Sending Messages
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Introduction Have you ever written someone a note?
导言 你给别人写过字条吗?
Have you ever sent an email?
你发过邮件吗?
If so,you were sending a message.
如果是的话,你就是在发信息
People have always found ways to send messages to each other.
人们总是想方设法互相传递信息.
The way we send messages has changed over time.
我们发送信息的方式随着时间的推移而改变。
Each change has allowed people to send messages farther.
每次更改都允许人们更远地发送信息.
and faster Messages from Long Ago Beating on a drum was one of the earliest ways to send a message.
和更快的讯息 从长相击打一鼓 是最早发出讯息的方式之一。
Some of the earliest drums were hollow logs.
最早的一些鼓是空心木.
People beat on the.
众被打.
logs with large sticks.
有大棒的木头。
This sent signals a long distance.
这发出了很长的距离信号。
Sometimes drumbeats could be heard several miles away.
有时在几英里外听到击鼓声。
Different drumbeats meant different things.
不同的鼓手意味着不同的东西。
One might send a warning of danger.
可能会发出危险警告
Another might announce that a meeting.
另一个人可能宣布开会。
was going to take place Smoke was also used to send messages.
烟雾也被用来发送信息。
A blanket was placed over a smoking fire.
在一起烟火上放上被毯子。
When the blanket was removed,a puff of smoke rose into the air.
当毯子被取出后,一股烟雾升入了空气.
Each pattern of puffs meant something different Mail Over time,people developed.
泡泡的每个图案都不同 邮件 随着时间的推移,人们有了发展。
written language.
书面语言。
This meant that messages could be written and then sent.
这意味着信息可以写出,然后发出。
Written messages became.
书面信息变成。
the first mail The first mail carriers carried mail by foot.
第一个邮件 第一批邮递公司用脚运送邮件。
These runners ran long distances to carry mail.
这些跑者长途跋涉运送邮件。
Sometimes a group of runners carried a piece.
有时一群跑者带着一块.
of mail.
邮件。
Each runner ran a part of the total distance Later,horses were used to carry mail.
每个跑者跑出总距离的一部份 后来,马被用来运送邮件。
This way of carrying mail was called the Pony Express.
这种携带邮件的方式被称为"小马快车".
Trains then replaced horses.
火车随后取代了马.
Mail is still carried today.
今天还有邮件
Most mail is now carried on trucks and planes Telegraph Over 150 years ago,a man found a way to send signals over a wire.
大多数邮件现在用卡车和飞机运送 150多年前的电报 一个人找到办法通过电线发送信号
His invention was called the telegraph.
他的发明被称为"电报".
His name was Samuel Morse.
他叫塞缪尔·摩斯
The signals he used were known as Morse code.
他使用的信号被称为"摩斯密码".
This code was a series of dots and dashes.
这个代码是一系列的点和破折号.
Each dot or dash was heard as a signal.
每个点或破折号都被听到作为信号.
Different patterns stood for different letters.
不同的图案代表不同的字母。
Look at the chart below.
看看下图.
Can you write your name in Morse code?
你能用摩斯密码写出你的名字吗?
Telephone A little more than 30 years after the invention of the telegraph,someone invented the telephone.
电话 在电报发明30多后,有人发明了电话.
This person was named Alexander Graham Bell.
此人被取名为亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔.
Using the telephone,people could send voice messages over a wire.
通过电话,人们可以通过电线发送语音信息.
Today,voice messages are sent through the air on radio waves Walkie-talkies and Cell Phones Once people found ways to send signals through the air without wire, new kinds of message senders were invented.
今天,语音信息通过空中通过无线电波对讲机和手机发送,一旦人们找到在没有电线的情况下通过空中发送信号的方法,就发明出新型的信息发送者.
One kind was the walkietalkie.
一种是对讲机。
It got its name because you did not have to stay in one place to use it.
它的名字是因为你不用呆在一个地方使用它。
You could “walk and talk ” Today,many people carry small wireless telephones called cell phones.
许多人都携带小型无线电话,
People can use cell phones to talk from just about anywhere.
人们可以使用手机从任何地方谈论。
Cell phones are also used for texting— sending short,typed messages Email Computers have made it possible to send and receive messages over the Internet Internet messages are called email,which is short for electronic mail.
手机也用于发短信——发送短而有型的信息 电子邮件计算机使得通过互联网发送和接收信息成为可能,互联网信息称为电子邮件,电子邮件简称为电子邮件.
Email is much, much faster than regular mail.
电子邮件比普通邮件快很多
An email can be sent to someone on the other side.
可以发送电子邮件给另一边的人。
of the world.
这个世界。
in an instant Conclusion One thing is certain.
在即时结论中 有一点是肯定的。
People will always send messages to each other.
人们总是互相传递信息.
Message sending has changed a great deal since early messages were first sent.
自早期消息首次发送以来,消息发送发生了很大变化.
We will most likely find even more ways to send messages in the future
我们今后最有可能找到更多的方式发信