Shopping & Communication 网购与网聊

Online Shopping

Expressions	翻译
technological marvels	技术奇迹
reduce the footfall of traditional stores	减少传统商店的客流量
mobility restrictions	流动性限制
far-flung areas	偏远地区
scale back	按比例缩小
the genuity of commodity	商品的真实性

1. The ever-increasing ease of access to the internet is a boon for a number of groups of people.

2. With the advent of information age, the way people live, work, play and learn has undergone a noticeable and far-reaching transformation.(科技类话题固定开头)

Distant Communication

emotional alienation	情感疏离
irreversible tendency	不可逆转的趋势
an increasingly prevalent number of individuals	越来越多的人
indispensable part of life	生活中不可缺少的一部分
verbal communication	言语交流
compelling obligation	强迫性义务
deteriorating phenomenon	恶化的现象
disseminate information	传递信息
instant messages	即时消息
a sound relationship	良好的关系

1. The Internet disseminating and applying widely exerts the devastating impact on the social skills of individuals.
2. Mere endorsing words of good character by texts cannot inculcate the right kind of virtue, thereby further laying emphasis on human presence for future is required.
3. After all, fire is a good servant, but a bad master.（科技类表示主观点的套句谚语：不要过度依赖）
4. Those who ==harbour== prejudice toward social media and regard it as the factor of ==undermining== face-to-face interaction are actually old-fashioned and even ==out of touch==, since they picture the scenes decades ago when friends and family members contacted with each other by merely typing and receiving messages on a cold screen instead of talking face to face.