时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:名人传记


英语课

   Woz and jobs became inseparable friends,


  沃兹和乔布斯成为了形影不离的伙伴,
  But their first venture was not a computer.
  但是他们的第一项冒险举动并不是电脑
  The pair developed an electronics kit 1
  这对组合开发了一个电子小工具
  Mimicking 2 telephone router codes
  用模拟电话交换码的方式
  To make free calls around the world.
  来拨打全球免费电话.
  you know, when you make a long distance phone call
  你知道,当你在拨打长途电话的时候,
  In the background you hear, "do do do do do"
  你会听到耳朵里有"嘟嘟嘟嘟嘟"的声音
  Those are the telephone computers actually signaling each other,
  那是电话交换机的电脑在向其他电脑发送信号
  Sending information to each other to set up your call.
  通过这信号来完成你拨打电话的指令.
  And there used to be a way to fool
  所以那会儿有一种方法
  The entire telephone system into thinking
  通过欺骗整个电话系统使之认为
  You were a telephone computer.
  你是一台电话交换机.
  You could, you know, call from a pay phone,
  你可以,你知道吗,从一个付费电话拨打到
  Go to white plains, new york, take a satellite to europe,
  White plains,纽约,或者通过卫星拨打到欧洲
  Take a cable to turkey, um, come back to los angeles,
  或者通过海底电缆拨打到土耳其,嗯,再拨打回洛杉矶
  And you'd go around the world 3 or 4 times and call
  你可以在你家门口附近的付费电话里喊一喊,
  The payphone next door, shout in the phone,
  拨打三四次全世界的长途电话号码
  And be about 30 seconds, it would come out the other phone.
  然后30秒后,那边就接通了.
  the pair quickly moved on from phone-jacking for fun
  这对年轻人很快把他们对于通过电话黑客找乐子的兴趣
  To creating computers,
  转移到了建造电脑计算机上,
  building the prototype of the very first apple.
  也就是第一台苹果电脑上.
  It's a fond memory for steve wozniak.
  对于沃兹来说那是一段美好的回忆.
  Wozniak: he was always thinking about certain technology,
  他总是在思考这些技术
  The early products that got developed, the building parts,
  这些正在制作的部分或者已经完成的早期产品
  What those might lead to in our future,
  将如何引领我们的未来
  And he was always pushing me as an engineer
  他一直在敦促我把我变成一个工程师
  "could you possibly add this someday,
  "你能在某个时候加入这个(功能)吗?
  Could you possibly add that someday?"
  你能在某个时候加入那个(功能)吗?"
  "yes, yes, yes, I could,"
  "可以,可以,可以,我能."
  Thinking, "no. It's way, way off,"
  其实我心里在想, "不,还早着呢."
  But eventually we all did.
  但是最后我们全部做到了.
  in those early days, woz and jobs took their creation
  在早期,沃兹和乔布斯带着他们的发明
  To the homebrew computer club,
  参加了"个人电脑俱乐部",
  an early computer club, an early computer users' group in silicon 3 valley,
  一个早期由硅谷电脑用户们自发组建的电脑俱乐部
  Where it quickly attracted attention from their peers.
  在那里他们很快引起了其他人的注意

1 kit
n.用具包,成套工具;随身携带物
  • The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
  • The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。
2 mimicking
v.(尤指为了逗乐而)模仿( mimic的现在分词 );酷似
  • She's always mimicking the teachers. 她总喜欢模仿老师的言谈举止。
  • The boy made us all laugh by mimicking the teacher's voice. 这男孩模仿老师的声音,逗得我们大家都笑了。 来自辞典例句
3 silicon
n.硅(旧名矽)
  • This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
  • A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。
标签: 乔布斯 传记
学英语单词
acronic
alternating current propulsion
aluminium dihydrogen phosphate
applied factory burden
as common as the hedge
atlacomulco
attaintment
authorized capital
bead condensation
Bondil
breached
bushbash
cacalias
calcareous cement
catastrophists
centrifugal potential energy
chemical mediator
civic right
clear hawse pipe
complaint management
consistentwiths
copybook
decidedness
declutters
Donghai Coastal Current
Donnemarie-Dontilly
electronic decelerometer
erizepine
errite
Estonian Sign Language
exchange money
family disruption
fluoroethylene resin
free of particular average English conditions
galactic cosmic radiation
gastrocolic reflex
glow lamps
Gualeguay
haliotis rufescens
herd into
hexa-net
hinghman
Houlka
intermediate spinning frame
investment center
lake st. clairs
latticed dune
leggedness
life time of energy level
lisk
maslows
memory management fault
Michaelmas
Milanaise
millepora dichotoma
milli-mass-unit
multiple address computer
Myurocloda
nightspot
nosogeography
orifice flow
owners
paradoxical pupil phenomenon
percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Pop Idol
prehension (of an animal)hunt for food
Prirechensk
prostatoxin
receptor protein
remote broadcast
renie
rosy view
rotary coordinate system
self-discharging bucket
send control procedure
shared read-only system residence disk
shear rate thixotropy
silodosin
skip out on
slab-column structure
solita
soogee
standard change gear
statement of financial operations
stef
suborder alcyonaceas
support bearing
swineherder
tooth-shell
trichinelloses
tricholomoid
tunnel entrance brilliance
vad-
variable speech control
very large crude-oil carrier
vulcanizing apparatus
water-extractable acid of soil
windthorne
work cloths
work-session-initiation processing level
writ of replevin
yruled