Nothing cool about Net bunks 1

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A Net cafe where you sit in a cozy chair, chat online and play World of Warcraft? cool. A Manga longe where you can pick your favorite books? Fancy. But for a new underclass in Japan, there's nothing coll or fancy about it.

 

A growing number of Japanese workers can no longer afford homes of their own. Instead of sleeping on the streets, they spend the night in Internet cafes.

 

Eddie Tanaka works on a Tokyo building site. After a long day's work, he goes to Manga Square, a 24-hour Internet cafe in Tokyo. There he sleeps in an old fake-leather chair in a stuffy booth not much bigger than a toilet cubicle.

 

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Like many others, this Internet cafe is open 24 hours a day.

 

 

短语学习：

 

Net/Internet cafe 网吧

 

sit in a cozy chair 坐在舒适的椅子上

 

chat online 网上聊天

 

manga lounge 漫画休息室

 

a growing number of people 越来越多的人

 

can no longer 再也不能

 

afford homes of one's own 住得起自己的房子

 

sleep on the streets 睡在大街上

 

building/construction site 建筑工地

 

a long day's work 一天漫长的工作

 

a 24-hour Internet cafe 24小时营业的网吧

 

a stuffy booth 空气污浊的小隔间

 

toilet cubicle 厕所的隔间

 

 

单词学习

 

cozy adj. 舒适的，安逸的

 

manga n. 日本漫画

 

underclass n. 下层阶级

 

stuffy adj. 闷热的，不通气的

 

booth n. 小隔间

 

cubicle n. 小隔间

 

online adj. <计>在线的

 

lounge n.（旅馆等的）休息室

 

afford v. 买得起，负担得起

 

Tokyo n. 东京

 

fake adj. 假的

 

leather n. 皮革

 

toilet n. 厕所

 

Internet n. 互联网

 

fancy adj. 别致的，花俏的