Today we fret about the isolating culture of smartphone-staring and selfie-vanity, but already in 1939 there was that lady regretting how, when all her street got wireless, it lost the neighbourly habit of "talking on the brush handle".
如今我们担忧的是智能手机带来的孤立文化以及自拍的虚荣心态，但早在1939年，就有一位女士后悔地说，当她所在的街区都装上了收音机后，人们就失去了在院子里拿着扫帚柄聊天的邻里习惯。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。