2020年12月六级第2套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Virtually every activity that entails or facilitates in-person human interaction seems to be in the midst of a total meltdown as the coronavirus outbreak erases Americans' desire to travel. Amtrak says bookings are down 50 percent and cancelations are up 300 percent. Hotels in San Francisco are experiencing __26__ rates between 70 and 80 percent. Broadway goes dark on Thursday night. Universities, now emptying their campuses, have never tried online learning on this __27__. White collar companies like Amazon, Apple, and the New York Times are asking employees to work from home for the __28__ future.

几乎每一个涉及或促进面对面人际互动的活动，似乎都因冠状病毒爆发抹去了美国人出行的意愿而正在经历彻底崩溃。Amtrak表示，预订量下降了50%，取消量上升了300%。旧金山酒店的空置率在70%到80%之间。百老汇在周四晚上熄灯。大学正在清空校园，从未尝试过如此大规模的在线学习。亚马逊、苹果和《纽约时报》等白领公司要求员工在可预见的未来在家工作。

But what happens after the coronavirus?

但冠状病毒之后会发生什么？

In some ways, the answer is All the old normal stuff. The pandemic will take lives, __29__ economies and destroy routines, but it will pass. Americans will never stop going to basketball games. They won't stop going on vacation. They'll meet to do business. No decentralizing technology so far—not telephones, not television, and not the internet—has dented that human desire to shake hands, despite technologists' __30__ to the contrary.

在某些方面，答案是所有旧有的正常事物。大流行将夺走生命、扼杀经济并破坏日常生活，但它会过去。美国人永远不会停止去看篮球赛。他们不会停止度假。他们会面谈生意。迄今为止，没有任何去中心化技术——无论是电话、电视还是互联网——削弱了人们握手的愿望，尽管技术专家的预测相反。

Yet there are real reasons to think that things will not return to the way they were last week. Small __31__ create small societal shifts; big ones change things for good. The New York transit strike of 1980 is __32__ with prompting several long-term changes in the city, including bus and bike lanes, and women wearing sports shoes to work. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 prompted the development of national health care in Europe.

然而，有真实理由认为事情不会恢复到上周的状态。细微的小事造成小的社会转变；大事则永久改变事物。1980年的纽约交通罢工被认为促成了该市的几个长期变化，包括公交车道和自行车道，以及女性穿运动鞋上班。1918年的西班牙流感大流行促使了欧洲国家医疗保健的发展。

Here and now, this might not even be a question of __33__. It's not clear that the cruise industry will __34__. Or that public transit won't go broke without __35__ assistance. The infrastructure might not even be in place to do what we were doing in 2019.

眼下，这甚至可能不是偏好问题。尚不清楚邮轮业能否存活。或者公共交通在没有联邦援助的情况下是否会破产。基础设施可能甚至无法支持我们在2019年所做的事。