专业英语 Unit1 My Computer.docVIP

Unit 1 My Computer（35） Section A Computer Overview 一、课文讲解 overview n. 纵览,总的看法 give a broad overview of the present situation 对当前形势作全面纵览 review 复习功课,写评论 review the situation观察形势 review last weeks lessons复习上周的功课 review the past回顾过去 review for a magazine为一本杂志写评论 viewpoint n.观点 1. 动词---名词的转化 计算机是一种电子设备，它能接收一套指令或一个程序，然后通过对数值数据进行计算或者对其他形式的信息进行处理来执行该程序。 电子设备--- an electronic device 一套指令--- receive a set of instructions 执行---perform/carry out 对数值数据进行运算--- performing calculations on numerical data 对其他形式的信息进行处理 manipulating other forms of information manipulate v.操作，处理 handle deal with operate work A computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions, or program, and then carry out this program by performing calculations on numerical data or by manipulating other forms of information. 2. except for--翻译 The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. come about--发生,产生 How did it come about? 那事是怎么发生的? come and go---来来去去；变来变去；转瞬消失 how come---怎么 except for---除...之外, 只是 except that---除了, 只是 I would come except it rains. 翻译：要是不下雨, 我就来。 翻译： 如果没有计算机的发展，现代的高科技世界是不可能产生的。 3.使用名词短语--- find uses Different types and sizes of computer find uses throughout society in the storage and handling of data, from secret governmental files to banking transactions to private household accounts. throughout society---在整个社会 find uses in the storage and handling of data 在数据的存储和处理中很有用处。 from...to...to banking transaction---银行交易 transacton---交易，业务 cash transaction---现金交易 credit transaction---赊购交易 agency transaction---委托交易 commodity[???????????] transaction---商品交易 private household accounts---私人家庭账目 翻译： 在整个社会，不同型号和不同大小的计算机被用于存储和处理各种数据，从政府保密文件、银行交易到私人家庭账目。 find great satisfaction in 在...中得到很大满足 find money for a plan 为一项计划筹措经费 find sb. guilty 断定某人有罪 find the cubic root of 求...的立方根 Water finds its own level. 水往低处流。 A bomb found him. 炸弹