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【英文译文】
摘要：我时常收到好心的编辑寄来的电脑报刊，面对那些每个字都认识、就是看不懂的天书，心想，这不是给文盲寄报刊吗？
My attitude toward the personal computer
From time to time I receive PC magazines from well-meaning editors. Reading them, I recognize the individual characters, but the whole thing is Greek to me. When faced with such publications, I think to myself, "They might as well send newspapers or magazines to an illiterate." I hate to say it, but I have to confess I don't even know how to type, much less how to surf the Internet. Several times I've tried to learn to use a computer and each time I gave up in the end, for it is not really very user-friendly. I was afraid of all mechanical devices, afraid of the keyboard and the mouse with its jumpy cursor. I was consoled by the fact that my colleague, Bai Yansong, another prime time TV host, also wrote his scripts by hand. He told me that feeling the point of the pen touching the surface of the paper gave him a kind of pleasure. I had the same feeling and found it a good excuse not to use a computer. By 1999, however, I no longer felt this attitude was justified. One day I went to my supervisor's home to hand in an article which was hand-written and a little sloppily done. Hearing my apology, the wife of my supervisor said, "It doesn't matter. I can type it out on my computer."
"You can use a computer?"
"Sure. I learned to use it when I was 70."
I was so surprised that I wasn't able to utter a single word. Once out of their flat, I made up my mind for the one-hundredth time to start learning to use a computer. I still had Bai Yansong to keep me company, but once he started learning to use the computer, he would pick it up very fast and then I would be really isolated, wouldn't I?
