摘要:
科学技术中存在各种各样的系统,例如计算机中的软件系统和硬件系统,逻辑系统和物理系统.一个系统又细分为若干子系统.系统是由若干部分组成的,因此描述整体与部分的关系,在科技英语中用得很多.描述部分与整体的关系可以从两个不同的角度进行,即由部分组成整体;由整体划分为部分.由下面两例可以看出两个不同角度的描述又常常是结合进行的.(1)Ofen a register that holds a number is dividedinto two subregisters——one cell to hold the sign bitand the remaining cells to hold the magnitude of thenumber.The contents of a register,when treated bythe computer as a single unit,is often called a word.Words are usually subdivided into bytes consisting nor-mally of 8 bits.The contents of a register may also bedivided into fields and each field contain specified char-
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