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To be wired. Well, if you're talking about electricity that's not surprising I suppose, wires join electrical things.
“To be wired”。如果你在谈论的是电学，那么我想这个短语就不算陌生，电线是用来连接电器设备的。
But people being wired? If I say to you "are you wired?" or you say to me, "yes, you're wired"?
但是人要是being wired呢？比如我对你说“are you wired”，或者是你对我说“yes, you're wired”呢？
It's another one of those descriptive words that came in in the 1990s, based on technology.
这是另外一个描述性词语，来源于技术用语，出现于二十世纪九十年代。
It really was referring to the I.T. world, the world where computers connect to the internet,
当时这个词确实是和IT界（电脑连接到互联网）有关，
and because your computer was now wired in through a cable into a telephone line,
因为你的电脑是通过一条电缆和电话线路相连接
people were said to be 'wired' meaning you are connected to the internet.
所以当人们说'wired'的时候，意思就是说你连接上了互联网。