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Unit 4 Network Designer ? Tim Berners-Lee This text is in the form of a biography, and biography is nonfictional literature with its subject mainly concerning the life of an individual. A biography usu. includes autobiography, recounting a person’s own history. It can be seen as a branch of history because of the materials that are collected and told; it can also be seen as a branch of imaginative literature in that it seeks to convey a sense of the individuality and significance of the subject through creative sympathetic insight. And biographical and autobiographical writing can easily pass into fiction when rational inference or conjecture passes into imaginative reconstruction or frank invention or when the biographical subject itself is wholly or partly imaginary. Language work 1. log on to the Internet ?enter identifying data, as a name or password, into a multiuser system as the Internet, so as to be able to do work with the system. (上网) The Internet is an international computer system that links both business and private users 因特网，国 际联网 c.f. log off/log out —terminate a work session on a multiuser system, or a connection to such a system. 2. launch a search engine —set a search engine in motion 启动搜索器 “launch” can be used to refer to different things e.g. to ~ a guided missile 发射导弹 to ~ a rocket to ~ an attack on the enemy 向…发动进攻 to ~ a new enterprise 创办新企业 to ~ a ship 使船下水 to ~ an aircraft carrier 使航空母舰下水 3. enquire (British spelling) inquire (American spelling) The American readers are advised to type in “enquire” instead of “inquire” Tim Berners-Lee was born in London. 4. hit —a computer term (in information retrieval 重新得到/收回) an instance of successfully locating an item of data in the memory bank of a computer 对网络的一次访问 5. unencumber 不受…所累 ① encumber (v) a)—get in the way of, hamper, be a burden to 阻碍，妨害，牵累 ~ oneself with… 使自己受…所累 He ~ed himself with unnecessary luggage on t