雅思课外阅读--没有过去的人3

摘要：今天要跟大家分享的雅思阅读素材题目是没有过去的人3，正文都做了贴心的注解，并挑出了经典句式跟观点，我们在雅思写作中可以学习借鉴。一起来看看吧！

作为雅思考生，我们读外刊要有一定的目的性，不仅仅是为了扩大我们的阅读面，还要有意识地针对雅思考试，提高自己的水平。希望大家不帮是看源文内容，更要对文中注释加以学习消化，希望对大家有帮助！

What to do? This isn’t just a question of being better at preserving old data –although this wouldn’t be a bad idea, given just how little is currently able to last decades rather than years. More importantly, it’s about determining what is worth preserving in the first place – and what it means meaningfully to cull information in the name of knowledge.

怎么办?这个问题已经不仅仅在于怎样更好保存旧数据的范畴——尽管这并不是个坏主意，鉴于现在很少有东西能流行保留10年之久。更重要的是，这个问题首先关系到确定哪些东西值得优先保存，以及怎样以知识的名义选择有意义的信息。

【大作文万用句式】

What to do? This isn’t just a question of being better at …

怎么办?这个问题已经不仅仅在于怎样更好地……

given 鉴于

More importantly, …更重要的是，……

in the first place 首先

in the name of…以……的名义

【经典句式】

preserve保存

【犀利观点】科技进步改变人的习惯：喜新厌旧

What’s needed is something that I like to think of as “intelligent forgetting”: teaching our tools to become better at letting go of the immediate past in order to keep its larger continuities in view. It’s an act of curation akin to organising a photograph album– albeit with more maths. When are two million photographs less valuable than two thousand? When the larger sample covers less ground;when the questions that can be asked of it are less important; when the level of detail on offer instils not useful scepticism,but false confidence.

或许我们需要的是我所称之为的“智能性遗忘”：应该让我们的工具更多地放弃最近的信息，从而在长远视角上保持更高水平的连续性。这有点像整理一本影集—尽管需要用到更多的数学方法。什么时候两百万张照片的价值比两千张照片更低?当样本量大而覆盖范围反而小的时候;当我们问的问题的重要性低的时候;当其提供的细节水平灌输的不是有用的质疑，而是虚假信心的时候。

【大作文万用句式】

What’s needed is something that I like to think of as …或许我们需要的是我所称之为的……

albeit 尽管

【经典句式】

intelligent 智能性的

let go of放弃

continuity连续性

keep… in view持续关注

akin to sth 类似

album影集;专辑

instil灌输

sample样本

scepticism怀疑

Many data sets are irreducible and most precious when complete: gene sequences; demographic data; the raw,hard knowledge of geography and physics. The softer the science, however, the more that scale is likely inversely to correlate with quality –and the more important time itself becomes as a filter. Either we choose carefully what endures, matters and meaningfully captures our receding past –or its imprint is silently supplanted by the present’s growing noise.

许多数据集是无法缩减的，越挽拯救就越宝贵：基因序列、人口统计学数据、地理和物理学的原始观测数据等等。数据的科学性越弱，数据规模与数据的质量就越可能呈现负相关，此时时间本身就成为更加重要的过滤工具。我们如果不仔细选择过去保存下来的有价值、有意义的事物，它们就会被当下日渐膨胀的信息洪流悄无声息地取代。

【经典句式】

irreducible无法缩减的

gene sequences基因序列

demographic data人口统计学数

raw原始的，粗糙的

likely可能的;往往

inversely相反地

correlate with … 和……相关

filter过滤

endure持续

capture抓住

recede后退;消逝

imprint印记

supplant代替

the present当下

【犀利观点】越完整越宝贵;保留过去