Chapter 19 Part Three: Our Golden Key English Online

English Online English online One day, many years ago, I felt as if my life suddenly changed, and I started working with a computer.Computers have a variety of input methods for us to choose from, Quanpin, Shuangpin, Wubi... Input the written text into the document with a method you like, then edit it, print it out, and bind it. This is better than the past. The manuscript is fast and clean.Printing out a novel in this way, looking at a thick and neat stack of manuscripts, always makes people feel a kind of happiness after labor. It didn't take long for me to use more of the computer's capabilities.In addition to writing, I also used Photoshop to create drawings, and soon I was on the Internet.In the past, I had to subscribe to some newspapers and magazines every year, such as "China Reading News", China Daily, "Chinese Translation", ELLE, "Encyclopedia of Knowledge", etc. After reading the newspapers and magazines, I must deal with them as soon as possible, otherwise they will be on the table in a few days. will pile up into hills.

Since the Internet, I hardly subscribe to newspapers and magazines, because I can read them online, and a lot of news is instant, especially rolling news, which will automatically update the content every minute, which is much faster than waiting to read newspapers .Subscribed non-local newspapers usually can't be read until the next day or later, but the latest news can be browsed immediately on the Internet. I still use e-mail to write letters to my friends without knowing it. In the past, it took several days for those letters to fly over mountains and rivers to reach my friends. The speed of international letters is even slower, that is, express mail ( EMS) will take several days to receive.But when I send a letter by e-mail, I only need to click the mouse, and my letter will be sent immediately.If my friends are online at this time, they will receive my letter almost as soon as I click the mouse.They can also receive the photos I send at the same time, and they may also receive the Flash New Year cards I made myself during the Chinese New Year.

Everything is so fast and convenient in the Internet age. This is an era of rapid change. It leaves many characters and stories in the past far away to history, and also leaves many lifestyles and behaviors in the past forever.At this moment, I think of the desks in the former residences of some literary giants, the inkwells, quill pens on the desks, and the yellow and rough paper they used.They lived in the last century, or an earlier era, Thomas Moore wrote with a quill, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe also wrote with a quill , and William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare), John Milton (John Milton).Under the old oil lamps, they hold quill pens and dip them in ink when writing a paragraph, which is inconvenient and cumbersome.

They must have written many letters, and those letters were usually sent by the coachman to relatives, friends or lovers.In spring, the coachman may whistle in the fresh green in his carriage; in summer, he may ride through the storm; The coachman may be sad, the road in the snow is very long, so long that there is no end in sight.How many people are waiting for a letter and waiting for it!The German composer Schumann once said to his beloved Clara in a letter, I want to catch butterflies, let them be postmen, and bring my letter to you——I want to send my letter to you from Paris, let You are eager to unpack, and to your surprise, I thought I was in Paris.

Years later, people are still waiting, and I have several collections of letters on my shelf, such as Mayakovsky and Lily Brick Correspondence, Kafka's Concise Lena Love Letters, and Simon Beauvoir's Love Letters to Algren.These letters are filled with the anxiety and anxiety of waiting between lovers.Kafka said in a letter to Milena that after sending this letter, I will have to wait ten to fourteen days before I receive a reply... Simone Beauvoir expressed this in a letter, I have to wait another week to receive your next letter, and I feel painfully that you are so far away from me... Some of them even write several letters a day because they miss them, go to the post office several times, and sometimes return Unable to bear the torment of longing, I ran to the post office to send a telegram.

