英语学习笔记2019-12-06

英语学习笔记2019-12-06

At the beginning of this term, we talked about the talent show which would be carried out at the end of our course. Now I want to know something about how about your preparation for the talent show. I hope that all of you make full preparation for this activity and perform well.

If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. 凡事预则立，不预则废。

Connection – Conversation – Sentence (words + grammar)

die —— be killed (lose one’s life)

• pass away
• kick the bucket

Weather Forecast/Prediction

safe topic
Heavy fog is enveloping/veiling the whole campus now.
Today the temperature is 4℃ so that we feel freezing cold.

Let us enjoy/appreciate a little poem.

Fog

雾

Carl Sandburg (U.S.A)

卡尔·桑德堡 (1878~1967)

The fog comes
on little cat feet

雾来了
蹑着猫足

It sits
looking over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on

它坐着，弓腰
俯瞰港口与城市
然后继续前行

译于2015年3月11日。

Q: Where is the poet from?
A: He is from U.S.A.
Q: When was he born?
A: He was born in 1878.
Q: When did he pass away?
A: He passed away in 1967.
Q: How many years did he live?
A: He lived for 89 years.
The poet left the world at age of 89.

The poet is good at describing the world (outer and inner) in accurate and vivid language.

bright

There is a bright star in the dark sky.
May you a bright future.
I am deeply moved by her bright smile.

顾城《一代人》

One Generation
Written by Gu Cheng

黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛，
我却用它寻找光明。

night gives me black eyes
yet I use them to seek light

Formula: Translating = Understanding + Expressing

Translate the following sentence into proper Chinese:

Follow your inner voice and go ahead without any fear.
曹铭泉(1932576103) 11:35:52 随心而动，勇往直前

The river is so rich because it has two banks. (pun: 银行、河岸)

No.1 ICBC: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
No.2 CBC: Construction Bank of China
No.3 B.O.C: Bank of China
No.4 : ABC: Agricultural Bank of China

Help ~ Aid
CAI: Computer-Aided Instruction
CAD: Computer-Aided Design
CAM: Computer-Aided Manufacturing

Better Weather Predictions Coming to the Developing World

发展中国家将迎来更精确的天气预报

The International Business Machines Corporation, known as IBM, says it is making technology for precision weather predictions available to everyone.

国际商业机器公司（IBM）表示，他们正在把能提供精准天气预报的科技带给每个人。

The company said the new weather forecasts offer more details and bring a level of precision once available only in major industrial countries.

该公司表示，新的天气预报系统将提供更多细节，其精确度达到此前仅主要工业国家才有的程度。

The forecasting tool is expected to help emergency officials better predict where severe storms will hit.

预测工具有望帮助紧急救援人员更好地预测暴风雨可能会袭击的地点。

It may also aid airline companies planning flight paths, as well as farmers caring for crops.

它还可能帮助航空公司规划飞行路线，帮助农民照看庄稼。

The new system creates weather forecasts more often and with finer details than what is available outside the United States, Europe and Japan.

与美国、欧洲和日本以外地区的天气预报系统相比，新系统创建天气预报更频繁，提供的信息也更详细。

Most forecasts have a resolution of 10 to 15 square kilometers and provide new information every six to 12 hours.

大多数预报系统的分辨率为10到15平方公里，每6到12个小时更新一次信息。

IBM’s Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System goes down to 3 square kilometers and provides information every hour.

IBM的全球高分辨率大气预测系统精确到3平方公里，且每小时更新一次信息。

"That’s providing a level of detail that we’ve not been able to see in parts of the world such as Southeast Asia,Africa as well as South America,"notes Kevin Petty.

凯文·佩蒂表示：“此系统提供的信息之详细是我们不曾在东南亚、非洲以及南美等世界部分地区能够看到的。”

He serves as director of science and forecasting at The Weather Company,which IBM owns.

佩蒂在IBM旗下的天气公司担任科学和预报主管。

That kind of precision can provide details of where and when extremely heavy rain will fall.

这种精度程度可以提供诸如何时何地会有极端暴雨等细节。

That could be useful in emergency situations,and could help farmers decide when to plant,harvest and fertilize crops.

这在紧急情况下可能非常有用，并且可以帮助农民决定何时进行作物的种植、施肥和收获。

Fred Carr is emeritus meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma,and was not involved with the project.

弗雷德·卡尔是俄克拉荷马大学的名誉气象学教授，他并未参与该项目。

Carr says the United States has a similar high-resolution forecasting system,"but it’s just for the U.S.

卡尔称，美国也有类似的高分辨率预报系统，“但它仅适用于美国，因为这需要花费大量的计算机时间。

because it takes so much computer time.

因为电脑时间太长了。

To do it for the whole globe is a pretty significant achievement."

在全球范围内做到这一点是项非常重要的成就。”

Carr added that it is possible to quickly collect observations from radar,airplanes and surface measurements in the United States.

卡尔补充道，在美国可以通过雷达、飞机和地面测量快速采集观测数据。

But he said it is not clear how IBM gets information from the other 98% of the world.

但是，目前尚不清楚IBM是如何从世界其他98％的地区获取信息的。

Carr said he believes there will be problems in getting information,so “sometimes those forecasts aren’t going to be very accurate.”

卡尔称，他认为获取信息将会遇到问题，因此“有时这些预报可能不会很准确。”

Users will be able to decide for themselves.

用户将能够自行决定（是否应用此系统）。

The system now operates on the Weather.com website and The Weather Channel’s application program for smartphones.

该系统目前在Weather.com网站以及智能手机上的Weather Channel应用程序上运行。

In the future,IBM hopes to improve its forecasts by collecting information from atmospheric pressure sensors used in such phones.

将来，IBM希望通过从此类手机中使用的大气压传感器收集信息以提高其预报水平。

These sensors improve the precision of global positioning system, or GPS, technology.

这些传感器可以提高全球定位系统（GPS技术）的精确度。

For example, they can help fitness tracking instruments measure how many steps a user has climbed.

例如，它们可以帮助健身跟踪工具计算用户的爬台阶数。

IBM said it is not currently using this information but plans to offer users the chance to choose it.

IBM表示，公司目前未使用此信息，但计划为用户提供此选择。

Some privacy activists and governments have criticized technology companies for collecting this kind of information.

一些隐私权激进分子和政府批评科技公司收集此类信息的行为。

The city of Los Angeles,California has brought a case against IBM for improperly using location information from Weather Channel app users.

加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市已经起诉IBM，称其不正当地使用Weather Channel应用程序上的用户位置信息。