998.gadget (n.) 精巧的小器械
[同] appliance
To see about this technology for myself,I spent some time using one gadget,Philips Magnavox's WEBTV.(TIME,Mar. 10,1997,P.49)
为了亲身体验这项科技成果,我花了些时间使用其中一种机型,即飞利浦Magnavox牌的网络电视。
999.gambit (n.) 手段,招式
[同]ploy tactic
Specter's pro-choice gambit may be less appealing when women are reminded of his role as Anita Hill's grand inquisitor during the Clarence Thomas hearings.(TIME,Mar. 13,1995,P.66)
在克拉伦斯·托马斯听证会上,有人提醒妇女们,斯佩克特曾是安尼塔·希尔一案的大法官,这可能会使他所走的支持堕胎这步棋的功效大打折扣。
注:pro-choice (a.)赞成堕胎的,相反词是pro-life
1000.geek (n.) 电脑狂,怪胎
Programmers who find the market for Windows software increasingly crowded and unprofitable see fresh opportunities to make their mark in Java.“The geeks are buzzed…It's like a whole world just opened up to us.”(TIME,Jan.22,1996,p. 42)
程序设计师发现,视窗软件的市场愈来愈饱和,且愈来愈无利可图,但在“爪哇”程序里,他们看到了能够占有一席之地的新商机。“电脑玩家都为之疯狂,就好像整个世界在我们眼前敞开一样。”
注:to make one's mark 扬名,成功
1001.glut (n.) 过量,供过于求
[同]surplus
The House of Representatives last week passed a series of legal-reform bills intended to discourage frivolous lawsuits,of which there is alleged to be a glut.(TIME,Mar.20,1995,p.13)
上星期众议院通过了一系列司法改革法案,以遏止人们打一些无关紧要的官司,据说人们打官司已到了泛滥的地步。?
注:frivolous (a.)无意义的,不重要的
1002.gorge (n.) 作呕,厌恶
In the interest of participatory journalism,I swallowed my rising gorge and tried(Doomcomputer game)again.(TIME,Dec. 18,1995,p. 60)
为了写一篇亲身感受的报道,我硬是咽下了那愈来愈强的厌恶感,再玩一遍“毁灭战士”电脑
游戏。
注:in the interest of为了;journalism (n.) 新闻写作
1003.hacker (n.) 黑客,电脑程序专家
The transformation that has set Microsoft on the road to a Net-based future has also completed Gates’ beatification as not just a great hacker but also a world-class CEO.(TIME,Sept.16,1996,P.41)
让微软转轨,迈上通往以网络为主的未来世界的道路,此举也完成了盖茨个人的神话,使他不仅是超级“黑客”,更是世界级的总裁。
注:beatification (n.) (天主教)以教令宣告某死者因功德已升天列入“真福品位”,有资格受到大家的尊崇。
1004.hardler (n.) 处理者,经手人
Some captured radio operators,ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents,managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code words that they were being held.(TIME,June 24,1996,P.25)
有些被北越俘虏的无线电发报员,被北越命令发出增派情报员的要求,但他们成功地以密码告知中央情报局联络人他们被俘的消息。
1005.haven (n.) 避难所
[同]refuge
Meanwhile,NATO Defense Ministers approved a plan of intensified retaliation against Bosnian Serb violations of cease-fire and safe-haven agreements,a move that some fear may only widen the war.(TIME,Oct.10,1994,p. 19)
同时,北约国防部通过了为防止波斯尼亚的塞尔维亚人破坏停火和安全避难区协议而制定的加强报复计划,只是此举恐怕只会更加扩大战争。
1006.heretic (n.) 异端
He has been called a fascist,a heretic and shenjingbing,a lunatic.(TIME,Feb. 20,1995,P. 61)? 他一直被称作法西斯分子、异端和神经病。
1007.holdout (n.) 拒不合作者,拒不参加者
The R.S.V.P.s are in,and 196 of the 197 nations invited to Atlanta have said yes.(Even
holdout North Korea is wavering.)(TIME,Jan. 8,1996,P. 13)
根据收到的回函,受邀的197个国家里,已经有196个答应参加亚特兰大奥运会(连唯一说不的北朝鲜也开始犹豫了)。
注:R.S.V.P.法文répondez s’il vous pla ? t(请回复)的缩写,即“回函”之意;waver (v.) 意志动摇,犹豫不决