What makes the world becomes smaller? Some inventions. It began in the llth century,but it has developed greatly in the last century. Let’s take a look at the five top inventions.
Movable Type :By using Movable Type,books could be printed cheaply and easily.Bi Sheng invented Movable Type in the llth century.
Telephone:The inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in 1876. “Mr.Watson,come here.I want you, ”he said to his assistant over the phone line.And with those famous words,the world was about to get much smaller.
Airplane:The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903.Air travel has made the faraway places suddenly become a lot closer.
Satellites:The Soviet Union sent up the world’s first satellite in 1957.This began the Space Age.Satellites have helped scientists study the earth..Much of our knowledge of the world has come from the information recorded by satellites.
Internet:When the Internet was created in 1969,only a few people knew about it.But more than 650 million people in the world use it now.The Internet has made information anything easy to get.
首先谢谢你的帮助,不过这句话我还是有点不太明白是什么意思,And with those famous words,the world was about to get much smaller.你的翻译是,伴随着那些显眼的新词,世界将变得越来越小
追答就是伴随着“电话”“因特网”这些新词或者新事物的出现,世界变得越来越小
(原来人们不知“手机”“因特网”为何物?)