1. Elephants like to have one master just as dogs do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection.
    大象和狗一样，喜欢有一个专一的主人，而且会对主人产生相当深厚的私人感情。

2. Each teenager is expected to cover his or her own expenses for articles for personal use, entertainment, long-distance telephone calls and clothing.
    每个孩子的个人用品、娱乐、长途电话及衣服都得自己掏钱。

3. Each week a computer totals the average length of your calls; if it is under 14 minutes, you're in trouble.
    每周，电脑会累计你所接听电话的平均长度；如果不到14分钟，你就有麻烦了。

4. But studies have found that although fathers' income usually exceeds mothers' income, women usually contribute a larger proportion of their income to their household, while men keep more for their personal use, such as for entertainment.
    但已有研究发现，尽管父亲的收入通常要超过母亲的收入，母亲通常会将自己大部分的收入用于家庭，而父亲却多用于个人消费，如娱乐等。

5. Broadly speaking, however, the superhighway refers to the union of today's broadcasting, cable, video, telephone, and computer and semiconductor industries into one large all-connected industry.
    但广义地说，信息高速公路是指由今天的广播、电视、录像、电话、电脑、半导体等产业组合而成的一个互相关联的大产业。

6. It cannot judge distances, depths. Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop (partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly three-dimensonal distances.
    不会判断距离和深度。慢慢地，由于自身安全和实际需要，儿童必须发展（部分通过触觉）粗略判断三维空间距离的能力。

7. With scarcely a glance at the items, the clerk sweeps them across an aperture, where a special marking on each item is scanned by a low-powered laser beam inside the machine, connected to a remote computer.
    收款员几乎不看商品，只是把商品从机器上的孔眼处一扫而过，机器里的低能量激光对商品上的一个特殊标志进行扫描，这台扫描机与另一台电脑相联。

8. With computer-assisted check-out, keeping items of one kind together is no longer necessary.
    有了电脑辅助的收款方式，这一点已无关紧要。

9. We, therefore, save most personal visiting for after-work hours or for social weekend gatherings.
    因此我们把大多数个人间的拜访放在下班以后的时间里或周末的社交聚会上进行。

10. We produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices; we communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts,
    我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置；我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流, 而不是通过直接接触。