时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第二册


英语课

Lesson67 Bill Gates
Most high school students would be delighted to be accepted by Harvard University, but Harvard had little to offer to young Bill Gates. After several semesters, he dropped out and went to work. Finally he made himself the richest man in the world.
Actually, his career started in high school where he discovered the amazing world of computers. He quickly learned the programming language called BASIC. He spent hours finding out what a computer could do. Before long, he and Paul Allen, a classmate, became local experts on computer programming.
After they graduated from high school, the friends went separate ways. Allen stayed in Seattle and Gates went to Boston to attend Harvard. At Harvard, however, Gates was not a serious student. He spent most of his time in the university computer centre.
The two young men decided 1 to form a small company in 1975.
They called it Microsoft. They let the computer company license 2 their operating system for $30 per computer. In their first year, they earned $16,000. This was enough to convince Gates to quit Harvard and work full-time 3
Microsoft became a public company in 1981. The company grew quickly and Gates became very rich. Gates may have slowed down a little, but he still works hard to stay ahead of computer hardware, creating operating systems for computers that are not yet in the stores.


semester 学期(美国英语)
drop out 辍学
career ? 事业
programming 编程
operating system 操作系统
convince 说服
quit ? 放弃


比尔•盖茨
若能被哈佛录取,大部分的高中学生都会很高兴,但是哈佛却没有给小比尔•盖茨多少。几个学期后,他辍学了,出去工作。最终他使自己成为了世界上最富裕的人。
事实上,他的事业从高中时就开始了,那时他发现了令人着迷的电脑世界。他很快学会了叫做BASIC的编程语言。他花费很多时间去探究计算机能做些什么。不久以后,他和他的一个同班同学保罗•爱伦就开始成为当地电脑编程的专家。
高中毕业后,这对朋友走上了不同的道路。爱伦呆在西雅图而盖茨去了波士顿读哈佛。然而在哈佛,盖茨并不是一个认真的学生。他将绝大多数的时间花在了学校计算机中心里。
1975年这两个年轻人决定开一个小公司。他们将它叫做微软。他们以每台计算机30美元的价格向电脑厂商授权他们的操作系统。第一年他们赚了16 000美元。这足以说服盖茨放弃哈佛的学业去开始全职工作。
1981年微软成为了一家上市公司。公司发展很快,盖茨变的非常富有。盖茨可能已经放慢了脚步,但他仍努力工作以保持领先于电脑硬件的发展,开发市场上还没有的电脑操作系统。



1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
3 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
学英语单词
adenyltransferase
air swinging
airborne intelligence display
aminobutanoate
analog data transmission
arytenoidopexy
ask her out
aurochrome
autoactivation
begin-end pair
bipolar DC system
bromates
bronzy
bud of Chinese scholartree
built-in lead sharpener
bulk row fetching
burrliker
bus networks
calculation of earning power
campus-like
cellulose decomposing bacteria
cliff penstemons
coal-tar pitch
cold pig iron
collar tie beam
color doctor
cosmic-rays
credit-guarantee
delivery power
effective output impedance
Enlil
exportrestriction
feminine ideal
floating sheave
gastric filaments
genus Sporobolus
germ-free milk
Geylang Serai
group index
Gyowa
hard-to-sinter
hardware multiplier
Hunter's syndrome
hydromodulus
impulsive period
in full measure
inspector
Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Kalehe
kesling
kirklands
laser nuclear fusion
linear elastic theory
Listera biflora
low field layer
Manchu-Tungusic
matching collars and grooves
microsphaera yamadai (salmon) sydow
narrative process
naturity
Naxal
non-selective radiator
of vantage
operational scanning recognition
optical spatial frequency filter
pachs
percentage modulation
personal bondage
pinacotheca
Plumergat
plungertype cylinder
precystectomy
Pterocarpus angolensis
recreationist
refueling unit
resolution of a module
reverse pointer
rudder driver
saccharilla
schema data description language
serpentine
shoe insert
solar systems
standards of identity
stefanov
suborder Reptantia
subsyndromes
suffolk
supermario
the smallest unit of life
thienobenzodiazepine
thoracic salivary glands
tool grinding
trial range
trout cod
trumpet weeds
two wheel brake
uncatalog
vacuum-pumping
veiled plate
vertical growth
wake dune