《英语口语词汇》word版.doc

Words and Their Stories: Computer TermsComputer technology has become a major part of peoples lives. This technology has its own special words. One example is the word mouse. A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields. It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer, or cursor, on the computer screen.计算机科技已经成为人们生活的重要一部分。这门科技有着自己的专用词汇，例如“mouse（鼠标）”，电脑中的“mouse”不是指生活在建筑或者田野中的动物，它是一种在平面上移动的小设备，你可以用它移动电脑屏幕上的指针或者光标。Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early nineteen-sixties. The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.计算机专家 Douglas Engelbart 在1960年代初期想出了鼠标的主意，第一个鼠标是一块雕刻的木头，下面有两个金属轮子。之所以叫做“mouse”，是因为它在一端有一个尾巴。这个尾巴是将鼠标和电脑连起来的一条线。Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.使用一台电脑需要接受一些训练。这方面的专家常常被称为是“hackers（黑客）”。黑客常常指使用某一电脑语言写程序的人。但是黑客也常用来描述一个想要从电脑系统中偷取信息的人。Another well known computer word is Google, spelled g-o-o-g-l-e. It is the name of a popular “search engine” for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol, spelled g-o-o-g-o-l, is an extremely large number. It is the number one followed by one-hundred zeros.还有一个广为人知的电脑词汇是“Google”，这是一个流行的互联网“搜索引擎”的名字。人们使用该搜索引擎在互联网上寻找任何信息。该公司的创始人取名为“Google”是因为在数学领域“googol”表示一个非常大的数字，“1”后面跟100个“0”。When you “Google” a subject, you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to Google their friends or themselves to see how many times their name appears on the Internet.当你“Google”一个问题时，你可以得到大量的信息。一些人常常 Google 他们朋友或者自己，想要看看他们的名字在互联网上出现多少次。If you Google someone, you might find that persons name on a blog. A blog is the shortened name for a Web log. A blog is a personal Web page. It may contain stories, comments, pictures and links to other Web sites. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.如果你 Google 了一个人名，你可能会在一个“blog（博客）”上看到那个人的名字。“blog”是“Web log”的缩写，指个人网页，可能包含文章、评论、图片以及指向其它网站的链接。Blogs are not the same as spam. Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox. The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, “Monty Pythons Flying Circus.” Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called SPAM. Every time the friends try to speak, another group of people starts singing the word SPAM very loudly. This interferes with the friends discussion just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Inter