中英对照 关于计算机的科技英语,《计算机专业英语》（中英文对照）.pdf

《计算机专业英语》(中英文对照)

计算机专业英语

Computer English

Chapter 1 The History and

Future of Computers

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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers

Key points:

Key points:

useful terms and definitions of

useful terms and definitions of

computers

computers

Difficult points:

Difficult points:

describing the features of

describing the features of

computers of each generation

computers of each generation

计算机专业英语 1-2

Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers

Requirements:

Requirements:

1. The trends of computer hardware and software

2. Basic characteristics of modern computers

3. Major characteristics of the four generations

of modern computers

4. 了解科技英语的特点，掌握科技英语翻译要点

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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers

1.1 The Invention of the Computer

New Words & Expressions:

computerlike a. 计算机似的 electromechanical a. 机电的, 电机的

vacuum tubes 真空管 Census Bureau 人口普查局

thousands of 成千上万的 known as 通常所说的，以……著称

Abbreviations:

ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

电子数字积分计算机，ENIAC计算机

EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer)

延迟存储电子自动计算机

BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) 二进制自动计算机

UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) 通用自动计算机

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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers

1.1 The Invention of the Computer

It is hard to say exactly when the modern computer was

invented. Starting in the 1930s and through the 1940s, a number

of machines were developed that were like computers. But most

of these machines did not have all the characteri