公共英語(yǔ)等級考試三級學(xué)習筆記范文
Dialogues /monologues:
1、 Are you being attended to, Miss?
本句的意思是：小姐，有人在為您服務(wù)嗎?訢商場(chǎng)eA2飯店中，to attend to sb.的意思是，招呼、照顧、協(xié)助某位顧客。
這句話(huà)用主動(dòng)語(yǔ)氣可以說(shuō)成：
Is anybody attending to you, Miss?
2、 You may divide cyber retailers into three subsets and attack each with a different strategy.
本句的意思是：您可以將網(wǎng)上零售商分成三個(gè)子類(lèi)，用不同的戰略對付他們。
注意：divide into：分成
Passage:
Buying computer and software
At first, I was reluctant to buy computer products completely online. Many of the online computer stores used to sell exclusively through printed catalogs, addressing the technically astute. I found those printed catalogs intimidating and confusing. And preferred to go to a physical store, where knowledgeable sales people could guide me through the maze of choices, explaining the benefits and risks and costs.
When egghead, the prominent software retailer, closed its physical stores and decided to operate solely online, I was shocked and disappointed, as I had shopped hardware or software regularly at the local egghead store and depended on expertise, judgment and advice from their sales people. Also, I greatly valued the fact that when I brought new add-ons or upgrades for my PC, I could pay to have them installed on the spot. But now I was forced to learn more about computers than I ever expected to learn. As it turns out, that’s probably a good thing for me and for my budget.
Today, the computer industry is a commodity, standards-driven marketplace. Computer “manufactures” are really just assembles. They buy processors from one, software, disks, memories, from other sources, and assemble them into systems. The competition is fierce and the profit margins are slim. In terms of the basic specs—speed, memory, and storage—what we now define as a “complete system” for home use would have made a wealthy technical guru tremble with jealousy ten years ago.
Fifteen years ago, is seemed inconceivable that an ordinary individual would ever need a 100 MHZ machine with 1 gigabyte of disk storage space. Yet, with the predictable improvement of technology, the speed of commercially available processors doubles about every 18 months according to a rule of thumb (known as “Moore’s law”). While at some point, technology must meet barriers that will slow the pace of change, the computer industry has been adapting at this incredibly rapid rate for more than two decades now, with great regularity. And the software industry has been keeping in lock step with these hardware developments by making each new version of the common applications that people depend upon more and more complex and bulky, requesting the full capacity of the latest and greatest hardware. I believe this software inflation results from the consequences of human nature—software expands to fill the capacity available for it.
Basically, “Moore’s law” plus software inflation mean today’s computer system will not last. And the new versions of software will make your equipment seem painfully slow in two years, and obsolete in four. To stay compatible with other people with whom you have to share files, you should invest time learning about these add-ons gadgets, etc. to upgrade your system. Thus you can make full use of the shopping resources on the Internet, and save again and again.
參考譯文:
購買(mǎi)電腦和軟件
剛開(kāi)始的時(shí)候，我不太情愿完全依靠網(wǎng)絡(luò )購買(mǎi)電腦產(chǎn)品。許多網(wǎng)上電腦商店過(guò)去主要靠打印出來(lái)的產(chǎn)口目錄進(jìn)行銷(xiāo)售，上面清楚地寫(xiě)明了技術(shù)需求。但是我總認為那樣的產(chǎn)品目錄看起來(lái)讓人感覺(jué)有些發(fā)怵而且稀里糊涂的，所以我還是偏愛(ài)實(shí)體商店，因為那里有精通業(yè)務(wù)的銷(xiāo)售人員，他們能指引我走出迷宮做出選擇，他們還能向我解釋產(chǎn)品的優(yōu)點(diǎn)、風(fēng)險性和成本。
當著(zhù)名的軟件銷(xiāo)售商Egghead關(guān)閉實(shí)體店鋪，決定只走網(wǎng)絡(luò )運營(yíng)路線(xiàn)的時(shí)候我感覺(jué)震驚和失望。因為我總是定期到Egghead在當地的實(shí)體店鋪去購買(mǎi)軟件和硬件，仰仗那里的銷(xiāo)售人員的專(zhuān)業(yè)技能、判斷力和經(jīng)驗。還有一點(diǎn)讓我非�？粗氐氖牵好慨斘屹徺I(mǎi)新的附加軟件或是將我的個(gè)人電腦升級時(shí)，我只需付些費用就可以讓他們在現場(chǎng)給我安裝完畢。但是現在我卻被迫去了解更多的電腦知識，而我以前是不需要了解這么多的。但是后來(lái)發(fā)現，這或許對我來(lái)說(shuō)是件好事，而且節省了我的預算。
今天，計算機產(chǎn)業(yè)是一種商品，是一個(gè)以標準為市場(chǎng)導向的市場(chǎng)。計算機“制造者”們實(shí)際上只不過(guò)是組裝者。他們從某個(gè)渠道購買(mǎi)處理器，從其它渠道購買(mǎi)軟件、光盤(pán)和內存，然后將它們組裝成系統。競爭是激烈的，利潤空間也不大。從最基本的配置——速度、內存和硬盤(pán)空間——來(lái)講，我們現在所定義的家用“全套系統”足以讓十年前富有的技術(shù)權威羨慕地發(fā)顫不可。
15年以前，似乎難以想象一個(gè)普通人會(huì )需要100兆的機器和十億字節的磁盤(pán)存儲空間。然而，隨著(zhù)可以預見(jiàn)的技術(shù)進(jìn)步，僅憑經(jīng)驗(被稱(chēng)為“摩爾定律”)就可以推知：商用存儲器的速度每隔18個(gè)月就會(huì )成倍增長(cháng)。然而，技術(shù)必定會(huì )在某個(gè)時(shí)候遇上某種障礙，使其減緩變化的步伐。計算機產(chǎn)業(yè)在最近二十年來(lái)，一直處于令人難以置信的發(fā)展速度，到現在已經(jīng)穩步發(fā)展了。軟件產(chǎn)業(yè)一直與硬件發(fā)展保持著(zhù)齊肩并進(jìn)的態(tài)勢，人們最常用的應用軟件的更新版本愈發(fā)復雜與寵大，只有用最新及功能最強大的硬件才能操作使用。我認為軟件企業(yè)的這種膨脹源于人類(lèi)的天性——軟件需要擴展以充分利用已有的空間。
從根本上來(lái)講，“摩爾”定律加上軟件膨脹就意味著(zhù)當今的計算機系統不會(huì )維持長(cháng)久。更新的軟件版本會(huì )在兩年內使你的裝備顯得速度極慢，四年以后就該徹底淘汰了。為了與和你共享文件的其他人步調保持一致，你需要花些時(shí)間了解這些附加軟件、小工具等，以便將你的計算機系統升級。因此，你可以充分利用網(wǎng)上購物資源，一遍又一遍地反復保存更新軟件和工具。
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