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Слововбиватель (радикальное запоминание английских слов) 72


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Слововбиватель (word-hammer) - радикальное запоминание английских слов

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1. Наблюдается интересное явление. В английском языке основная масса слов - короткие. Если же слово длинное, то его в разговорной речи пытаются "укоротить":

telephone - phone;
professional - pro;
Gorbachev - Gorby.

Вот и слово <airplane ['plein] - самолет> превратилось в

plane - самолет.

We'll get there by plane.
- Мы будем добираться туда самолетом.

It happened when the plane was already in the air [].
- Это произошло, когда самолет был уже в воздухе.

Planes aren't as dangerous as many people think.
- Самолеты не такие опасные, как многие думают.

"Самолеты летают." - Не очень глубокомысленное предложение, но тем не менее.

fly - (flew [flu:], flown [flun]) - летать.
fly an airplane - управлять самолетом;

Самолеты летают. -
Planes fly. or Airplanes fly.

На самолетах летают не только богатые люди. -
Not only rich people fly by planes.

Самолет пролетел очень низко. -
The plane flew very low. or The plane has flown very low.

2. Следующее слово будет легко запомнить, т.к. вы знаете его компоненты - <with - c> и <out - вне, от>.

without [wi'aut] - без.

They will be able to do it without me.
- Они смогут сделать это без меня.

Is it possible to learn without textbooks?
- А можно ли учиться без учебников?

This software was chosen without our help.
- Этот софт выбрали без нашей помощи.

3. Англичане - совсем не категоричные люди, так что в своей речи они довольно часто используют слово

seem - казаться;

It seems to me ... - Мне кажется ...

His words seemed to be true.
- Его слова были похожи на правду.

In the photo she seemed tired.
- На фотографии она казалась уставшей.

4. Одним из показателей возрастающего уровня владения языком является знание синонимов. Это помогает разбираться в стилистической окраске встречающихся выражений. Представьте себе, что вы изучаете русский язык. Если вы знаете слово "разговор", то совсем не помешает знать слово "беседа". А когда вы будете приближаться к продвинутому уровню владения языком, вам понадобится слово "болтовня" и, как признак приближения к совершенству, глаголы "базарить, судачить, чирикать".

Вспомним слово <talk [t:k] - говорить, разговаривать>. Есть и существительное talk - разговор (скорее нейтральный, разговорный вариант). А есть и его более литературный, формальный синоним -

conversation [,knv'sein] - беседа, разговор.

Our conversation is not finished yet.
- Наша беседа еще не закончена.

Do you remember the details of our last conversation?
- Ты помнишь детали нашего последнего разговора?

It seems they got tired because of such a long conversation.
- Кажется, они устали от такой долгой беседы.

5. Боюсь, что слово

telecommute [,telikm'ju:t] - работать в отдаленном месте, используя компьютерную сеть; заниматься телеработой ("телекомьютингом")

пока не относится к разряду часто употребляемых. Но кто знает? Может быть в будущем оно таким и станет.

When you work somewhere and then send your work to another place using computers, you are telecommuting.
- Если вы работаете в одном месте, а затем отправляете свою работу в другое место, используя компьютеры, то вы занимаетесь телеработой.

In the future more people will be telecommuting, using the Internet.
- В будущем многие люди будут заниматься телеработой, используя интернет.

Telecommuting will change our lives in many ways.
- Система отдаленной работы изменит нашу жизнь во многих отношениях.

6. Обратите внимание на многозначное слово

board [b:d] - доска;

В тексте оно встречается со значением

bulletin ['bulitin] board - доска объявлений (ам.);

Впрочем, это слово присутствует во многих других словах и выражениях:

black board - школьная доска;
cutting board - доска для резки хлеба;
message board - доска объявлений (брит.).

I found your message on the bulletin board.
- Я нашел Ваше сообщение на доске объявлений.

Look at the blackboard.
- Посмотрите на доску.

Their primitive boat was made of old boards.
- Их примитивная лотка была сделана из старых досок.

share [] (with) - использовать совместно (c), делиться (c);

Why don't you want to share a cake with me?
- Почему ты не хочешь поделиться со мной пирогом?

When we were students we shared a room.
- Когда мы были студентами, то жили с ним в одной комнате.

The reporter shared this news with another paper.
- Репортер поделился новостью с другой газетой.

Bill Gates. The Road Ahead

Chapter 4. Changes in Information Systems.

What a document? Most people will say that it is a piece of paper that tells you something. For more than five hundred years, people have used ideas and information. This book is a document.
  
In fact, a document is anything that tells you something. The news on television is a document, too. There will still be paper in future, but there will also be other ways to keep and share documents.
  
The Internet has let millions of people get to know electronic documents that move from one computer to another. Because computers can do more than paper can, these documents often are more useful to you. The idea of a "document" will change.
  
When I was young, I loved the encyclopedia that my family had. When I wanted to know about something, I could read about it and look at pictures of it. I spent a lot of time with the encyclopedia, and I read a lot of it.

 

spent - проводить (время);
Microsoft Encarta is an electronic encyclopedia. It has a million words but it also has photographs, movies and music. If you want to know about Egyptian music, you can hear the real music while you read about it. You can also hear what famous people said, or see a movie that explains how a machine works. No paper encyclopedia can give you this.
  
