计算机专业英语上课课件1.ppt

It’s most important to decide whether the lightweight and compact design of a laptop is important enough to sacrifice the lower cost, flexible construction, and generally larger keyboard and screen in a desktop system. 最重要的是决定该选择更轻和更精密设计的手提电脑，还是选择价格低廉，构造灵活以及具有更大的键盘和屏幕的台式电脑？ A few specialty manufacturers offer compact designs that don’t meet the industry standards,but most desktop computers resemble the ones shown in Figure1.1 一些专业制造商提供不符合业界标准的紧缩设计，但多数台式计算机与图1.1所示的类似. If you’re planning to carry the computer with you when you travel for business,or if you want to take the computer on vocation with you to surf the Internet while your family surfs the waves on a beach. 如果你计划着携带计算机去商务旅行,或者当度假时,家人在海滩上冲浪,而你自己却想在互联网上冲浪. Section B Configure 配置,设定 Graphics controller 图形控制杆 Flat-panel 平板 Motherboard 主板 Disk drive 磁盘驱动器 Expantion card 扩展卡 Memory 存储器,内存条 Hard drive 硬盘 Computer-aided 计算机辅助的 CAD: computer aided design 计算机辅助设计 CAM: computer aided manufacturing 辅助制造 CAI: computer aided Instruction 辅助教学 Circuit board 电路板 plug 插头 Upgrade 升级 Socket 插座、插槽 Drive bays 驱动槽 Storage capacity 存储容量 A desktop computer with its separate keyboard, mouse,monitor,and speakers is big,bulky,and awkward to move around. 台式计算机带有独立的键盘,鼠标,显示器和扬声器,移动起来比较费劲. It is possible to spend more for a desktop computer than the price of a good laptop by choosing a super-fast processor and graphics controller, lots of memory ,a large flat-panel monitor, and other high-end components and features,but that is not a fair comparison. 花费比手提电脑更多的价钱去买一台台式电脑,使其具有超快的处理器和图形控制杆、超大的内存，大尺寸的平板显示器以及其他的高端部件和配置，这不是不可能的，但这不是一个公平的对比。 Northgate stopped making these keyboards many years ago,but the plug on the keyboard’s cable still fits the socket on my current computer and it works just fine with a twenty-first century processor and motherland. Northgate 公司许多年前已经停止生产此类键盘了，但是这个键盘的电缆插头和我目前使用的计算机的插座仍然匹配，而且它与21世纪生产的处理器和主板匹配得非常好。 科技英语的特点 一、复杂长句多 例如： Factories will not buy machines unless they belie