1．The concept of information superhighway has been around for more than a decade, but until 1993 it was merely a technological speculation.
信息高速公路的概念 10 年前就被提出过，可是在 1993 年前，信息高速公路还只是停留在研究其技术上的可行性这一阶段。
2．Today information superhighway has become an everyday topic and is making its entry into our lives.
今天信息高速公路已经成为了一个日常话题并正逐渐走入我们的生活。
3．Information superhighway is an unprecedented nationwide, or worldwide, electronic communications network that connects everyone to everyone else, and provides just about any sort of electronic communication imaginable.
信息高速公路是一个空前的全国范围的，或者说世界范围的，电子通讯网 络，它将人和人之间联系起来，并提供几乎任何一种您所能想象到的电子通 讯手段。
4．Hook up your computer to the Internet and you are on your information superhighway.
只需将你的电脑连接到国际互联网，你就会在信息高速公路上驰骋。
5．The purpose of information superhighway is to provide remote electronic banking, schooling, shopping, taxpaying, game playing, video conferencing, movie ordering, medical diagnosing, etc.
信息高速公路旨在提供远程电子服务，如远程电子存款、远程电子教育、远 程电子购物、远程电子纳税、远程电子游戏、远程电子可是会议、远程电子 租片、远程电子疗诊等等。
6．Information superhighway can make many things you wan to do easier and more convenient.
信息高速公路能使您所要做的许多事情变得轻松简便。
7．For example, instead of calling your friends one by one to tell them the party is canceled, you’ll simply send a single e-mail message to everyone at once.
譬如说，您打算取消聚会，您可不必一一打电话通知每个朋友，您只需在电 脑上同时给他们发一个电子信函即可。
8．And if you live in a rural area far from a major hospital, telemedicine may allow a specialist in London to diagnose you without you having to travel farther than to your local internist’s clinic.
如果您住在远离大医院的乡村地区，电子诊疗可以让伦敦的专家来诊断您的 病情，以免除您远道上大医院的辛劳，之后您只需要去当地医院就诊即可。
9．Information superhighway may also pull together newspaper and magazine articles from around the world on a particular topic of your own interest.
信息高速公路也可以就您所感兴趣的一个论题，在全世界范围内为您收集这 类报刊文章。
10．If you like to shop with someone who lives in another city, you may call him or her and then do home shopping together for an hour or two.
如果你想和住在另一城市的某个人一起购物，你可以打电话给他或她然后一 起进行 1 到 2 小时的不出门购物。
11．Whether you like it or not, information superhighway will change the way we live.
无论您的意愿如何，信息高速公路将会改变我们的生活方式。
