Afraid of Your Computer
克服畏难心理 熟练使用电脑

副题：

惧怕科技（尤其是电脑）是90年代的流行病。 有很多人根本无从逃避电脑。 学会操作电脑并不如一般人想象中那么困难。 不要给厚厚的操作手册吓怕。 你对最有帮助的人未必最懂电脑。 若能克服对电脑恐怕心理，人生会更多彩多姿。

[1]Sue Barrows was enthusiastic『热情的；热中的』when, at age 37, she went back to college to study broadcasting communications. But as she came face to face with the computers involved in video production and editing, she wondered if she'd made a mistake.

[1]37岁的休·巴罗斯充满热情地返回校园学习广播传播。然而当她在影像制作和编辑课上面对电脑时，她怀疑自己做出了错误的选择.

[2]What Barrows lacked in computer savvy『一般常识；实际知识』, she made up for『补回；弥补』in stick-to-itiveness『坚定不移；不屈不挠』. Nine years later, she has an award-winning video company, Barrows Productions, and uses not one but two computers in her home office.

[2]巴罗斯缺乏电脑知识，于是她发奋补习。九年后，她拥有了一家获奖的图像公司——巴罗斯制作公司，在她那既是家又是办公室的屋子里摆着两台电脑.

[3]Barrows's initial『最初的；最早的』apprehension『忧虑；不安』wasn't unusual. A ten-year study completed in 1993 by Dell Computer Corp. underlined『表明；强调』fear of technology—computers in particular—as the phobia『恐惧感；恐惧症』of the 1990s. “The current fear figure,” says California State University psychology『心理学』professor Larry D. Rosen, “is 30 to 40 percent.”

[3] 巴罗斯最初的忧虑并不是个别现象。戴尔电脑公司1993完成的一项10年研究显示：惧怕科技（尤其是电脑）是90年代的流行病。心理学教授莱利·罗新说：“目前，有这种恐惧的人约占30％至40％。” .

[4]For many people, avoiding the computer isn't an option『选择；选择自由』. Since 1984 the number of jobs that require one has risen from 25 to 46 percent. More than 70 percent of management positions now demand computer literacy. Still, almost half the white-collar workers in a 1994 MCI - Gallup survey identified『定义』themselves as “cyberphobic.”

[4]有很多人根本无从逃避电脑。譬如在美国，自1984年以来，须操作电脑的工作岗位由25％增加至46％。超过7成的主管职务规定须谙熟电脑使用。但1994年的MCI－盖洛普调查中，仍有接近一半的白领阶级自认（害怕电脑）。 .

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