English Learning 20200208

Word

W1.forego [fɔːˈɡəʊ]

 

v.先行，在……前面，发生在……之前；放弃，摒弃；拒绝;

Keen skiers are happy to forego a summer holiday to go skiing.

More and more Americans are choosing to forego traditional university degrees in favor of(P6) self-learning.

 

 

Phrese

P1.take a year off

休息一年/休学一年

In 2020, we decided to take a year off.

P2.conduct a survey

进行一项调研

It's about a survey conducted by our friends at HackerRank.

P3.break down the results

分成若干部分，拆开，拆解

I'm going to break down the results that I think are most relevant to new developers here.

P4.wear many hats

身兼多职，扮演多种角色

Smaller companies rely more heavily on generalists(S2). They bring on lots of full-stack developers who can wear many hats.

P5.at the expense of 

以…为代价; 以牺牲…的利益为代价;

This usually comes at the expense of dedicated front-end and back-end developers.

P6.in favor of  

有利于，交付给，以…为受益人; 赞同，支持;

More and more Americans are choosing to forego traditional university degrees in favor of self-learning.

P7.It's heartening to do

做……令人振奋不已

It's heartening to see more and more employers who are bringing on fully self-taught developers in addition to university graduates.

It is heartening to see that the environment has improved a lot after several decades’ efforts.

hearten [ˈhɑːtn]  v.激励; 鼓励;

heartening [ˈhɑːtnɪŋ]

Heartening reports of victories are pouring in. 可喜的胜利消息不断传来。

 

Sentence

S1.Smaller companies consider full-stack developers(S3) more important. Larger companies are more likely to want specialists(S2).

small company 小公司

larger company 大型公司

S2.Larger companies allow for more specialization.

specialization 专门化；特殊化；特化作用（专业人才，精通某一项技能）

specialist(S1) n.专家

generalist(P4) n.（有多方面知识和经验的）通才；多面手

S3.Most hiring managers at all sized companies reported prioritized front-end, back-end, or full-stack developers.

front-end developer 前端网页开发人员

back-end develper 后台开发人员

full-stack developers 全栈开发人员

S4.Only about 30% of hiring managers considered it a higher priority to fill roles like: DevOps Engineering、Data Scientist、QA Engineer

DevOps Engineering 运维开发工程师

Data Scientist 数据科学家

QA Engineer 测试工程师

 

参考文章

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/computer-programming-skills-2020-survey-developers-hiring-managers-hackerrank/