英语翻译英语翻译Our neighbourhoods are bathed in high-intensity light;we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow.尤其是后面那句, 英语
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【答案】 我们身边的人都置身在强光中,即使是一小片的“阴暗”,于我们亦是一种伤不起的奢侈.
neighborhoods 别被这个词误导了,在此只指周围的人.
还有even so much a luxury as a shadow.后半句可写成：we do not even want to afford ourselves so much a luxury as a shadow.
shadow在此也未必是指“影子”、“阴暗”,可能是比喻“阴谋”.
这一句的上下文如下：
With electronic X-ray equipment,we seem finally to have figured out a way to hold the terrorists,real and imagined at bay; it was such a relief to solve this problem that we did not think much about what such a state of affairs says about the quality of our lives.We now pass through these electronic friskers without so much as a sideways glance; the machines,and what they stand for,have won.
●Our neighborhoods are bathed in high-intensity light; we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow.●
Businessmen,in increasing numbers,are purchasing new machines that hook up to the telephone and analyze a caller's voice.The machines are supposed to tell the businessman with a small margin of error,whether his friend or client is telling lies.