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How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries?

这是2021高考英语真题卷全国乙卷（Ⅰ卷）阅读理解B中的句子。请分析 go the way of是什么用法？

原题全文如下：

When almost everyone has a mobile phone, why are more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline?

These days you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over the age of 15 who doesn’t own a mobile phone. In fact plenty of younger kids have one in their pocket. Practically everyone can make and receive calls anywhere, anytime.

Still, 55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just over a quarter (29%) rely only on their smartphones, according to a survey. Of those Australians who still have a landline, a third concede that it’s not really necessary and they’re keeping it as a security blanket—19 percent say they never use it while a further 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category.

More than half of Australian homes are still choosing to stick with their home phone. Age is naturally a factor (因素)—only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who’ve perhaps had the same home number for 50 years. Age isn’t the only factor; I’d say it’s also to do with the makeup of your household.

Generation Xers with young families, like my wife and I, can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than providing a mobile phone for every family member. That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).

How attached are you to your landline? How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries?

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最佳答案 2021-07-06 20:55

这个问题我在前面一个问题分析过（https://www.cpsenglish.com/question/51000），由于当时网友把这个问题作为重点提出，所以只是提及了一下，下面再补充分析：

▲go the way of 后接过时、淘汰、灭绝的事物或动物时，指“走……最终过时、淘汰、灭绝的老路”，即“像……一样最终会过时、淘汰、灭绝”，高考题中的go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries 就属此类用法，在现代社会，已基本没有 gas street lamps（煤气路灯）and morning milk deliveries（早晨送牛奶）了，所以原句的意思是：

How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries? 还要过多久它们（根据前文指“电话座机”）才会像煤气路灯以及早晨送牛奶那样最终消失呢？

▲比如 floppy disc（软盘，软磁盘）这个东西，记得我在开始（1995年左右）使用电脑的时候就用过它，现在许多年轻人可能都没有见过，因为已早就淘汰了。软盘是较早的一种计算机上使用的存储介质，现在已基本上被U盘所取代了。软盘的尺寸有两种，即3.5英寸和5.25英寸，形似正方形。如下图：

如果你了解上面的背景，再来看下面的句子，就容易理解了：

The floppy disc has gone the way of the horse and buggy. 软盘已像马车一样淘汰了。（摘自Richard A. Spears, Ph.D. 的 McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs）

▲类似的表达还有go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dinosaur 等，其中的动物 dodo（渡渡鸟）和 dinosaur（恐龙）都已灭绝，所以有时人们会说：

go the way of the dinosaur 像恐龙一样灭绝（出自陆谷孙《英汉大词典》）