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自1876年贝尔发明电话已有一百年了。今天,电话已经成为我们生活中的必需品,缺了电话犹如耳目失聪,与世隔绝。然而当电话刚刚发明的时候,人们却很不习惯用它,甚至对它抱着怀疑和恐惧的态度。Clarence Day 在 Father Lets in the Telephone 一文中细腻、生动地描述了电话进入他们家后,他那个性子急、脾气暴的“父亲’如何对待这个只能听其声而不能见其人的”灵巧的装置“。不知您是否记得,这位”父亲“在本刊1999年的第3期中曾经出现过(见 Father Tries to Make Mother LikeFigures’)。
Bell has been calling for a hundred years since 1876. Today, the telephone has become a necessity in our lives. Without a telephone, it is as deaf and as isolated as ever. However, when the phone was just invented, people were not accustomed to using it, and even held skeptical and fearful attitudes toward it. Clarence Day, in the Father Lets in the Telephone, is a delicate, vivid account of how the ”father“ treated his ”impatient, grumpy,“ ”father“ Dexterous Device. ”I do not know if you remember that this“ Father ”appeared in the third issue of 1999 (see Father Tries to Make Mother LikeFigures).