Directions: In your essay, youshould 1) describe the drawing briefly, 2) explain its intended maening, and then 3) give your comments.
As is subtly reviewed in the portrayal, a great many people are surfing online. Separated by the stretching spider web, these cyber citizens attempt to communicate with each other. Undoubtedly, the Internet exerts such a profound effect on our life, that it revolutionizes the way of poeples living and thinking. The exaggerative and impressive drawing has symbolically reflected the duality of the relationship between man and the Internet. The spider web epitomizes the Internet which is the most efficient contemporary media of interpersonnal communication. People isolated from each other represent those net citizens who have lost the skill of face-to-face contact and get alienated from each other. The fact that peopel feel reluctant to contact others directly indicates that to some extent some people are too much addicted to the Internet to maintain a regular and wholesome lifestyle. Hence, it is necessary for us to use the Internet in a reasonable way and restrain from overindulgence. For one thing, in addition to providing us many of the facilities and services we now must travle to obtain, with the Internet, the computer will even let us communicated directly with people all over the world and with information sources worldwide. For another, as nearly all activities could be conducted in the comfort of our own homes or offices, we could all become hermit-like, never feeling any need to leave the computer. Accordingly, the challenge of the Internet means we should consider how we can use it, so that it wont control us.
如漫画中所细致揭示的，很多人正在网上冲浪。这些网民被拉伸的蜘蛛网隔开来，试图互相交流。毫无疑问，互联网对我们的生活产生了如此深远的影响，以至于它彻底改变了人们的生活和思考的方式。 这幅夸张且令人印象深刻的漫画象征性地揭示了人与互联网之间的双重关系。这张蜘蛛网是网络这一最搞笑的当代人际交流媒介的缩影。被隔开的人们象征着那些已经丧失面对面交流能力并彼此疏远的网民。人们不愿直接交流的这一事实证明，在某种程度上，有些人太沉迷于网络而无法保持一种正常和健康的生活方式。 因此，我们很有必要以一种合理的方式使用网络，避免过度沉迷。一方面，除了为我们提供很多现在必须远途获取的设施和服务外，通过网络，电脑甚至可以使我们直接与全世界的人们进行交流，并获得全球的信息资源。另一方面，由于几乎所有活动都可以在我们舒适的家庭或办公室中进行，我们可能全都变得像隐士一样，无需离开电脑。总之，互联网的挑战在于我们应该考虑如何使用网络，以免身受其控。