用计算机英语描述云计算,BBC新闻重点讲解:计算机的云计算(2009-6-16)

1.Well then that Mr. Studio manager on the mixing desk, let's open up the theater and hear from Bill Thomson in our Cambridge studio.

open up展开, 给...开刀, 打开, 开发, 开办, 展示, 开始

例句：If the agreement is to succeed, the EU must open up its markets.

如能达成协议，欧盟必须开放其市场。

2. The idea of all our information held out there in the data cloud rather than just sitting as it traditionally has been on our desktops in front of us.

hold out伸出, 提出, 提供, 坚持, 支持, 维持

例句：Hold out for better pay and conditions.

坚决要求提高工资并改善工作条件。

rather than与其...不如...

例句：I prefer to meet you in the office rather than a public place.

我希望与你在办公室会面，而不是在公共场合。

3.Does SUN still have a role to play in the cloud?

play a role起作用

例句：Biological factors play a major role in the development of mental illness.

生物因素在精神疾病的发展过程中起着很重要作用。

4. Three or four years ago I was talking to their chief scientist, a guy called John Gage, and these were one of the issues he was aware of even then and he was talking about ways to build compact and powerful data centers.

be aware of知道；意识到；察觉到

例句：I'm quite aware of the overtones of what he was saying: the chief engineer should also be held responsible.

我懂得他的弦外之音：这事儿总工程师也有责任。

5.And finally, Bill, there was talk there at the end of the interview that Scott McNealy is really into the whole idea of open source software isn't he, as it was?

at the end of在结尾

例句：I met Susan at the bank and she was standing at the end of the line.

我在银行遇见了苏珊，她当时正站在队尾。