Unit 4
1 I would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening, right
after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in the United States be prohibited by law.
我建议每晚六十到九十分钟的晚间新闻完毕之后，美国所有的电视台都应该被法律所禁止。
2 Let us take a serious ,reasonable look at what the results might be if such a
proposal were accepted .
让我们仔细想一下，如果这一建议被接受的合理结果可能是什么。
3 It is well known that many of our problems --- evening, in fact, from the
generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness --- are caused at least in part by failure to communicate.
众所周知的，我们的问题多数是在---晚上，事实上，从代沟到高离婚率再到某种精神病---是由于沟通上的失败导致的
4 Freed from TV , forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride
together to watch the sunset.
从电视中解脱出来，强迫他们做一些自我活动，他们可能一起骑单车去看日落。
5 Few pastimes bring a family closer together than gathering around and
listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour.
很少有娱乐活动能够比家庭成员聚在一起，听妈妈或者爸爸讲个好故事更能使家庭关系联系紧密。这安静的时间就可以成为听故事的时间。
6 Those of us thirty-five and older can remember childhoods without television,
spent partly with radio---which at least involved the listener’s imagination---but also with reading, learning, talking, playing games, inventing new activities.
我们当中三十五岁以上的人还记得童年没有电视的时光，花部分时间听收音机---这至少
涉及到听者的想象力，还花费在看书，学习，讨论，玩游戏，发明新的游戏。
7 She said she was never going back to school and that life without a television
wasn’t worth living.
她说她再也不回学校了，没有电视的生活毫无意义可言。
8 What is good , I suppose, is that many people are concerned about TV’s
influence and that we have the power to change what we don’t like.
我想说，好的是，很多人对电视的影响力和关注，我们有能力改变我们所不喜欢的东西。
9 Electricity, they think, would make things too easy and spoil their way of life.
他们认为，电力使事情太容易了，并会破坏他们的生活方式。
10 Maybe they would be more interested in staying home and watching television.
也许，他们会对呆在家里看电视更感兴趣。