英语四级考试相关练习题

英语四级考试相关练习题

LORNE GLADSTONE of Toronto is 58, but prudently pondering how to bequeath his digital property. Doing the paperwork after his parents death was a challenge. When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is, he says. As a software developer, his virtual assets are both valuable and vital to his business. That exemplifies a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and sentimental value. But testamentary laws offer muddled and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting them.

prudently adv. 谨慎地;慎重地

ponder v. 仔细考虑;衡量

bequeath v. 遗赠;把遗赠给;把传下去

virtual asset 虚拟资产

exemplify v. 例证;举例说明

testamentary law 遗嘱法

Digital assets may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over 9 billion . A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5,000 yuan of digital property. And value does not lie only in money. Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries, says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital estates.

social-media account 社交网络账号