So far I am yet to be tempted(被诱惑) into purchasing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses. To a certain extent this is a function of possessing a large, misshapen(畸形的，变形的) and comically convex(凸出的) head upon which no pair of sunglasses has ever looked remotely appropriate. Nor am I one of those consumers who professes(自称，声称) to be “really into(非常喜欢，热衷于) gadgets”, a preference I’ve always found weirdly unspecific. It’s subtly telling when people claim to be into “gadgets”, because they’re never talking about, say, a tin opener. What they really mean is something gimmicky(花哨的，华而不实的) and expensive that almost certainly requires the services of a datacentre and enough water to irrigate Kent(肯特郡（英格兰东南部）).
到目前为止，我还没有被诱惑去买一副Ray-Ban Meta眼镜。在某种程度上，这是因为我的头又大又畸形，还滑稽地凸出，任何太阳镜戴上去都从未显得合适过。我也不是那种自称“真的很喜欢小玩意”的消费者，我一直觉得这种偏好奇怪地含糊不清。当人们声称喜欢“小玩意”时，这很能说明问题，因为他们从来不是指开罐器之类的东西。他们真正的意思是某种花哨又昂贵的东西，几乎肯定需要数据中心的服务和足够灌溉肯特郡的水。
And even if I were to surmount(克服，越过) these two obstacles, you then get into the ethics of the thing. I’m nobody’s idea of(绝不是……的人) a PR expert, but if your shiny new product keeps requiring patches and updates to prevent people from using it to do degenerate(堕落的，下流的) things to women, perhaps it might be worth walking it back(撤回，收回) to the research and development stage.
即使我能克服这两个障碍，接下来还要考虑这件事的伦理问题。我绝不是公关专家，但如果你闪亮的新产品不断需要补丁和更新来防止人们用它对女性做下流的事，那么也许值得把它退回研发阶段。
Of course, Meta has no intention of doing anything quite so dignified(体面的，有尊严的) or responsible as that. The prospect that users of its new glasses might wish to film people covertly(秘密地，隐蔽地) and without consent appears not to have occurred to(被想到，浮现于脑海) one of the world’s leading tech companies. Nor the possibility that owners might try to disable or cover up the little LED that displays when the camera is recording. Instead, the company has embarked on(开始，着手) a publicity blitz(闪电战，突击行动), reassuring us all that our privacy is, if not quite their number one priority, then certainly there or thereabouts(差不多，八九不离十).
当然，Meta无意做任何如此体面或负责任的事。其新眼镜的用户可能希望偷偷拍摄他人且未经同意，这一前景似乎从未出现在这家全球领先科技公司的脑海中。也没有想到用户可能会试图禁用或遮盖那个在摄像头录制时亮起的小LED灯。相反，该公司发起了一场公关闪电战，向我们所有人保证，我们的隐私即使不是他们的头等大事，也肯定八九不离十。