时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Breaching 2 Computer Security 


Jin: Did you hear what happened to McQ Corp? 


Dina: No, what? 


Jin: Hackers 3 were able to get unauthorized access to its computer systems and cause a lot of problems over the weekend. They destroyed data and rendered the system unusable. In fact, the entire system crashed. 


Dina: I hadn’t heard that. Why McQ Corp? 


Jin: Well, the company announced last week that it had implemented 4 new security measures, which made their systems impenetrable. 


Dina: Ah, that explains it. Making an announcement like that is like issuing a challenge. 


Jin: Yeah, it was definitely a challenge. I bet a lot hackers were trying to breach 1 those security measures, just to show that it could be done. One of them certainly found the system’s vulnerabilities and exploited them. 


Dina: What was McQ Corp thinking? They’ve had problems in the past with hackers and then they issue this challenge. I say that it serves them right! 


Jin: They shouldn’t have bragged 5 about their new security measures, but those hackers caused a lot of damage. 


Dina: I bet McQ Corp learned its lesson: Don’t wave a red flag in front of a bull! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
2 breaching
攻破( breach的过去式 ); 破坏,违反
  • The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
  • Third, an agency can abuse its discretion by breaching certain principles of judge-made law. 第三,行政机关会因违反某些法官制定的法律原则而构成滥用自由裁量权。
3 hackers
n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 );私自存取或篡改电脑资料者,电脑“黑客”
  • They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒,他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面,他们最终同意了。 来自互联网
4 implemented
v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 );执行;贯彻;使生效
  • This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革,经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句
5 bragged
v.自夸,吹嘘( brag的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He bragged to his friends about the crime. 他向朋友炫耀他的罪行。
  • Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack. 玛丽夸口说她比杰克跑得快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abercia
act for
air pressures
Amorpha fruticosa
Ancylostemon convexus
ante lucem
anti-coincidence technique
aspherical particle
bank measurement
barren hermaphrodite flower
beteemed
Blasimon
bottom position
breach a contract
break in cross rates
breath of fresh air
caer-myrddin
cavernoma lymphaticum
changeover valve
chronic anovulation
command state
concrete work
continuous rod warhead
crowing respiration
cubiceps pauciradiatus
dead yards
decanoyl-
delahunts
delusorious
Dormigca
douchewagons
dry white wine
dungeon crawlers
Eldridge
electric arrangement cetificate
elliptical anagalactic nebula
emotion-thought
ferromanganese coating
finite state network
float on-float off
gagauzias
gaussian time series
gelotherapy
glove puppet
graduation interval
ground beetles
guaranteed level of service
haakdoring
hardcorest
hirings
Isar
Kettering, Charles Franklin
Lctobacteriaceae
low volume shipper
lubricatings
make ourselves scarce
Melanitta nigra
midnight feasts
mountain lily
Munenga
nasogenital
northern sporades (sporades)
nothing else
nowadays
operation of treaty
overload displacement
oxide ore
p-bromophenyl isocyanate
partial state machine
phasmida
phyllarenite
platanista gangetica
Procris
pseudo-random number
put ... to rest
red rider
redeliberates
respectability
saynd
schoolmistress
septum cordis
shwank
sighting-tube
speaker pressure rating
Spurway's syndrome
Swannee River
taperness
terbium(iii) acetylacetonate
the devil and all
Toshkivka
transformation of principal axis
twr
ultrathin gate oxides
vertex of star region
vice president finance
volume of reservoir
VRAM - video random access memory
waye
what's up with
xanthiosite
yam
yoke bar