1. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now 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.
卡弗.米德——集成电路的一位先驱,加州理工学院的计算机教授——注意到,现在有些计算机工作站使工程技术人员可以在他们的办公桌上设计、试验和生产芯片,就像一位编辑在苹果机上编出一份时事通讯一样。
note的意思是指出,相当于point out。enable是及物动词,通常的用法是enable sb to do sth,使某人得以做某事。much the way表示就像……例举,有点比喻的意思,也可以用just as。
2. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures.
由于制造一块芯片的时间已缩短至几天,费用也只有几百美元,因此,工程技术人员可能很块就可充分发挥他们的想像力,而不会因失败而造成经济上的损失。
with和without通常和现在分词或过去分词一起表示状态。至于后面是用过去分词还是现在分词,就看主语和动作之间的关系是主动和是被动。
3. As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets.
作为新掘起一代的带头人,亚裔发明家可以凭借他们在习惯和语言上的优势,与关键的太平洋沿岸市场建立起更加牢固的联系。
draw on 吸收,利用,引诱
例句:We drew on her experience throughout the project.
我们这一项目自始至终都借重她的经验。
4.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.
比如说,亚历克斯·奥,一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士,已经在台湾建厂,对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。
for instance 例如,譬如,比如,比方说
例句:Take propaganda work for instance.
就说宣传工作吧。
For instance, our departments are overstaffed.
比如,我们现在机构臃肿,人浮于事。
set up 设立,竖立,架起,升起,装配,创(纪录),提出,开业
例句:I am calling to set up a meeting with Mr. Hammer.
我打电话来是想跟先生约定会面。