精聽第28期答案及原文解析
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1.Were other of your contemporaries equally interested in the business, or did you find yourself unusual among the groups?
2.We were always creating funny company names and having people send us their product literature
3.So, it these companies making smaller computers that were very fascinating to us.
4.How did the faculty respond to your interest outside of your curriculum compared to your interest in your own studies?
5.I was relieved from some classes, Math in particular, because I』d read ahead
中英對照
Interest in computers was cultivated in middle school
中學時候就對計算機興趣濃厚
Were other of your contemporaries equally interested in the business,
你周圍的同齡人也同樣對商業感興趣嗎？
or did you find yourself unusual among the groups?
還是你與眾不同？
Well，when I went to Lakeside School, I was about 12 years old.
嗯，我12歲的時候進入湖濱中學學習。
I started there in seventh grade.
我從七年級開始讀。
That was kind of a change for me.
那對我來說是一個新的環境。
It is a private boys』 school. Very strict.
湖濱中學是一所私立男校，管理非常嚴格。
At first, I really didn』t like the environment.
開始的時候，我真的不喜歡那種環境。
I did eventually find some friends there,
後來，我交到了一群好朋友，
some of who had the same sort of interest, like reading business magazines and Fortune.
其中的一些跟我有同樣的愛好，比如閱讀商業雜誌或者《財富》。
We were always creating funny company names and having people send us their product literature.
我們經常起一些有趣的公司名字，讓別人給我們發他們的產品資料。
Trying to think about how business worked.
我們總是思考商業是如何運行的。
And in particular, looking at computer companies and what was going on with them.
而且特別關注一些電腦公司的發展經營狀況。
What companies, in particular, did you like to follow?
你們會特別關注哪些公司？
The first computer we used was a GE time-sharing system.
我們用的第一台電腦採用的是GE分時系統。
It was connected over a phone line.
它通過一條電話線連接。
Actually, the school couldn』t afford a full phone line,
事實上，學校並不能給我們提供一根獨立的電話線，
so someone in the offices had a switch where you could take over the phone line.
因此，需要在辦公室里通過終端機轉換。
It was an ASR-33 Teletype with paper tape connected up to a GE computer.
那是一台ASR-33型號的終端機，通過紙帶接到一台GE電腦上。
But, very quickly，we found out about PDP-8s, and eventually got one loaned to us.
但是，很快我們發現了PDP-8S，並最終租到了一台。
And then eventually, Data General Nova got loaned to us.
最終我們租用了通用數據公司的新星開發操作系統。
So, it these companies making smaller computers that were very fascinating to us.
所以，主要是這些製造小型計算機的公司吸引我們。
Joining all the user groups.
我們加入到使用者的行列中。
DEC had one called the DECUS User Group.
DEC有一個叫DECUS的用戶群。
Getting on every mailing list.
把自己的電子郵件地址加入到他們的電郵資料庫中，
In Datamation they had these bingo cards where you could check everything you were interested in.
他們會通過資料庫自動發送各種賓戈卡片，你可以由此找到自己感興趣的東西。
So, we just put our name down and checked everything in there,
因此，我們填上姓名，選擇全部選項，
and tried to learn about the world of computing.
我們想了解整個計算機世界。
How did the faculty respond to your interest outside of your curriculum6 compared to your interest in your own studies?
相比你的學習生活而言，老師們對你的課餘愛好怎麼看？
Well, I was relieved7 from some classes,
嗯，有一些課我可以不去上，
Math in particular, because I』d read ahead.
尤其是數學，因為我之前已經會了。
So, I had quite a bit of free time.
所以我有很多時間可以自己支配。
When the Mother』s Club which did this rummage8 sale,
當母親倶樂部通過義賣籌集到錢，
got the money for this Teletype and a certain amount of time to buy computer time,
來支付終端機和電腦使用時間的費用時，
it was a question of who was going to figure this thing out?
這時出現問題該由誰來解決呢？
重點單詞積累：
1 cultivated
a.有教養的，有修養的，文雅的；耕耘的
參考例句：
The land around here has never been cultivated. 這一帶的土地從未開墾過。
These cultivated individuals have been imbued with a sense of social purpose. 這些有教養的人滿懷著社會責任感。
2 loaned
v.借出，貸與（尤指錢）( loan的過去式和過去分詞 )；出借（貴重物品給博物館等）
參考例句：
I have loaned his bicycle. 我把他的自行車給借出去了。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
The ground was loaned out for numerous events including pop concerts. 場地被借用來搞過無數活動，包括流行音樂會。 來自辭典例句
3 user
n.用戶，使用者
參考例句：
The company is the biggest user of oil.該公司是最大的石油用戶。
The umbrella keeps the rains off the user.雨傘使撐傘人免受雨淋。
4 computing
n.計算
參考例句：
to work in computing 從事信息處理
Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在計算機尚未普及的時代（約1980年），他們就創辦了軟體公司。
5 faculty
n.才能；學院，系；(學院或系的)全體教學人員
參考例句：
He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有學習外語的天賦。
He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰當的時候說恰當的話的才智。
6 curriculum
n.課程，（學校等的）全部課程
參考例句：
Is German on your school"s curriculum?你們學校有德語課嗎？
The English curriculum should stress both composition and reading.英語課程對作文和閱讀應同樣重視。
7 relieved
a.如釋重負的
參考例句：
You"ll be relieved to know your jobs are safe. 現在知道你們的工作保住了，可以放心了。
Your coming relieved me of the bother of writing a long letter. 你來了，省去我寫長信的麻煩了。
8 rummage
v./n.翻尋，仔細檢查
參考例句：
He had a good rummage inside the sofa.他把沙發內部徹底搜尋了一翻。
The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.老太太開始在口袋裡摸索，找她的眼鏡。
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