求助英语翻译(人类语言非机器语言,谢谢)
求助英语翻译(人类语言非机器语言,谢谢)
The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that involvement in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify (意味) anger.
The culture shock phenomenon causes a breakdown in communication, a misreading of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady(弊病), future shock. Future shock is brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow.
Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to different conceptions (概念) of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else, then the dislocation he suffers will be severe. Given few clues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the radically new circumstances, the victim may well become a danger to himself and others.
Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire generation including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation (迷失方向), future shock on a grand scale.
This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching(把 ... 淹没) upon our heads and most people are unprepared to cope with it.