Unit 1：cyberspace ：if you don't love it ,leave it
信息空间：出入随愿
1 狂热者 something in the American psyche loves new frontiers.
美国人的内心深处具有一种酷爱探索新领域的气质。
We hanker after wide-open spaces ;we like to explore ;we like to make rules but refu to follow them .
我们渴求宽敞的场地，我们喜欢探索，喜欢制定规章制度，却不愿去遵守。
But in this age it's hard to find a place where you can go and be yourlf without worrying about he neighbours .
在当今时代，却很难找到一块空间，可以供你任意驰骋，又不必担心影响 你的邻居。
2 There is such a place : cyberspace . 藩篱的读音
确实有这样一个空间，那就是信息空间。
Formerly a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace . Formely a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace now embraces every conceivable constituency : school children , flirtatious ,singles ,Hungarian-Americans, accountants .
这里原本是计算机迷的游戏天地，但如今只要想像得到的各类人群应 有尽有，包括少年儿童、轻佻的单身汉、美籍匈牙利人、会计等。
Can they all get along ?Or will our fear of kids surfing for dirty pictures behind their bedroom doors provoke a crackdown ?
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问题是他们都能和睦相处吗?人们是否会因为害怕 孩子们躲在卧室里看网上的淫秽图片而将它封杀?
3 The first order of business is to grasp what cyberspace is .
首先要解决的问题是，什么是信息空间。
It might help to leave beind metaphors of highways and frontiers and to think instead of real estate .
我们可以抛开高速公路、前沿新领域等比喻，把信息空间看作一个巨 大的庄园。
Real estate ,remember ,is an intellectual ,legal ,artificial environment constructed on top of land. valueof请记住，庄园是人们智慧的结晶，是合法的、人工营造的氛围，它建立在土地之上。
最后一天的英文Real estate recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall ,between red-light zone and school district ,between church ,state and drugstore .
在庄园里，公园和 商业中心、红灯区与学校、教堂与杂货店都能区分开来。
4 in the same way , you could think of cyberspace as a giant and unbounded world of virtual real estate .
你可以用同样的方法把信息空间想像为一个巨大的、无边无际的虚拟庄园。
Some property is privatedly owned and rented out ; other property is common land ; some places are suitable for children , and others are best avoided by all citizens .
其中有些房产为私人拥有并已租出， 有些是公共场所；有的场所适合儿童出入，而有些地方人们最好避开。
Unfortunately ,it's tho places that are now capturing the popular imagination ,plaecs that offer bombmaking instructions ,pornography, advice on how to steal credit cards .
不幸的是，正是这些应该避开的地方使得人 们心向神往。这些地方教唆你如何制造炸弹、为你提供淫秽材料、告诉你如何窃取信用卡。
They make cyberspace sound like a nasty place . Good citizens jump to a conclusion : Better regulate it .
所有这些使信息空间听 起来像是一个十分肮脏的地方。
5 i like it like that But before using regulations to counter indecency ,it is fundamental to interpret the nature of cyberspace .
正直的公民纷纷作出这样的结论：最好对它严加管理。但是，在利用规章制度来反击下流之举之前，关键是从根本上理解信息空间的性质。
Cyberspace isn't a frontier where wicked people can grab unsuspecting children ,nor is it a giant television system that can beam offensive messages at unwilling viewers .恶棍并不能在信息空间抢 走毫无提防之心的儿童；信息空间也不像一台巨大的电视机，向不情愿的观众播放令人作呕的节目。
In this kind of real estate ,urs have to choo where they visit ,what they e ,what they do .It's optiona .
在信息空间这 座庄园里，用户对他们所去之处、所见所闻、所做所为都要作出选择，一切都出于自愿。
In other words,cyberspace is a voluntary destination --in reality ,many destinations .
换句话说，信息空间是个 出入自便的地方，实际上，信息空间里有很多可去之处。
You don't just get "onto the Net" ;you have to go someplace in particular .
陈布达 陈佩斯人们不能盲目上网，必须带着具体的目标上网。
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That means that people can choo where to go and what to e .
这意味着 人们可以选择去哪个网址、看什么内容。
Yes , community standards should be enforced ,but tho standards t by cyberspace communities themlves ,not by the courts or by politicians in Washington .
不错，规章制度应该在群体内得以实施，但这些规章制度必须由信息空间 内各个群体自己来制定，而不是由法庭或华盛顿的政客们来制定。
6 what makes cyberspace so alluring is precily the way in which it's different from shopping malls , television ,highways and other terrestrial jurisdictions. 信息空间之所以具有如此大的诱惑力，正是因为它不同于商场、电视、公路或地球上的其他地方。
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But let's define the territor: 那么，让我们 来描述一下这个空间。
7 First ,there are private e-malil conversations ,similar to the conversations you have ov
er the teleophone . The are private and connsualand require no regulation at all .
首先，信息空间里人与人之间可以进行电子邮件交流。这种交流类似于电话交谈，都是私 人之间的、两相情愿的谈话，不需要任何规章制度加以限制。
8 Second , there are information and entertainment rvices , where people can download anytihing from legal texts and lists of "great new restaurants " to game software or dirty pictures .
其次，信息空间提供信息与娱乐服务。人们可以从中下载各种信息，从法律文件、 “大型新饭店”名单，到游戏软 件、下流图片，无奇不有。
The places are like bookstores ,malls and movie hous --places where you go to buy something .
这里如同书店、商场和电影院，属购物区域。
The customer needs to request an item or sign up for a subscription; stuff (especially pornography ) is not nt out to people who don't ask for it .
