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Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
Computer technology has become a major part of people's lives. This technology has its own special words. One example is the word mouse. A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields. It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer, or cursor, on the computer screen.
Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early nineteen-sixties. The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.
Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
Another well known computer word is Google, spelled g-o-o-g-l-e. It is the name of a popular "search engine" for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol, spelled g-o-o-g-o-l, is an extremely large number. It is the number one followed by one-hundred zeros.
When you "Google" a subject, you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to Google their friends or themselves to see how many times their name appears on the Internet.
If you Google someone, you might find that person's name on a blog. A blog is the shortened name for a Web log. A blog is a personal Web page. It may contain stories, comments, pictures and links to other Web sites. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.
Blogs are not the same as spam. Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox. The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called SPAM. Every time the friends try to speak, another group of people starts singing the word SPAM very loudly. This interferes with the friends' discussion – just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Internet.
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This VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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词汇解释
1.google n.谷歌 vt在互联网上快速查找信息
I googled you and found out you were lying to me about your Ph.D.
我在网上查了你的信息，发现你所谓的博士学历全是一派谎言。
2.transcript n.抄本; 誊本; 打字本; 副本
A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.
一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
3.cursor n.光标
You can move the cursor by using the mouse
你可以使用鼠标器来移动光标
内容解析
1.Some people add information to their blogs every day.
add...to...把...添加到...
Will you add more sugar to your coffee?
你的咖啡要多加些糖吗？
Please add my name to the list.
请在名单上加上我的名字。
add to增加
The bad weather added to our difficulties.
坏天气增加了我们的困难。
The examination has added to their pressure.
考试增加了他们的压力。
2.This interferes with the friends' discussion – just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Internet.
interfere with干预, 阻挠, 妨碍, 阻止
That interferes with my plan.
那干扰了我的计划。
He was afraid this would interfere with his study
他担心这会妨碍他的学习。
参考译文
这里是VOA慢速英语词汇典故。
计算机技术已经成为人们生活的一部分。这项技术有它自己的特殊语言，比如鼠标。电脑鼠标不是一种生活在房屋或开阔地里的小动物。它是一种能在电脑前平坦表面移动的小装置。鼠标能带动电脑屏幕上的光标。
电脑专家Douglas Engelbart在20世纪60年代早期完善了鼠标理念。第一个电脑鼠标是木头雕刻的带有两个滚轮的小木头盒子。它之所以叫鼠标是因为它的末端有一条尾巴。这条尾巴就是与电脑相连的电线。
使用电脑需要一定的训练。电脑专家们有时被叫作黑客。黑客通常指用特殊计算机语言编写软件程序的人。但是黑客也用于描述试图窃取电脑系统资料的人。
另外一个著名的电脑术语就是Google，拼作g-o-o-g-l-e.它是互联网上一个著名搜索引擎的名字。人们使用搜索引擎可以在互联网上查询任何一个主题的信息。创办Google公司的人之所以叫它Google,是因为在数学中googol，拼写为g-o-o-g-o-l，表示一个非常大的数字，即1后面跟一百个零。
当你使用Google查询一个主题的时候，你能够获得相关大量信息。一些人喜欢查询他们的朋友或自己的名字在互联网上出现了多少次。
如果你查询某个人，你可能在一个博客上找到这个人的名字。博客是网络日志的简称，它是一种个人网页。博客中可能含有故事，评论，图片和与其它网站的链接。有些人每天都会给他们的博客增添信息。写博客的人也叫博客。
博客不同于垃圾邮件。垃圾邮件是发送到电子邮箱中的您并不需要的销售信息。这个名字源于多年前一个英国电视节目，“飞行马戏团”上的一个有趣的笑话。一些朋友聚在一个叫SPAM的餐厅，这个餐厅只提供从美国进口的加工肉食产品。每当朋友想说话时，另一些人就会大声地唱SPAM歌，从而干扰了朋友间的谈话——就像互联网上干扰交流的不受欢迎的销售信息。
这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故，作者吉尔·莫斯，我是费斯·拉皮德斯。
