时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语科技新闻


英语课
A British firm has developed a new product to help us save money. The product is a wristband that gives us an electric shock if we spend too much money. The wristband is called Pavlok. It is linked to our bank account 2. It knows how much money we have in the bank. If we go shopping and there is not enough money in our bank account, the wristband delivers a 255-volt electric shock to our wrist 1. This warns 3 us not to overspend. The company is called Intelligent Environments. It wants to work with banks to help customers with their money. So far, no banks in Britain have said they would offer the Pavlok to their customers. They could start doing this in the future.
 
The Pavlok wristband is part of the Internet of Things. This is the idea that everything in our life will be connected to the Internet. The CEO of Intelligent Environments, David Webber, said people liked the idea of the Pavlok. Shoppers would rather get a small electric shock in the store from the wristband than get a big shock later when they see their credit 4 card bill. Mr Webber said the Pavlok would be great for people who cannot stop spending because they have no willpower or their willpower is weak. He added 5 that many young people suffer from the "ostrich 6 effect". This is when people stick their heads in the sand and buy things rather than look at how much money they have in their bank.
 

1 wrist
n.手腕,腕关节
  • They took her by the wrist.他们握住她的手腕。
  • He received a bullet in the wrist.他手腕上中了一弹。
2 account
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
3 warns
v.警告( warn的第三人称单数 );提醒;告诫;预先通知
  • He warns that there are some important safety rules for paragliding. 他提醒说滑翔运动里有一些非常重要的安全规则。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
  • Cancer expert Barrie Cassileth warns that alternative treatments may pose serious dangers. 癌症专家巴瑞 - 卡西莱斯警告,一些替代性的治疗方法可能导致严重的危险。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 癌症与艾滋病
4 credit
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
5 added
adj.更多的,附加的,额外的
  • They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
  • The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。
6 ostrich
n.鸵鸟
  • Ostrich is the fastest animal on two legs.驼鸟是双腿跑得最快的动物。
  • The ostrich indeed inhabits continents.鸵鸟确实是生活在大陆上的。
学英语单词
acroamatic
Amino-phylline
anon
atramental
back waters
batch sedimentation settling test
bluisher
bound labour
bourbince (la bourbince riviere)
breaking down shovel
buna 32
cancellation of a contract
capital loan
carburetor adapter
chiaroseuro
come in for
creashy peat
cyanophores
d flip-flop
Daletī
delightedness
deniggerizes
Dennison early waterproof case
diastereoisomeride
diction
discouraged workers
drill stem
Faded Giants
fluorscopy
Fraenitzel accentuated
FRCM
fruit salts
gloeosporium laeticolor berkeley
glycerita
grain storage equipment
greenlighting
Groenendijk
guardian's allowance
guardies
hot-strip reels
hydrocarbon wax
hymenitis
in letter and in spirit
inoculator
Kefamenanu
Lampkin oscillator
logical file space
Macaca rhesus
magnesium lactophosphate
major node
Manila Bay, Battle of
mediterranea
meta-ankoleite
modern services
montets
number of track-lines
officeseekers
Orava
parapercis pulchella
pectoral qi
pelvicachromiss
phase-detecting
pinion rear bearing
pjc
plames
plumule sheath
potassium-ion density dolorimeter
prawn crackers
principle of proximity
prolatation
proximal stimulus
pugets
Qatari
quadratic group
rbm downscale alarm
recontesting
right-angularly
rival business firms
self-balancing strain gauge
self-worth
set sames
singer-songwriter
spend itself
spogolite
storage area management
sub-coating
sucking blood
superb lily
synaxarion
Sölden
tawdries
tholeiitic series
tower of winds
tractor protection valve
trows
uricoteliC metabolism
water-curing
willerbies
with half a heart
yants
Yelshanka