Paper documents aren't the only ones that will change. The television news will be as long as you want. If you want more information on something they're talking about, you will be able to ask for it.
  
Already you can share information on the Internet. You can share ideas, too, by putting your letters or messages on a bulletin board. An electronic bulletin board is a place in a system of computers where people can read or write messages about something that interests them. A million people can read what you write, or maybe no one will. But either way, you've put your ideas there. And there are bulletin boards about almost everything on the Internet.

 

 

either ['ai]/['i:] - и тот и другой;
Games are another reason people enjoy computers. Today, most computer games are on special compact discs. Every player starts with the same game but he changes it by choosing what he will do with the game. But as the Internet grows, people are beginning to play against other computer users, not just by themselves.
 enjoy [in'i] - наслаждаться, получать удовольствие;
Computers have changed movies, too. It was computer software that gave us the animals in Jurassic Park and many exciting parts in other movies like The Lion King and The Mask.
  
One of the most interesting ideas in the world of computers is Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality, or VR, is a system of pictures and sounds the computer uses to make a "place". The place isn't real, but it seems real, and you think you're in it. You can look to the right and the left, and the system knows you're turning your head and it changes the pictures. You see these "places" through special computer glasses. With VR, you will be able to learn what it's like to fly an airplane, drive a car, or maybe go inside a body to see the heart working, all without getting off a chair in your living room.
 right - правый;
left - левый;
glasses - очки;
Today people use a sort of Virtual Reality in many different kinds of computer games, but VR is more than a game. Pilots who are learning to fly airplanes can use it and can "crash" safely, for example. Doctors can use it to practice difficult work.

kind - вид;

crash - авария;
Virtual Reality systems won't just show us places that we know. There will be wonderful, unreal words, too. People are already working to make these interesting, unreal worlds.
  

 

Chapter 5. The World of Business.

We are leaving the world of paper documents, and because of this, business is changing. The personal computer has already changed how we work, and now that computers are talking to each other business will change even more. The possibilities are exciting, but people have to remember that a computer is only a tool. It can help you with many of your problems, but those problems won't disappear just because you have a computer.

 

now that - ...теперь, когда ...;

tool - инструмент;
disappear - исчезать;
When I was a kid, computers were big machines and only big businesses used them. The computers were part of the reason that these businesses did better than small ones who used paper and pencil.

kid - ребенок;

pencil - карандаш;

But today, personal computers have changed all that. Businesses of all sizes use them, and they help their users to do more work.
 size - размер;
Today, people in business share information by sending messages and letters, by talking on the telephone and by meeting people from other companies around the table. All of this costs time and money.
 cost - стоить;
At Microsoft, we began to use electronic mail, letters that travel through computers, in the early 1980s. E-mail, as everyone calls it, took the place of paper.
  
E-mail is easy to use and goes from computer to computer immediately. At Microsoft, anyone in the company can send me messages by e-mail. The e-mail messages at Microsoft are usually a sentence or two. The reader gets the information that he needs but it doesn't take as long as a telephone conversation. In the future, e-mail will get better, changing in ways we haven't thought about yet.

sentence - предложение;

yet - еще;
Telephones will also get better. You will still hear the other person, but you will also see them, if the other person wants you to. Or you will be able to show other pictures through the same system.
  
People in business will "meet" without leaving their offices. I'm sure you've already seen people using this sort of communication on new shows on television. People in different countries talk together about the same thing, while a reporter in another place asks them questions. Businesses will find this system useful because it works better than telephone conversations, and it will be cheaper and quicker than bringing people together from around the country or around the world.
  
There is another part of work that is already changing. In the United States, millions of people work without going to an office every day. They do their jobs at home by using computers, e-mail and fax machines. When you work somewhere and then send your work to another place, you are telecommuting. The people who do this are telecommuters, and more and more people will be telecommuting in the future, using the Internet.
 
For this new system of telecommuting to work better, businesses will have to find a new way of thinking about work time. When you are in the office, the company pays you for every hour that you there. When you are telecommuting from your home, there will be times when you are looking after the baby or doing other things. When this happens, telecommuters will tell their computer, and the computer will tell the office that they are not working at this time.
  
A lot of companies will become smaller, using telecommuters only when they need them. Big is not always better in business.
  
Many telecommuters will work more than one company. They will put their work schedules into the computer, and other businesses will know when they are free to work for them.
 schedule ['edju:l] - расписание;
Telecommuting will change our lives in many ways. Many of today's problems are problems of the city, of too many people living in the same place because they can find work there.
  
Of course, there are good things, too, about living in the city. There is more to see and do and the hospitals and schools are bigger and sometimes better. But when people choose to live in the city, they live with the bad so they can have the good.
  
Over time, as the Internet brings your work to your home, it will also bring many of the other good things from the city with it: college lessons, city tours, or conversations with doctors at hospital far away. It is possible that when this happens, people will begin to leave the city. It seems strange, but this will possibly help the cities, too. If one person out of ten leaves the city, the city will have more money to spend on the other nine people.
 tour [tu] - тур.

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