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英语课
By Paul Sisco
Washington
26 September 2007
 

Nicholas Negroponte is the founding director of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  And he is chairman of a nonprofit organization aiming to provide inexpensive computers to children in the developing world. But perhaps more than anything else, Nicholas Negroponte is a determined 1 optimist 2.  VOA's Paul Sisco has more.


Nicholas Negroponte has a grand vision for the future. Give all the world's children a laptop computer, Internet access, and in 10 years. "Poverty will be eliminated, and there will be world peace," he adds.


Negroponte chairs a nonprofit organization called One Laptop Per Child. It aims to educate the world's poorest children with these durable 3 low-cost, energy efficient laptops.


Fortune Magazine's David Kirkpatrick says, "It really is the first time that anybody has built a machine specifically for poor kids in quantity."


Production costs of the so called $100 laptops are actually around $188.  And for two weeks in November, North Americans will be able to buy two for about $400. The plan announced earlier this week is called "Give One Get One." For every laptop bought, one is shipped to a child in the developing world.  The buyer gets a $200 tax deduction 4. The computers can be hand cranked and charged with solar power. That led one boy in a focus group to say they even prevent global warming. 


(Children)
'You can use it for your homework.'
'You can do kid stuff on it.'
'And I can pick it up. See??'


Nicholas Negroponte added, "If you think of it as a laptop, it can be viewed as a luxury.  If you think of it as education, it's not a luxury."


Several governments have shown interest in the computers. Negroponte says he believes the new marketing 5 effort will prompt those governments to buy the computers.




adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
n.乐观的人,乐观主义者
  • We are optimist and realist.我们是乐观主义者,又是现实主义者。
  • Peter,ever the optimist,said things were bound to improve.一向乐观的皮特说,事情必定是会好转的。
adj.持久的,耐久的
  • This raincoat is made of very durable material.这件雨衣是用非常耐用的料子做的。
  • They frequently require more major durable purchases.他们经常需要购买耐用消费品。
n.减除,扣除,减除额;推论,推理,演绎
  • No deduction in pay is made for absence due to illness.因病请假不扣工资。
  • His deduction led him to the correct conclusion.他的推断使他得出正确的结论。
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
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adopts
air and water controller
alwa
anti-bias
appui
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
balonium
be sour on
Bel Air
blue flsh oil
boorman
Bromus pectinatus
budding potential
bullous ichthyosiform hyperkeratosis
carboxyhaemoglobin
catlap
cofad (computerized facilities design)
come under the yoke
composite equation
connected state
Connector.
Corpus tibiae
daltonia angustifolia gemmiphylla
deficiency-heat
diacetyl acetic ester
discount preference ratio
domestic hot-water
Dorito syndrome
dote on sb
drive the nail
dromaeognathus
energy resolving rate of detector
epitaxial diode
fatigue theory
fearsomer
ferripyrophyllite
foche
focusing block
forestiera neomexicanas
galvanized angle iron
Glory of Russia, Cape
goedkenite
greenbelts
hashmark
Hondurean
hybrid magnet
jerryd
jump address register
leucodon sinensis
link diagram
Many a little makes a mickle.
marketing for libraries
mayalls
mechanical radiator
metallic manometer
metallic paints
neutron activation method
non specific
non-uniform rational B-spline
nonpatentable
O-Bon
outsize
Pariahdom
party-poppers
passed around
permissible loss
pie carts
piki
prater
Radlett
rami volaris profundus
raspberry juice
receptacle trough
reinforced stulls
retrace driven deflection circuit
rough-housed
row crop shield
saw tooth antenna
self-depreciatory
set of passes
signed binary
simple flower
sisko
strepens
structural assembly
supersonictweeter
sysgenia
telegraph lever
tensile
thermal spectrum calculation
touch her
tuned-anode tuned-grid oscillator
type of variable
UKNDL (United Kingdom Nuclear Data Library)
undercover
unhip
unsorted egg
upspearing
using frequency
vivacest
war grave
well-abused