[1]It is a narrow room, a meter and a half wide, decorated『裝飾;布置』with the awkward『令人尷尬的;不合適的』minimalism『抽象派藝術(shù)』, peeling『剝落;脫落』white paint, tilting『傾斜;翹起』buffet『自助餐』tables, schoolroom chairs bolted『用螺栓拴緊』together into haphazard『雜亂的;隨意的』couches『沙發(fā)』.But the attraction here isn’t the decor『裝飾;布置』; it’s the machines: a beige『米色的』Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Power edge, hooked『鉤進(jìn);鉤住』into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers『路由器(連接數(shù)個(gè)區(qū)域網(wǎng)絡(luò)的中繼裝置)』and, from there, via a thumb-thick『拇指粗的』black cable, to the infinite『無限的;無邊的』abundance『豐富』of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, can’t resist『忍住;抵抗』a grin『露齒的笑;咧嘴的笑』as he looks around the modest『不太大的;適度的』but astonishing『令人驚異的;令人吃驚的』room buried within a warren『擁擠的地區(qū);擁擠的房屋』of offices in the bunker-like hallways『象地下室樣的過道』under Beijing’s Capital Stadium. “Welcome to ground zero,” he says.

[1]這是間狹小的屋子，1.5米寬，裝飾著制作粗糙的抽象畫，剝脫的白色涂料，傾斜的快餐店用桌，用鉚釘固定在一起的教室用椅。但是這兒引起人們注意的不是它的裝飾，而是機(jī)器：一臺(tái)米色康柏Proliant 2500計(jì)算機(jī)和一臺(tái)灰白色的德爾Power edge，聯(lián)著一臺(tái)冰箱大小的網(wǎng)絡(luò)路由器，從那兒，通過一條拇指粗的黑色電纜線，進(jìn)入廣袤無邊的因特網(wǎng)世界。指揮這個(gè)小小信息前哨的是35歲的中國(guó)企業(yè)家愛德華?曾，此刻，當(dāng)他環(huán)視這個(gè)擠在北京首都體育館腳下一排擁擠的辦公室中簡(jiǎn)樸然而卻令人振奮的小屋時(shí)，不禁咧嘴笑了。他說：“歡迎進(jìn)入信息革命的中心。”

[2]There is very little you cannot reach from Zeng’s tiny room. Zeng’s 1,000 Internet subscribers『預(yù)定者;認(rèn)購(gòu)者』can dial into his computers from all over Beijing and connect nearly limitlessly『無限地;沒有邊界地』to the electronic world. They can send e-mail, photos and news of China. And they can receive practically『差不多;幾乎』anything else.

[2]在曾的小屋里你幾乎沒有得不到的東西。曾的1000位因特網(wǎng)用戶可以從北京各個(gè)地方撥號(hào)進(jìn)入他的計(jì)算機(jī)，聯(lián)通幾乎沒有邊界的電子世界。他們能夠發(fā)送電子郵件、照片以及中國(guó)新聞。他們也能夠收到任何其他東西。

[3]At night, hundreds of Chinese who don’t own a PC crowd into『蜂擁而入』Zeng’s six Internet Cafes, where Net time retails『零售』for $3.6 an hour. It’s fast food for the information age.

[3]夜幕降臨時(shí)，數(shù)以百計(jì)沒有自己的個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)的中國(guó)人就會(huì)擁到曾的6間“網(wǎng)絡(luò)咖啡屋”中，這里的上網(wǎng)機(jī)收費(fèi)為每小時(shí)3.6美元。這是信息時(shí)代的快餐。

[4]This is China? That shows that Beijing has settled on『確立;確定』a policy for the Net that is as bold as it is surprising. A rising generation of Western-educated『接受西方教育的』officials is pressing『催促;勸說』home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport『運(yùn)送;運(yùn)輸』the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. “The Chinese get the Net, O.K.?” says Sean Maloney, who ran Intel’s Asia-Pacific operations for three years. “China is going to be unrecognizable『無法認(rèn)出的;不能識(shí)別的』in five years. And a large part of that change is going to come through『顯露』the Internet and onto computer screens.”

[4]這是中國(guó)嗎?這表明北京已經(jīng)選定了一種贊同網(wǎng)絡(luò)的政策，這是一種既大膽又出人意料的舉措。處于上升態(tài)勢(shì)的一代受過西方教育的官員正在竭力使人們接受這種觀念，即網(wǎng)絡(luò)是將中央王國(guó)帶入21世紀(jì)的最好交通工具。曾經(jīng)為英特爾公司負(fù)責(zé)過3年亞太業(yè)務(wù)的肖恩?馬洛尼說：“中國(guó)人上網(wǎng)了，對(duì)嗎?5年后中國(guó)人會(huì)變得讓你認(rèn)不出來。這種變化的一大部分將通過因特網(wǎng)反映到計(jì)算機(jī)屏幕上。”

[5]In January the Chinese government approved『批準(zhǔn)』a new series of laws designed『設(shè)計(jì);計(jì)劃』to control how citizens connect to the Internet. But although the laws featured『以……為特色』the usual restrictive『約束的;限制性的』rhetoric『辭令;言語』, they were clearly designed not to keep the Chinese off the Net but to get them online in an orderly way.

[5]今年1月，中國(guó)政府批準(zhǔn)了一系列旨在控制公民接通因特網(wǎng)的新法律，這些法律的初衷是控制公民與國(guó)際互聯(lián)網(wǎng)相連。盡管法律條文中充滿了具有限制特色的詞語，但其目的顯然不是不讓中國(guó)人上網(wǎng)，而是使他們有秩序地上網(wǎng)。