【五月特训】研英翻译真题核心词组学习(2001年)
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In less than 30 years time the Star Trek holodeck will be a reality.Direct links between the brains nervous system and a computer will also create full sensory virtual environments，allowing virtual vacations like those in the film Total Recall.
（71）There will be television chat shows hosted by robots，and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend. （72）Children will play with dolls equipped with personality ers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools，relaxation will be in front of smell-television，and digital age will have arrived.
According to BT s futurologist，Ian Pearson，these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium（a period of 1000 years），when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life.
（73）Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds or key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine，including an extended life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs coming into use between now and 2040.
Pearson also predicts a breakthrough in computer-human links.“By linking directly to our nervous system， computers could pick up what we feel and，hopefully，simulate feeling too so that we can start to develop full sensory environments，rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck，”he says.（74）But that，Pearson points out，is only the start of man-machine integration:“It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.”
Through his research，Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted.However，there are still no forecasts for when faster-that-light travel will be available，or when human cloning will be perfected，or when time travel will be possible.But he does expect social problems as a result of technological advances.A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will，for example，cause problems in2010，while the arrival of synthetic lifelike robots will mean people may not be able to distinguish between their human friends and the droids.（75）And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder—kitchen rage.
2001年考研英语翻译 核心词组学习笔记
pollution monitor 污染监测器
digital age 数字时代
be regarded as…被当成是
piece together 拼合；汇聚；综合
hundreds of 数以百计的
around the world 全世界
key breakthroughs and discoveries 重大突破与发现
take place 发生
point out 指出
lead to 导致
home appliances 家用电器
result in 导致
man-machine integration 人机一体化
personality 个性，性格
computers with in built personalities 个性内置的计算机
rather than 而不是
relaxation 休闲、放松、娱乐、消遣
smell television 气味电视机
digital age 数字化时代
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