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"The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time." 　　The speaker contends that technology's primary goal should be to increase our efficiency for the purpose of affording us more leisure time. I concede that technology has enhanced our efficiency as we go about our everyday lives. Productivity software helps us plan and coordinate projects; intranets, the Internet, and satellite technology make us more efficient messengers; and technology even helps us prepare our food and access entertainment more efficiently. Beyond this concession, however, I find the speaker's contention indefensible from both an empirical and a normative standpoint.

　　注意这种新结构：运用了大量的事实作出对原文观点的让步性同意，但是在最后还是有所创新的提出自己的读到见解。这种开头给人一种很爽的感觉——have forcibly posed your viewpoints.让我们记住：The speaker contends that……I concede that……Beyond this concession, however, I find the speaker's contention indefensible from both an empirical and a normative standpoint.

　　精华：注意breed的含意：generate, bring in可以说，这就是自己的见解，这就是the power ofshavingsbeen thinking。作者一反常规，提出advanced technology在给人类带来这样那样的方便的同时，反而在蚕食人的time and energy。

　　确实精彩！读者也会不得不承认technology has resulted in short, health, safety, education, and freedom——and not leisure, the final destination.

　　In sum, I find indefensible the speaker's suggestion that technology's value lies chiefly in the efficiency and resulting leisure time it can afford us. The suggestion runs contrary to the overwhelming evidence that technology diminishes leisure time, and it wrongly places leisure ahead of goals such as health, safety, education, and freedom as technology's ultimate aims.

　　精华：……value lies chiefly in……The suggestion runs contrary to the overwhelming evidence that……and it wrongly places……ahead of

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