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口语原文及翻译

I sometimes wonder what life will be like in the future. Life has changed so much in just the past few years. I'm sure that there are still big changes that are coming. Do you think we'll still drive cars? Maybe we'll get into computerized vehicles that we won't have to drive. We'll just push a few buttons and the vehicles will take us to wherever we have to go. 

我有时会想未来的生活会是什么样子。短短几年间，生活发生了巨大的变化。我相信未来还会有巨大的变化。你认为我们还会开车吗？也许我们会进入计算机化的车辆，我们不需要开车。我们只需按几个按钮，车辆就会带我们去任何我们要去的地方。

Maybe there won't be roads; you might just fly through space to get where you want to go. Instead of telephones, we'll just use our computers. We'll be able to see each other when we talk. That type of thing is already happening. Maybe we won't have to cook our meals. We might be able to push buttons to order whatever we want. A nice roast beef dinner or an ice cream sundae might just pop out of a machine. 

也许不会有道路；你可能只需飞越太空就能到达你想去的地方。我们不用电话，只需使用电脑。我们说话时就能看到对方。这种事情已经发生了。也许我们不需要做饭。我们只需按一下按钮就可以订购任何我们想要的东西。一顿美味的烤牛肉晚餐或一份冰淇淋圣代可能会从机器里自动出来。

It would be nice to have a robot to clean the house for you. In the past few years, computers have been extremely important. People used to write to each other through the mail. Now people communicate so much more frequently through email. Most of my friends own computers. If we had all of these things to do the work for us, what would we do? 

如果有一个机器人帮你打扫房子就好了。在过去的几年里，电脑变得非常重要。人们过去通过邮件互相写信。现在人们通过电子邮件交流的频率要高得多。我的大多数朋友都有电脑。如果我们有所有这些东西来为我们工作，我们会做什么？

We would still need people to program the computers. We could spend more time being creative, rather than doing everyday chores. The future holds many surprises. I'm sure that technology will become even more and more amazing. When my parents were young, they had never even seen a color television. Nobody owned a computer. It doesn't take long for things to change a lot. Who knows what amazing things are in store for us?

我们仍然需要人来编程计算机。我们可以花更多的时间进行创造性工作，而不是做日常琐事。未来充满惊喜。我相信技术会变得越来越神奇。当我的父母年轻的时候，他们甚至从未见过彩色电视。没有人拥有电脑。事情很快就会发生很大的变化。谁知道我们会遇到什么奇妙的事情呢？

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