这些预言可能使得新闻出版业忧心忡忡。英国国内报纸发行量普遍下滑。日本各大主流报纸债台高筑。美国的报纸发行总量和广告收入双双下降，多家报纸停止印刷。
This kind of prediction may worry those in print news business. In the U.K., the circulations of national newspapers are declining. Major Japanese newspapers have gone into debt. In the U.S., declining circulations and ad revenues have forced several newspapers to stop printing paper editions.

传媒大亨默多克认为，未来媒体势必依靠网络互动。将来，电子报可以直接通过网络到达用户的手持终端上。读者将与记者和编辑深入交流。信息传播速度更快捷。
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch thinks the future of media relies on interaction through the Internet. In the future, digital newspapers will be sent to portal web terminals through wirelessly. Readers can discuss issues with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.

石油消失 Oil to run out

2009年8月，国际能源署首席经济学家法蒂赫•比罗尔表示，全球石油枯竭速度已超出预期，未来5年全球可能面临石油供应紧缩的局面。
In August 2009, Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, said that oil is running out faster than expected and that the world will likely feel the tightness in supply in the next five years.

科学家已经找到了石油的替代品，包括煤、天然气、太阳能、核能甚至是水。仅海底“可燃冰”就够人类使用1000年。
Scientists have found substitutes for oil as fuel. Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can replace oil as sources of energy. Flammable ice reserves alone can support humans for the next 1,000 years.

但受石油枯竭影响最大的是石化行业。现存以石油为原料的产品超过5000种，石化行业对人类生活具有广大且深远的影响。一旦该行业受到石油的影响，势必波及社会生活的方方面面。
But if oil runs out, the petrochemical industry will suffer the most. More than 5,000 products are made with oil, and the industry exerts a vast and profound influence on people’s lives. If it is affected by oil, the impacts will be relayed to society as well.

近视眼镜将退出视野 Glasses to disappear

近视遗传率高达89%，也就是说近视主要由基因决定。科学家们已找到诱发近视的基因，并通过对此基因的控制来治疗近视。
The heritability of myopia is as high as 89 percent, indicating that myopia is determined by genetics. Scientists have found the genes for myopia and by controlling them, may be able to cure myopia.

相关词汇

circulation 发行量
 
decontaminate 净化,排除污染
 
deodorize 除臭
 
filter 过滤
 
heritability 遗传可能性
 
incinerate 焚烧(废物)
 
myopia 近视
 
profound 深远的，巨大的
 
scenario 推测
 
substitute 替代物，代用品

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