计算机专业英语(第二版) 教学课件 作者 吴群 吴坚 Lesson Seven.ppt

专业英语 Lesson Seven ? Key point: the infinitive ? Difficult points: the tense of infinitive ? Requirement: By the end of this lesson, you should be able to have a good command of The usage of the infinitive computer terms given in the lesson ? By the end of this lesson, you should be able to describe a creative process of a software design familiar to the structure of formal letter Using Ants as Models for New Distributed Systems Abstract: This article describes a creative process of a software design--- using ants as models for new distributed system. Key words: ants; models; a revolution in software design New Words gung-ho a. 雄心勃勃的；同心协力的 straightforward a. 直接的；简单的 ad hoc ad. 尤其；特别 flowchart n. 流程图 ant n. 蚂蚁 humble a. 低级的 insect n. 昆虫 herald v. 宣布；预示……的来临 centralized a. 集中的 behavior n. 行为 mimic a. 模仿的 agent n. 代理（本课中指代理程序） enormously ad. 庞大地 swarm n. 蚂蚁群 intelligence n. 智力 emerge v. 出现；浮现 rudimentary a. 基本的；初步的； 发展不完全的 conventional a. 惯例的；常规的 disturb v. 打扰；妨害 column n. 专栏；编队 obstruction n. 阻塞 optimization n. 最佳化；最优化 on the fly 在忙碌中；匆忙地 draw on v. 使成形；使具形体 disturb v. 打扰；弄乱 predict v. 预料 Sentence Explanations 1. Rather than relying on complex, centralized logic systems that mimic ant behavior use many small, autonomous software agents. 模仿蚂蚁行为的软件系统不是依赖复杂的集中式逻辑程序，而是利用许多短小的、自治的软件代理程序。 2. Higher-level, or “swarm”, intelligence emerges from those rudimentary rules in ways that would be difficult to program into conventional software. 更高级的，如“蚁群”这一层，智能从那些简单的规则中，用于常规的编程中，可能解决非常复杂的问题。 3.?? Today, such systems are typically used for optimization applications such as factory scheduli