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释义 | 〔moral〕 Virtuous implies moral excellence and loftiness of character;in a narrower sense it refers to sexual chastity: Virtuous 暗示高尚的道德和高贵的品质,狭义指节制性欲的: 〔glitch〕Although in retrospectglitch seems to be a word that people would always have found useful, it is first recorded in English in 1962in the writing of John Glenn:"Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch.’”Glenn then gives the technical sense of the word the astronauts had adopted:"Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current.”In this very passage we see how the word moved from its narrow, technical electronic sense to a more general sense, even if the astronauts were not necessarily the first to extend the meaning ofglitch. Since then the word has passed beyond technical useand now covers a wide variety of malfunctions and mishaps.回溯历史,尽管glitch 似乎是一个向来有用的单词, 但是直到1962年它才首次在英语中有记录,在约翰·格林著作中:“我们所采用的另一个用来描述我们的问题的词汇是‘glitch’”。格林给这个词下了为宇航员所采用的专业定义, “严格来说,glitch是指电流中电压受阻或变化。”。在这里,即使宇航员不一定是第一个引申了glitch 的含义,可是我们看到这个词是如何从它狭义的电子技术上的意义发展到更普遍的意义。 此后这个词超出了技术上的使用范围,现在可指多种功能故障和灾祸〔constructionist〕a strict constructionist.作狭义解释的人〔verbal〕Verbal has been used to refer to spoken, as opposed to written, communication by reputable writers since the 16th century, and the usage cannot be considered incorrect.But critics are right to observe that this use ofverbal may sometimes invite confusion with the use meaning "by linguistic means.” Thus the phrasemodern technologies for verbal communication may refer only to devices such as radio, the telephone, and the loudspeaker, or also may refer to devices such as the telegraph, the teletype, and the fax machine.In such contexts the wordoral is always available to convey the narrower sense of communication by spoken means. Verbal 自16世纪以来一直为优秀作家所使用,用来指与书面交流相对的口头交流, 而且不能认为这一用法是不正确的。但是批评家们却正确地评论说verbal 的这一用法有些时候可能会与意指“通过语言的方式”的用法相混淆。 由此modern technologies for verbal communication(用于语言交流的现代技术) 这一短语可能只用于指诸如无线电广播、电话以及扬声器之类的装置, 或者也有可能又指诸如电报机、电传打字机以及传真机之类的装置。在这种情况中,oral 一词总是用来表示用口头方式的狭义上的交流 〔Einstein〕German-born American theoretical physicist whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. He won a 1921 Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.爱因斯坦,阿尔贝特:(1879-1955) 德裔美国理论物理学家,他创立的狭义和广义相对论使现代关于时间和时间性质的想法发生突破性进展并给原子能的利用提供了理论基础。 因其对光电效应的解释获1921年诺贝尔奖〔contemporary〕Simultaneous more narrowly specifies occurrence of events at the same time: Simultaneous 更为狭义地具体指事件的同时发生: 〔state〕 Situation more narrowly refers to a state or condition at a particular time as determined by a combination of circumstances: Situation 较狭义地指由环境综合决定的特定时间上的状态或情形: |
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