新概念英語第四冊句子精粹Lesson10：硅谷

1、新概念英語第四冊句子精粹 Lesson10 ：硅谷課文 10 硅谷152. Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.技術(shù)的發(fā)展趨勢有可能把硅谷重新推向未來。153. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology,卡弗.米德 - 集成電路的一位先驅(qū)，加州理工學(xué)院的計算機(jī)教授154. notes there are n

2、ow work-stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. 注意到，現(xiàn)在有些計算機(jī)工作站使工程技術(shù)人員能夠在他們的辦公桌 上設(shè)計、試驗和生產(chǎn)芯片，就像一位編輯在蘋果機(jī)上編出一份時事通 訊一樣。155. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred

3、 dollars,因為制造一塊芯片的時間已縮短至幾天，費用也只有幾百美元，156. engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures.所以，工程技術(shù)人員可能很塊就可充分發(fā)揮他們的想像力，而不會因 失敗而造成經(jīng)濟(jì)上的損失。157. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the offic

4、e米德預(yù)言發(fā)明者能夠在辦公室用一個周末的時間生產(chǎn)了完美的、功能很強(qiáng)的、按客戶需求設(shè)計的芯片158. 'We're got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes. 'We really thrive on anarchy.'“我們有更多的汽車間，那里有很多聰明人，”米德說?！拔覀兇_實 是靠這種無政府狀態(tài)發(fā)展起來的?！?59. And on Asians. Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engi

5、neering staffs at many Valley firms.靠的是亞洲人。硅谷很多公司中工程技術(shù)人員的絕大部分是東方人和 亞裔美國人。160. And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges.中國、韓國、菲律賓和印度的工程師一批批地從加州的大學(xué)畢業(yè)。161. As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on cus

6、toms and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets.作為新掘起一代的帶頭人，亞裔發(fā)明家能夠憑借他們在習(xí)慣和語言上 的優(yōu)勢，與關(guān)鍵的太平洋沿岸市場建立起更加牢固的聯(lián)系。162. For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph. D. from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market.比如說，亞歷克斯 . 奧，一位來自

7、香港的斯坦福大學(xué)博士，已經(jīng)在臺灣 建廠，對日本在內(nèi)存條市場上近似壟斷的局面提出了挑戰(zhàn)。163. India-born N.Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened an AT & T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri.印度出生的N.達(dá)莫達(dá).雷迪經(jīng)營的小小的加州公司在堪薩斯城重新啟用 了美國電話電報公司的一家芯片工廠，并從密蘇里州獲取了財政上的 支持。164. Before it becomes a retirement