Unit 4- What is a processor.docVIP

目 录 一、译者简介…………………………………………………………………………2 二、课文翻译…………………………………………………………………………3 三、注释………………………………………………………………………………6 四、课后答案…………………………………………………………………………7 一、译者简介 姓名 陈佳静 性别 女 照片 班级 09英语3班 学号 注：负责本文第二三部分 姓名 陈舒 性别 女 照片 班级 09英语3班 学号 注：负责本文的第四部分 Unit 4 二、课文翻译 A processor is a functional unit that interprets and carries out instructions.【1】 Every processor comes with a unique set of operations such as ADD, STORE, or LOAD that represent the processor’s instruction set. Computer designers are fond of calling their computer machines, so the instruction set is sometimes referred to as machine instructions and the binary language in which they are written is called machine language! You should not confuse the processor’s instruction set with the instructions found in high-level programming language, such as BASIC or PASCAL. 处理器是一个翻译和执行指令的控制单元。每一个处理器都具有一套专门的操作集，例如“加”、“存贮”或“下载”等，代表着这个处理器的指令集。计算机设计师们喜欢把计算机叫做机器，所以指令集有时叫做机器指令，写指令集所用的二进制码叫做机器语言。这样，你就不会混淆处理器的指令集和在高级编程语言如BASIC或者PASCAL中的指令了。 An instruction is made up of operations that specify the function to be performed and operands that the data to be operation of adding two numbers【2】, it must know (1) what the numbers are and (2) where the two numbers are. When the two numbers are stored in the computer’s memory, they have an address to indicate where they are, so if an operand refers to data in the computer’s memory it is called an address. The processor’s job is to retrieve instructions and operands from memory and to perform each operation. Having done that, it signals memory to send it the next instruction. 指令是由规定即将执行的操作和两个数字相加的数字运算体组成。那么它必须知道两件事, (1) 是哪两个数字，(2)这两个数字在哪。如果这两个数字式存储在计算机存储器中的话，那么就一定有一个地址来指明它们在哪。因此，当运算体的对象是储存在计算机的存储器中的数据，那么它会就被称为地址。而处理器的任务就是从存储器中获取指令和运算体，并且执行每一项操作。完成之后，它就会指示存储器发送下一个指令。 This step-by-step operation is repeated over and over again at awesome speed. A timer called clock released precisely timed electrical signals that provide a regular pulse for the processor’s work. The term