时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力文摘 English Digest


英语课

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W:What’s that gadget 1 you are playing with Diarmuid?

Diarmuid: It’s my latest toy – a netbook.

W: A netbook?

Diarmuid: Yes a netbook. N.E.T.B.O.O.K. It’s like a laptop computer only even smaller.

W: What a cute little computer!I like your netbook, but I have a question about the name. Why is a computer called a book?

Diarmuid: That’s a very good question. I suppose it’s because there are lots of names for different types of computers.

W: And those names can be different between Britain and America, can’t they?Diarmuid: To an extent, yes. For example, in British English we use the word laptop. But in American English they call the same thing a notebook. So I think that the name netbook is a mix of two words – internet and notebook.

Example

A: Did you buy anything in the January sales?

B: Yes, I bought a little netbook computer. It’s really handy.

W: So a netbook then is a small computer that is used mostly for surfing the internet.

Diarmuid: I use it mostly for surfing the web and checking emails - things like that.

W: It’s incredible 2 how small computers are these days, isn’t it?

Diarmuid: It certainly is and it looks like we will soon see more tablet computers too.

netbook: 上网本

gadget: 小装置,小器具

Tablet computers 平板电脑



n.小巧的机械,精巧的装置,小玩意儿
  • This gadget isn't much good.这小机械没什么用处。
  • She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓。
adj.难以置信的,不可信的,极好的,大量的
  • Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
  • Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。
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absorption of electrons
alternate position
aluminum beads collector
aluminum silicate fiber
anode potential fall
Araouane
Arnes
array type identifier
atmolysed
azenberg
beatability
bottom set
call ... to mind
car-finance
carcinogenics
Chlormeroprin
chromenol
clitoral gland tumor
co belligerent
co-publishes
coefficient of facewidth
coelophora flavomarginata
cold-drawn steel wire for prestressed concrete
cross term
cum sluts
decoupling resistance
density perturbation
dizened
Dongola process
dormer
earth magnetic pole
East Harling
ebullition chamber
emphasize accumulation at the expense of consumption
encephalisicalis subcorticalis chronica
enchylema
Enneanectes
eshin
euhymenium
exaggerated claim
faceplate starter
farmgates
first telophase
fuel injector needle
g-r-e
gross thermal efficiency
halicampus dunckeri
hard-way
haykal
Heisenberg uncertainty relation
in use
last frost
Level-6
Lithocarpus garrettianus
mesolecithal ovum
motivational research
mottled paper
mudlavia
nassarius coronatus
neonatal screening
next-best
nonmediastinal
npn semiconductor
oleo stock
overweened
pack a punch
periodicals index
pituitary fossa (or hypophyseal fossa)
policy-capturing
preethmoid bone
professional-looking
put the blame upon someone
pyramidal garnet
real range
reinforced product
repositoria
rhaading
roller-skier
rottenberg
ryllettys
sabatrine
Scutellaria mollifolia
selective intent
serir
sky glows
sonenshein
source error
striocellularis
style theory of leadership
sydnor
team-managers
three-bar bumper
three-mode standing-wave laser
translatory resistance
tropis
tshisekedi
weight-formality
whaule eyed
woundability
wrong way around
yellow lethals
zatosetron