新概念英語第四冊
Lesson 10 Silicon valley
1 . Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office -- spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S.a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast.米德預言發明者可以在辦公室用一個週末的時間生產了完美的、功能很強的、按客戶需求設計的芯片 -- 造就新一代從汽車間起家的技術人員，在把產品推向市場方面使美國把它的外國對手們打個措手不及。
2 . engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures.因此，工程技術人員可能很塊就可充分發揮他們的想像力，而不會因失敗而造成經濟上的損失。
3 . Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.硅谷許多公司中工程技術人員的大多數是東方人和亞裔美國人。
4 . And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges.中國、韓國、菲律賓和印度的工程師一批批地從加州的大學畢業。
5 . Before it becomes a retirement village,在硅谷變成一個退休村之前，
6 . As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars,由於製造一塊芯片的時間已縮短至幾天，費用也只有幾百美元，
7 . For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market.比如說，亞歷克斯。奧，一位來自香港的斯坦福大學博士，已經在台灣建廠，對日本在內存條市場上近似壟斷的局面提出了挑戰。
8 . Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.它很可能成為建立全球商業的一個教學場地。
9 . notes there are now work-stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.注意到，現在有些計算機工作站使工程技術人員可以在他們的辦公桌上設計、試驗和生產芯片，就像一位編輯在蘋果機上編出一份時事通訊一樣。
10 . Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.技術的發展趨勢有可能把硅谷重新推向未來。
11 . As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets.作為新掘起一代的帶頭人，亞裔發明家可以憑借他們在習慣和語言上的優勢，與關鍵的太平洋沿岸市場建立起更加牢固的聯繫。
12 . 'We really thrive on anarchy. '「我們確實是靠這種無政府狀態發展起來的。
13 . Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology,卡弗。米德 -- 集成電路的一位先驅，加州理工學院的計算機教授 --
14 . 'We're got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes.「我們有更多的汽車間，那裡有許多聰明人，」米德說。
15 . And on Asians.」 靠的是亞洲人。