VOA 商务英语：第6课

Lesson 6

　　Dialog 1:

　　New word: memory（内存），storage（存储空间）,application（应用程序）

　　M: In my research on the net, I learned one thing.
　　Ｆ：What's that?
　　M: You can never have enough memory. （You =one 表泛指）
　　F: That works for（=goes for=适用） both people and computers.
　　M: design software takes a lot of computer memory.
　　F：Most computer applications take enormous amount.
　　M: But especially design software. Graphic files are huge.
　　F: So you need a lot of memory.

　　Q: Why do designers need a lot of memory?
　　A: design software takes a lot of memory.

　　Dialog 2:

　　Back up file（备用文件），disk 磁盘 crash（死机）

　　M: and storage, I need a lot of disk space to store those files
　　F: and to back them up（备份,动词）.
　　M: Right, if the computer crashes, I don't want to lose my work.
　　F: So you need a lot of storage on your computer,
　　M: And some back up storage device.
　　F: sure, you need to back up copies of your files
　　M: once my computer crashed, and I lost all my work. I had no back-up copies
　　F: No back up copies? Err, you only do that once.

　　Q: Why are back up copied important?
　　A: In case you lose files.

　　Dialog 3:

　　shareware link （ 共享软件连接） ,newsgroup（网络论坛）

　　M: Isn't there shareware links available to help you back up files
　　F: sure! you can pull down（download） applications from a shareware site
　　M: I think my browser（浏览器） has a list of shareware links.
　　M: It must. Point your browsers to one of these links. （表示轻而易举）
　　M: What about the newsgroups on shareware.
　　F: There must be newsgroups on shareware（表推断肯定）
　　M: There are newsgroups on everything.
　　F: cover all bases（留意一切，源于棒球运动）.Looking every corner of the net.

　　Q: What is Mr. Hyde looking for to help him back up files?
　　A: shareware

　　Small talk:（拒绝帮忙）

　　Q：Could you help me?
　　A: Sorry/unfortunately/I'd like to, but I can't.