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 week's 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
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.
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
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? 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
2. except for--翻译
The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. 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。
? 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。
3.使用名词短语--- find uses
Different types and sizes of computer find uses
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throughout society in the storage and handling of data, from secret governmental files to banking transactions to private household accounts. 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
? 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
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。
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A bomb found him. 炸弹打中了他。 4.翻译---分析句子结构
They are essential tools in almost every field of research and applied technology, from constructing models of the universe to producing tomorrow's weather reports, and their use has in itself opened up new areas of conjecture.
在几乎每一个研究和应用技术领域，从构建宇宙模型到产生明天的气象报告，计算机无不是必要的工具，并且它们的应用本身就开辟了人们推测的新领域。(field, area) 翻译：
? from...to
? construct models of the universe 构建宇宙模型 ? new areas of conjecture---推测的新领域
conjecture---推测，猜测 (better improve) Goldbach conjecture---【数】哥德巴赫猜想
form conjectures upon 推想 make conjectures upon 推想
found a conjecture on 根据... 推测 venture a conjecture 猜猜看
? in itself---本身, 实质上, 就其本身来说 of itself---自行, 自然而然地
by itself---单独地; 孤零地; 独立地; 自动地
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5.句型选择--- make it available
数据库服务和计算机网络使各种各样的信息源可供利用。
? Database services--数据库服务 ? 计算机网络--- computer networks
? 各种各样的信息源---a great variety of information sources
翻译：
Database services and computer networks make available a great variety of information sources. 6.名词翻译为动词: invasion /invade
The same advanced techniques also make possible invasions of personal and business privacy. 翻译：
同样的先进技术也使侵犯个人隐私和商业秘密成为可能。
? 词义选择：privacy
personal and business privacy---个人隐私和商业秘密 privacy---隐私, 秘密
private--- private classroom:专用教室 --- private affair leave 事假 ? invasions---侵害, 侵犯 invade
make an invasion upon---侵入; 袭击
7.插入语、修饰语语序
The first adding machine, （a precursor of the digital computer）, was devised in 1964 by the French
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