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
a widow's cruse
acrylamido
advices
air filtration system
average due date
bany
be in favour
belated payment
channel encoder
charter rate by distance
chief of police
chop the wood
circulation route
compubank
contracture of fingers in children
crosslinked polyimide
cryoadhesion
database descriptor module
dauernarcosis
demagnetizing winding
dioctyl adipate
direct free kick
direct-action fuse
disrespectfully
emergency signal service message
emulsifying efficiency
ergatandrous
ethoxybenzoic acid
evangelica
external burst flag
flea-bitten
fluid compression process
gain market
gas-holder foundation
go-teams
governesslike
gray scale display
high pitch regulator
high-speed plate drier
Hybdrula
ichthyotoxins
investment in non-productive projects
jcpt
kournikova
lansfords
lapu
lateral circumflex veins of thigh
leader region
Lepar, Sungai
loduca
lymphographies
machine plant
maintenance of free trade
marginal probability density function
mathematically
md5-summed
microtooth
naud
net profit or loss
nomenklaturas
nonsentience
passenger bridge
perceptual preference
pleatless
posterolophids
prediction coefficient
protective covers
PUFA-FO
pyelogenic
radwaste treatment
raiders of the lost ark
receipt and payment documents
regiones nuchae
reserve for debt retirement
retaining dike
rhomb-
sal acetosella
sapo animalis
sediment pollution
seize the day
sexual arousal
sheet-piling
Shelter Island
shipping-master
silting up of leak
simple chancre
soil penetration resistance
stem backer
stone veneer
superheated steam temperature control
take a shy at sb
time variation of gain
toburst
torsion rod spring
track and fields
transcription(hayashi & spiegelman 1964)
uranium tritide
valorise
visible bearing
winch dyeing machine
Yvonne