just take a moment

　　2017/11/23 

　　《just take a moment》這首英文歌真的很好聽，雖然聽不懂，可是音樂的旋律很好聽！

　　Computers have led to a third revolution for civilization, with the information revolution taking its place alongside the agriculture and the industrial revolutions.

　　revolution /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/  noun. (politics)  a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence or war.(一般指改變政治體制的)革命：

　　civilization /ˌsɪv.əl.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/  noun. (developed society) human society with its well developed social organizations, or the culture and way of life of society or country at a particular period in time. 文明社會；（特定時期社會或國家的）文明，文化。 

　計算機已經致使了文明的第三次革命，信息革命與農業革命和工業革命並肩而立。

　The resulting multiplication of humankind's intellectual strength and reach naturally has affected our everyday lives profoundly and changed the ways in which the search for new knowledge is carried out.

　multiplication table /mʌl.tɪ.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən ˌteɪ.bəl/ noun.  a list that shows the results of multiplying one number by a set of other numbers, usually from one to twelve, used especially by children at school 乘法表   一張表， 顯示一個數字與一個集合中的另外一個數字相乘的結果，一般是從一到十二，特別在學校被小學生使用。

　　profoundly /prəˈfaʊnd.li/ adverb. deeply or extremely  深入的、極度地

　　strength /streŋθ/ noun. (power)  the ability to do things that need a lot of physical or mental effort  體力；力量；實力；

　　由此產生的人類智力和力量的倍增天然深入地影響了咱們的平常生活，並改變了尋找新知識的方式。

　There is now a new vein of  scientific investigation, with computational scientists joining theoretical and experimental scientists in the exporation of new frontiers in astronomy, biology, chemistry, and physics, among others.

　　frontier /frʌn.tɪər/  noun. a border between two country. 國境、邊界；

　　vein / veɪn/  noun. a style or a temporary mood. 風格；情緒；

 　　astronomy, biology, chemistry, and physics,   天文學、生物學、化學和物理學；三種學科

　　如今有一個新的科學研究的脈絡，計算機科學家結合理論與實踐科學家在天文學、生物學、化學和物理學之間探索新的領域。

　　The computer revolution continues. Each time the cost of computing improves by another factor of 10, the opportunities for computers multiply. Applications that were economically infeasible suddenly become practical. In the recent past, the following applications were "computer science fiction."

　　計算機革命繼續。每次計算成本因其它緣由成10倍遞進增加，計算機的使用機率也成倍增長。過去在經濟上不可行的應用程序忽然變的切實可行。在最近的進去，如下的應用是「計算機科幻小說」

　　infeasible /ɪnˈfiː.zə.bəl/ adj. 不可行的、行不通的

• Computers in automobiles: Until microprocessors improved dramatically in price and performance in the early 1980s, computer control of cars was ludicrous. Today, computers reduce pollution, improve fuel efficiency via engine controls, and increase safety through blind spot warnings, lane departure warnings, moving object detection, and air bag inflation to protect occupants in a crash. 
• Cell phones: Who would have dreamed that advances in computer systems would lead to more than half of the plant having mobile phones, allowing person-to-person communication to almost anyone anywhere in the world?
• Human genome project: The cost of computer equipment to map and analyze human DNA sequences was hundreds of millions of dollars. It's unlikely that anyone would have considered this project had the computer costs been 10 to 100 times higher, as they would have been 15 to 25 years earlier. Moreover, costs continue to drop; you will soon be able to acquire your own genome, allowing medical care to be tailored to you. 
• World Wide Web: Not in existence at the time of the first edition of this book, the web has transformed our society. For many, the web has replaced libraries and newspapers.
• Search engines: As the content of the web grew in size and in value, finding relevant information became increasingly important. Today, many people rely on search engines for such a large part of their lives that it would be a hardship to go without them. 

　　Clearly, advances in this technology now affect almost every aspect of our society. Hardware advances have allowed programmers to create wonderfully useful software, which explains why computers are omnipresent. Today's science fiction suggests tomorrow's killer applications: already on their way are glasses that augment reality, the cashless society, and cars that can drive themselves.

 　　顯然，這項技術的進步如今幾科影響到咱們社會的方方面面。硬件方面性能的提升使得程序員可以建立很是有用的軟件，這就解釋爲何計算機無處不在。今天的科幻小說暗示了明日應用程序的終結者：在加強現實感方面已經透明化，無現金社會，無人駕駛汽車。

 　　automobiles / ´ɔ:təməbi:l/  noun. [c]  a car. 汽車

　　microprocessors /ˌmaɪ.krəʊˈprəʊ.ses.ər/  n. a part of a computer that controls its main operations. 微處理器

　　dramatically /drəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl.i /  adv. suddenly or obviously. 劇烈的，明顯的；Your life changes dramatically when you have a baby to take care. 有了孩子，你的生活會驟然發生巨大變化。 

　　ludicrous /ˈluː.dɪ.krəs/ adj. stupid or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed at 愚蠢好笑的；荒謬的；

　　blind spot /ˈblaɪnd ˌspɒt/ noun. (C usually sigular)  an area that are not able to see, especially the part of a road you can not see when you are driving, behind or slightly to one side of the car. 盲點；視線盲區；（尤指）駕車時的盲區

　　lane /lein/ noun. noun. (road) a narrow road in the countryside or in a town. 鄉間小路；小巷；小街；衚衕；

　　occupant /ˈɒk.jə.pənt /  noun.1.  a person who lives or works in a rooms or building 居住者； The person occupants were an Italian family. 先前居住的是意大利人。 2.  a person who is in a car, room, seat, place,  or position. 佔有人；佔用人； One of the occupants of the car was slightly injured. 有一位乘車者，受了輕傷。 

　　cell phone /ˈsel fəʊn/  noun.(c)  a phone that is connected to the phone system by radio instead of by a wire, and can be used anywhere where its signals can be received. 移動電化，手機；