新概念英语第四册29-04

接下来课文....Apart from the care of children and periods of sheer rest, the active lives were spent in the cities. In some ways the concentration of such activities was even more emphasized, and the Homes were pushed outwards even at the cost of the discomfort of commuting. ...

apart from 除了

active lives 活动生活 主要生活

in some ways 在某些方式上而言

menace :威胁 不舒适

接下来课文...But, if we examine the trend of technology during the past generation, the reasons for this concentration are largely disappearing. ...

examine: 探究

helicopter :直升机

profoundly modified 深刻地变化

The city now is moving outward to the outskirts.

philosopher: 哲学家

A.N Whitehead (1861-1947)

1924,he became the professor of University of Harvard.He wrote a very famous

book 'principia of mathematic'

coauthors: 合著者

giant in philosophy 哲学巨人

the greatest logician : 最伟大的逻辑学家

If you roll off my log,I will roll off yours. 你捧我,我也捧你.

接下来课文...Still more, the reasons for the choice of sites for cities are also altering. Mechanical power can be transmitted for hundreds of miles, men can communicate almost instantaneously by telephone, the chiefs of great organizations can be transported by airplanes, the cinemas can produce plays in every village, music, speeches, and sermons can be broadcast. Almost every reason for the growth of the cities,concurrently with the growth of civilization has been profoundly modified.