时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第二册


英语课

Lesson67 Bill Gates
Most high school students would be delighted to be accepted by Harvard University, but Harvard had little to offer to young Bill Gates. After several semesters, he dropped out and went to work. Finally he made himself the richest man in the world.
Actually, his career started in high school where he discovered the amazing world of computers. He quickly learned the programming language called BASIC. He spent hours finding out what a computer could do. Before long, he and Paul Allen, a classmate, became local experts on computer programming.
After they graduated from high school, the friends went separate ways. Allen stayed in Seattle and Gates went to Boston to attend Harvard. At Harvard, however, Gates was not a serious student. He spent most of his time in the university computer centre.
The two young men decided 1 to form a small company in 1975.
They called it Microsoft. They let the computer company license 2 their operating system for $30 per computer. In their first year, they earned $16,000. This was enough to convince Gates to quit Harvard and work full-time 3
Microsoft became a public company in 1981. The company grew quickly and Gates became very rich. Gates may have slowed down a little, but he still works hard to stay ahead of computer hardware, creating operating systems for computers that are not yet in the stores.


semester 学期(美国英语)
drop out 辍学
career ? 事业
programming 编程
operating system 操作系统
convince 说服
quit ? 放弃


比尔•盖茨
若能被哈佛录取,大部分的高中学生都会很高兴,但是哈佛却没有给小比尔•盖茨多少。几个学期后,他辍学了,出去工作。最终他使自己成为了世界上最富裕的人。
事实上,他的事业从高中时就开始了,那时他发现了令人着迷的电脑世界。他很快学会了叫做BASIC的编程语言。他花费很多时间去探究计算机能做些什么。不久以后,他和他的一个同班同学保罗•爱伦就开始成为当地电脑编程的专家。
高中毕业后,这对朋友走上了不同的道路。爱伦呆在西雅图而盖茨去了波士顿读哈佛。然而在哈佛,盖茨并不是一个认真的学生。他将绝大多数的时间花在了学校计算机中心里。
1975年这两个年轻人决定开一个小公司。他们将它叫做微软。他们以每台计算机30美元的价格向电脑厂商授权他们的操作系统。第一年他们赚了16 000美元。这足以说服盖茨放弃哈佛的学业去开始全职工作。
1981年微软成为了一家上市公司。公司发展很快,盖茨变的非常富有。盖茨可能已经放慢了脚步,但他仍努力工作以保持领先于电脑硬件的发展,开发市场上还没有的电脑操作系统。



1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
3 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
学英语单词
afternote
aniline raffinate
Archimedes number
arthur range
automatic error correction system
Azumaya-san
case band
casing grade
cathode-ray direction finder
Central Criminal Court
channel lights
claustrophobe
clay hd.
Cockfosters
compressive ratio in cylinder
computer module
continuous measuring hygrometer
cracks a book
cross-cuts
data-sharing group
decorporate
didley bow
die pad
dogaressa
Estância Velha
fifteener
fluttering about
French braiding
godfathered
goodhead
gradinos
grounded cathode amplifer
gymnemate
heavy-oil heater
hercinothrips femoralis
Hohenhaslach
honey granulation
imbosk
implementation evaluation
incisal reduction
inclined tube micromanometer
Kamensk
kiln shell
knoweth
Krasninskiy Rayon
lamonte
lightning ball
lipofuscin granule
longdal log washer
Longparish
lxxxviiier
made no difference to
mahahual
mesiobuccal root
missile engine case
Moheda
moving coil
multi-gradient magnetic separator
needle litter
network of fault
nonfantasy
nonreturn-to-zero signal
ophthalmofundoscop
oyster shooter
parasitic diptera
pile (reactor)
prestructured
radial momentum
relative retention volume
relocation table
reserve for retirement of sinking fund bonds
rewiping
riverish
rubber tubing
sandringham
sandwich braze
secondary in
show date
sleep pill
sliding by
snail-horn
soil fluction
Souphanouvong
stereochemical structure
Strong form of the EMT
systematic method
threatened rupture of uterus
tiranas
transmit-recive device
twoplayer
unentertaining
Urochorda
vent wax
vergepunched card
vortex gate
vulnerates
West Saxon
wet cleaning method
wood tripod dam
worst cold case
xylenesulfonyl chloride
zurick