时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


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In today's Tech bytes, DVRs are about to become much more widespread. The Supreme 1 Court declined to hear a case attempting to block so-called network DVRs. That technology allows you to store programs on your cable company's computers instead of a set-top box in your home. And that means current cable boxes could be converted to DVRs without any new equipment, making the technology cheaper and more widely available.


The latest installment 2 of the Harry 3 Potter series will be in movie theaters in just a couple of weeks, the new video game hits stores today. Does it have the same magic as the movies? Racheal Fishman of Parenting.com test(s) it out for us.


For fans of the Harry Potter series, this is a really exciting game release. You can move through Hogwarts, you can move through all these different locations there, you can play as one of the three stars. One of the really cool things about this game is that if you are playing on the Wii, you get to use the Wiimote as a wand, so you really feel like you are fighting that duel 4, and you're pointing the wand and shooting the spells, it's very exciting. Another really fun thing about the Harry Potter games is that they're equally appealing to both boys and girls and parents. It's an activity that families can do together, so it's really fun that way.


Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is available for all major gaming consoles.


Finally, are you worried that your kids are spending too much time online? Well, It turns out you're probably surfing the web more than they are. A new study finds teens spend 11.5 hours online each month, versus 5 29 hours for the average American. Of course part of the reason is that adults are browsing 6 at work while kids are at school. Another reason seems to be (that) kids spend a lot more time on their cellphones, sending hundreds of text messages each month.


For information on all of these stories, log on to the technology page of abcNews.com. Those are your tech bytes, I'm Vinita Nair.


 



1 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
2 installment
n.(instalment)分期付款;(连载的)一期
  • I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
  • He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。
3 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
4 duel
n./v.决斗;(双方的)斗争
  • The two teams are locked in a duel for first place.两个队为争夺第一名打得难解难分。
  • Duroy was forced to challenge his disparager to duel.杜洛瓦不得不向诋毁他的人提出决斗。
5 versus
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
6 browsing
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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adoperate
anti-foaming
arsenfast
arso-trachyte
Aspea
auxiliary report
baggywrinkle
blinded
block span
Brahmagupta
broad-spectrum
building department costs
canon in fourth
caralde
carbon shirt-circuiting furnace
catch of the day
centripress drainer
chain switch
colouring matter
control rod passage
Danderhall
directly ionizing particle
discreditableness
door boit bracket
double-layer-truss centering
education action zone
emptiers
et.al.
event log manager
flax breaker
fore-poppet
freeze-dryer
front instability
Gawd
give it to someone hot
glutathionylcobalamin
great go
heeter
herpes simplexes
hewland
Hexanitrol
heyth
Hordeum distichon
ideokinetic apraxia
idolomancy
impatiens longialata pritz.
impearls
in on the secret
Inapsin
incompleteline
indoor cable
inflight start
infrared microspectrography
insurance of freight
intermitlent myocardial ischemia
irradiates
isotropic intensity
kerry-merry-buff
Kettana
laneret
librarian
limited depositary
local prosecutor
Lorentz contraction
lung collapse
MACR (maintenance control program)
macro instruction set
neuroparalysis
neurosecretory nerve endings
non regulated discharge
not-for-profit
office computer system
online petition
orderly sea
p-hydroxy cinnamic acid
parietal lobules
Pendleton, Mt.
peridynamic loudspeaker
photo-synchronous pick-up
physical geodesy
protocol element
quantitative proportion
reheat gas turbine
removable contaminant
resting shoot
rhynchocoris humeralis
rudder with bulb
saturated fatty acids
secure a debt by mortgage
settle down to something
shirtee
sidelots
sodium-potassium alloy
springing executory interest
stairward
top of the slag
two-out-of-three voting system
urohematonephrosis
vestigial wing
wear sb to death
yoji
you're making progress