I think, if they lived today, the emotion like raging fire might not be so hot. They only need to click the mouse lightly, and the miss will immediately fly across thousands of mountains and rivers.Many lovers today can no longer feel the hopeless mood, even a pair of foreign lovers don't have to endure unbearable expectations. Perhaps the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet will never appear again in the Internet age. Log in to various websites, online English appears, and new English vocabulary appears, which is not in yesterday's textbook, such as: dotcom generation e-fear or e-depression

e-ticketing (electronic booking) e-zines (electronic magazines) homepage hotlink (hot link) intranet (intranet) hyperlink (hyperlink) netiquette (netiquette) netizen (netizen) search engine It is natural for people to use such English words and phrases.I believe that even people who are not proficient in English will remember these words because they are often on the Internet. In addition, with the rapid development of the Internet, some familiar words now have new and different meanings, for example: save as box (save as text box) default setting (default setting) syntax error (syntax error)

default email (default email) full coverage (full coverage) There are many such words, and of course there are many new and attractive phrases, such as: participating in online chats playing games with other netizens (playing games with other netizens) surfing the Web And when we browse various websites, we will effortlessly remember the English names of those websites, such as: www.stuff.co.uk/toefl.htm www.college.harvard.edu www.dictionary.cambridge.org www.college.harvard.edu/admissions www.online-english.britishcouncil.org www.the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare The Internet provides us with a vast space to express our opinions and suggestions, and it is a space where various languages ​​can be used.This is an infinite space where we can really show our personal charm and wisdom. We can discuss various topics with strangers here, talk about current affairs, politics, economy, culture, archaeology, sex, marriage, astronomy, history... …Here you can talk about everything, or you can talk about nothing serious, just gossip about all over the place, or fooling about as the famous American writer Mark Twain said.You can paste a manuscript that was inadvertently rejected by an editor on the BBC (message board) of a website to win the applause of discerning netizens, or express your own insights on a certain public-profile event... Of course, No matter how wonderful your article is, don't expect to get any compensation. No one pays the manuscript fee at BBS.

English is already a global language, which has become the consensus of people.If we can use English proficiently on the Internet, our horizons will be wider, and we can talk to the globe (dialogue with the whole world) while sitting in front of the computer at home. Our world is changing so fast, and what is particularly interesting is the virtual world, which always changes much faster than the real world.Sometimes, returning to the real world from the Internet, even seems like a world away, it is really amazing!Why is this so?I think, maybe because we just browsed the English-speaking world on the Internet, but the reality is a Chinese-language world, we must have a moment of brain teaser.Ah, I don’t mean to use only English as a language. If so, it would be too monotonous. Cultures are always diverse and colorful. All kinds of cultures should coexist and make progress together. English, Chinese, French, Russian, Arabic...

With the increasing expansion of the network life space, mastering the tool of English, you can watch your favorite English current affairs and live sports reports online. For example, during the Iraq war in 2003, I watched US Central Command Briefing in Doha every day (Briefing of the U.S. Central Command in Doha), see how the spokesman Brooks (Brooks) made the false true and the true false. And the lovely Iraqi Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, was still talking to reporters when the US troops marched into Baghdad: There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! (There are no American Pagans in Baghdad, and there never will be!)

When the press center was bombed, he also told reporters, No, I am not scared, and neither should you be! Be assured. Baghdad is safe, protected. (I am not afraid at all, and neither are you! Rest assured, Baghdad is safe and impenetrable.) I also occasionally watch the NBA All-Star Game, and see how the frustrated coaches stamp their feet and beat their chests on the edge of the court after the players lose, and even yell at them.Then you will hear the most authentic English.I will also browse the latest foreign online novels to see what new "cool things" those online writers have created. Of course, the Internet is still a learning classroom, where you can find everything you want to learn, it is like an all-encompassing world.I've said so much about English Online that I'll actually say more if I go on.Sometimes, I also listen to online English radio, which is a good way to improve my listening. I also downloaded some files, such as VOA (Voice of America) Standard English, as long as I open this file, the charming American English echoes in my ears. around.I love that it keeps me company, and while some of the topics get tiresome, like the endless lies about Iraq's WMDs, and the mysterious disappearance of Saddam Hussein, it's a part of the world. sound. I also searched some natural science websites in English to see the mystery of the disappearance of Mayan culture, whether there is water on Mars, whether there are planets other than Pluto... and the world's astronomy, geography, biology, medicine, archaeology, science The latest news from Expeditions. English Online is like an encyclopedia-like, on-call teacher and friend to us.