新突破大学英语 综合教程1 Unit 8 Modern Technology.pptVIP

a string of 一系列；一串的；一串 1.我们已经收到了对该节目的一连串投诉。 2.在那个转角发生了一连串的事故。。 We have had a string of complaints about the program. Practice A string of accidents happened at that corner. Back break…into 把……分成 Practice 1.玛丽将巧克力分成小块, 每人一块。 Mary broke the chocolate into pieces, one for each person. 2.玩家分成几个小组。 The players break into several teams. Back none of (三个或以上)都不 Practice 1.这些人都不会愿意为自己的行为负责。 None of these people will admit responsibility for their actions. 2.这些钢笔没有一支能用。 None of these pens works. Back Part II: Paras. 4-6 Part I: Paras. 1-3 Structure Main idea: There are limitations for search engines to find information on the Web. Main idea: As a popular search engine, Yahoo! has its strength. The World Wide Web contains millions of pages and it is growing more quickly every day. It is likely that hundreds of new pages will be added while you are reading this chapter. No one can say exactly how big the Web is at any moment, but it is probably bigger today than any library on Earth. Yahoo! —A Guide to Everything 万维网上有数以百万计的网页，并且每天还在快速增长。在你阅读本章时，万维网就有可能新增成千上万个页面。无论在任何时候都没人能够准确地说出万维网到底有多大，但它可能比地球上的任何一个图书馆都大。 译 文 Information is of no use unless you can find it. And as the Web grows, it becomes more and more difficult to find exactly what you want. One obvious answer is to let a computer do the work. There are lots of ‘search engines’ that use powerful computers and clever software to hunt on the Web. Give them a topic and they give you a list of the sites that seem to talk about it. But very often the list is still too long to be useful. 信息只有被利用才能体现价值。随着网页的增加，准确地找出你所需要的信息变得越来越困难。很明显，让电脑来做这项工作才是解决之道。许多“搜索引擎”应运而生，它们利用强大的电脑和聪明的软件在万维网上搜索。你给它们一个主题，它们就会给你一系列与此相关的网站。但是往往所列的网页太多了，好些都没什么用。 译 文 More importantly, the software does not understand what it is looking for. To a computer, the word ‘football’ does not mean anything. It is just a string of letters. A computer does not know that American football is completely diffe