本，一次性的紙巾非常普遍，手絹已經老土了，而且也不衛(wèi)生。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。時尚飾品店和工薪階層服裝店已經陸續(xù)出現一個全新的部門，這個部門專門負責那些色彩艷麗設計特別的紙衣服。圖中的新娘穿著仿蕾絲紙做成的白色長袍裙，標題寫道：這條裙子在婚禮結束后可以做成“不錯的廚房窗簾”。一位時尚專家寫道：“小孩子會亂濺冰激凌，而且他可以在紙衣服上畫畫，或者貼剪紙畫，而母親在一旁微笑的贊許其創(chuàng)造力。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