electronic中等

The advent of electronic publishing and authors’ need to find outlets for their papers resulted in thousands of new journals.

电子出版的出现以及作者为论文寻找发表渠道的需求，催生了数以千计的新期刊。

Your home colleagues — your family — have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.

你在家里的“同事”——你的家人——付出劳动却没有明确的回报；你得说服他们去做，如果他们是青少年，还得威胁要没收他们所有的电子设备。

Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically.

鉴于电子货币的种种优势，你也许会认为我们会很快进入一个所有支付都以电子方式完成的无现金社会。

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon “revolutionize the very [concept] of money itself,” only to [reverse] itself several years later.

例如，《商业周刊》在1975年曾预言电子支付手段很快就会“彻底变革货币这一概念本身”，结果几年后却推翻了自己的说法。

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work [against] the disappearance of the paper system.

尽管电子支付手段可能比基于纸质的支付系统更高效，但有几个因素阻碍着纸质系统的消失。

First, it is very [expensive] to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the [dominant] form of payment.

首先，要让电子货币成为主导的支付形式，就必须建立计算机、读卡器和电信网络，而这些设施的建设成本非常高昂。