TED演讲:取消订阅邮件的苦恼(2)

 So what I did was I scrolled¹ down to the bottom of the email, and I pressed, "Unsubscribe." 于是我滑到邮箱的最底部，点击了下“取消订阅”。

And I thought that'd be the end of it. But a week later, I got another one that said,  我想这样应该就会清净了。但是一周后，我收到了另一封邮件写到，

"Just two weeks until SafeMart at King's Cross opens!!!"  “还有两周安全超市即将在 国王十字路口开张啦！！！”

And I thought, obviously, I haven't clicked hard enough. 我想，应该是我上次没有退订成功。

Right? So I tried it again. Right? Lo and behold², a week passes, you guessed it,  然后我又退订了一次，这样应该好了吧？没想到，过了一周，你猜怎么着，

"Just one week until SafeMart at King's Cross opens!!!"  “还有一周，安全超市 即将在国王十字路口开张啦！！！”

And here's the problem: The internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us. 这就有问题了：互联网让我们与世界相连；同时也让所有东西与我们相连。

It's hard enough to discriminate³ between the things that genuinely matter in this world and the minutiae⁴ of life, 我们可能就会很难分辨世界上真正重要的东西和生活中的鸡毛蒜皮，

without having emails about supermarket chains and Candy Crush Saga⁵. 如果没有关于连锁超市和糖果传奇（一款手机游戏）的邮件。

And I was really annoyed with them, and I thought, OK, I was about to write a strongly worded email, which I can do quite well.  我真的被它们搞烦了，我想，看来我必须要写一封语气很重的回复邮件了，我很擅长这种事儿。 

And I thought, no -- I'm going to find the game. So I replied to it, and I said, "I literally⁶ cannot wait!!!!"  然后我仔细想想，不--我要陪它们玩下去。所以我回复了它，我写到，“我真是等不及了啊！！！”

"What do you need from me?"  “我可以为你们做些什么呢？” 

They got back to me; a guy called Dan said, "Hi James. I've asked a colleague to help me with your query⁷."  一个叫Dan的人给我回复了，写道：“你好 James。我就你的问题向我的同事咨询了一下。”

1 scrolled   

adj.具有涡卷装饰的v.（电脑屏幕上）从上到下移动（资料等），卷页( scroll的过去式和过去分词 )；（似卷轴般）卷起；（像展开卷轴般地）将文字显示于屏幕

参考例句：

• Wherever the drop target can possibly be scrolled offscreen, the program needs to auto-scroll. 无论拖放的目标对象是否在屏幕之外，程序都需要自动滚动。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• If It'still is then you've not scrolled up enough lines. 如果还在说明你向上滚动的行数不够。 来自互联网

2 behold   

v.看，注视，看到

参考例句：

• The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
• The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。

3 discriminate   

v.区别，辨别，区分；有区别地对待

参考例句：

• You must learn to discriminate between facts and opinions.你必须学会把事实和看法区分出来。
• They can discriminate hundreds of colours.他们能分辨上百种颜色。

4 minutiae   

n.微小的细节，细枝末节；（常复数）细节，小事( minutia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the minutiae of the contract 合同细节
• He had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code. 他们讨论旅行的所有细节。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 saga   

n.(尤指中世纪北欧海盗的)故事，英雄传奇

参考例句：

• The saga of Flight 19 is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle.飞行19中队的传说或许是有关百慕大三角最重复的故事。
• The novel depicts the saga of a family.小说描绘了一个家族的传奇故事。

6 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

7 query   

n.疑问，问号，质问；vt.询问，表示怀疑

参考例句：

• I query very much whether it is wise to act so hastily.我真怀疑如此操之过急地行动是否明智。
• They raised a query on his sincerity.他们对他是否真诚提出质疑。