慢速英语apple watch
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By VOA
09 March, 2015
Tim Cook,
the CEO of Apple, showed off their newest device,
the Apple Watch.
Mr. Cook said it is the
The Apple Watch is a miniature, or very small,
computer a person wears
on his or her wrist.
There will be three models with straps to attach
them
to your wrist. An Apple Watch will be
able to do many of the same things
as an
iPhone. It will show email, texts, news, health
readings and other
information. These apps
will be customized for the watch. It will be
different than just seeing what is on your
phone.
Like a phone, you will be able to
receive calls on your wrist. Mr. Cook
smiled
while describing this.
five years old,he said.
day is finally s ago, a comic
strip hero named
Dick Tracy talked into his wrist watch, but until
now,
that has only been something possible in
the future.
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks
about the new Apple Watch during an Apple event,
in San Francisco, California, March 9, 2015.
(AP PhotoEric Risberg)
Mr. Cook also said it
is intimate.
and send your heartbeat to another
person with an Apple Watch.
is an incredibly
intimate way to tell someone that you are thinking
about them,
The crown of the Apple Watch is
what sets this Apple product apart from
other
companies' smartwatches. Like the touch screen on
smartphones, the
crown controls what you can
do. By turning the crown on an Apple Watch,
one can zoom in and out, to look at a map, for
example.
The watches will be available in
stores in late April. They will be sold
at
different prices, beginning at $$349. Mr. Cook
called the high-end model,
the one made of
18-karat gold,
will be thousands of dollars.
for the Apple Edition Watch,
of
The Wonder of Tech. price is quite steep for
technology that may
be obsolete in a
year.
Apple hopes to excite consumers so they
will want to buy and wear computers
on their
bodies. The first smartwatches from Samsung, Sony
and LG have
not been selling well. Only five
million smartwatches were sold last year,
according to Strategy Analytics. Another
wearable computer, Google Glass
eyewear, is no
longer on the market.
Critics say one problem
with Apple Watch is that you need an iPhone on
your body, or nearby, to make this watch fully
functional. Like a phone,
it will also need to
be charged each night. It remains to be seen
whether
people really want to carry both a
smartphone and a smartwatch.
Apple has
overcome skeptics before. Both computer tablets
and smartphones
were not popular until Apple
released the iPad and iPhones.
The
announcement today comes after last week's news
that Apple will
replace AT&T on the Dow Jones
Industrial Average. The Dow Jones index
includes the top 30 companies representing the
U.S. economy and markets.
I'm Anne Ball.
Anne Ball reported and wrote this story for
Learning English. Hai Do was
the editor.
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Words in This Story
gadget
–
n
. a small, useful device
miniature
–
adj
. very small or tiny
wrist –
n
. the part of your body where your hand
joins your arm
customized –
adj
.
something that has been changed to fit the needs
of
a person or business, etc.
intimate –
adj
. having a very close and warm and
friendly relationship
obsolete –
adj.
replaced by something newer
skeptic –
n
. a person who questions or doubts
something or someone
Tim Cook, the CEO
of Apple, showed off their newest device, the
Apple Watch. Mr. Cook said
it is the
苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)展示了该公司最新的设备Apple
Watch。库克先生表示，这是苹果
有史以来创造的最个性的设备。
The Apple
Watch is a miniature, or very small, computer a
person wears on his or her wrist.
There will
be three models with straps to attach them to your
wrist. An Apple Watch will be
able to do many
of the same things as an iPhone. It will show
email, texts, news, health
readings and other
information. These apps will be customized for the
watch. It will be
different than just seeing
what is on your phone.
Apple
Watch是一台用户戴到手腕上的微型电脑，它将有配备不同表带的三款产品。Apple Watch将能<
br>实现大部分类似iPhone手机的功能。它能显示电子邮件、短信、新闻、健康数据和其它信息。这些程
序
是为Apple Watch专门定制，它们会和IPhone手机上看到的有所不同。
Like a phone, you will be able to receive
calls on your wrist. Mr. Cook smiled while
describing
this.
Decades ago, a comic
strip hero named Dick Tracy talked into his wrist
watch, but until now,
that has only been
something possible in the future.
就像一台手机，你能够在手
腕上接听电话。库克先生谈到这里时微微一笑。他说，“我从5岁开始一直想要
做到这点，这一天终于来
临了。”几十年前，一位名为迪克·特雷（Dick
Tracy）的连环漫画英雄人物对着
腕表说话，但截至目前，那只能是未来才有可能的事情。
Mr. Cook also said it is
to another person
with an Apple Watch.
库克先生还表示它“极其亲密。”他说，你可以捕捉并发送你的心跳到另一用户的Apple
Watch。
他说，“这是一种告诉他人你在想他们的极其亲密的方式，我希望有人
会给我发一段。”
The crown of the Apple Watch is what
sets this Apple product apart from other
companies'
smartwatches. Like the touch screen
on smartphones, the crown controls what you can
do.
By turning the crown on an Apple
Watch, one can zoom in and out, to look at a map,
for
example.
Apple Watch的表冠将这种苹果产品与其它公司的智能
手表区分开。跟智能手机的触摸屏一样，表冠决定
你能做什么。通过转动Apple
Watch上的表冠可以实现缩放功能，例如在查看地图时缩放地图。
The watches
will be available in stores in late April. They
will be sold at different prices,
beginning at
$$349. Mr. Cook called the high-end model, the one
made of 18-karat gold,
dropping beautiful.
这种手表将于4月下旬以不同价格在苹果商店开始销售，起价349美元。库克先生称高端机型由18K金
制成，“漂亮得令人惊叹。”其标价将达到数千美元。
Watch,
quite
steep for technology that may be obsolete in a
year.
The Wonder of
Tech网站的科技博客卡罗琳·尼坎德·莫尔（Carolyn Nicander Mohr）写道，“对我
来
说最大的意外是苹果Edition版手表价格区间上升到了1万美元。该价格对一种可能在一年内过
时的科技
产品来说太高了。”
Apple hopes to excite
consumers so they will want to buy and wear
computers on their bodies.
The first
smartwatches from Samsung, Sony and LG have not
been selling well. Only five
million
smartwatches were sold last year, according to
Strategy Analytics. Another wearable
computer,
Google Glass eyewear, is no longer on the market.
苹果公司希望激发消费者，这样他们就会想要购买和佩戴这种随身电脑。三星、索尼和LG的第一款智能
手表销量都不好。根据Strategy
Analytics的数据，去年只卖出了500万台智能手表。另一款穿戴式电
脑谷歌眼镜已经退市。
Critics say one problem with Apple Watch is
that you need an iPhone on your body, or nearby,
to make this watch fully functional. Like a
phone, it will also need to be charged each night.
It remains to be seen whether people really
want to carry both a smartphone and a
smartwatch.
批评人士表示，Apple Watch的问题之一
在于手机必须在身上或在附近才能实现这种手表的全部功能。和
手机一样它也需要每天晚上充电。人们是
否真的需要同时携带智能手机和智能手表尚有待观察。
Apple has overcome
skeptics before. Both computer tablets and
smartphones were not
popular until Apple
released the iPad and iPhones.
苹果公司之前已经征服了质疑者。
在苹果公司发布iPad和iPhone之前，平板电脑和智能手机都并不流行。
The
announcement today comes after last week's news
that Apple will replace AT&T on the
Dow Jones
Industrial Average. The Dow Jones index includes
the top 30 companies
representing the U.S.
economy and markets.
在今天发布会之前的上个星期，有消息称苹果将取代AT
&T公司进入道琼斯工业平均指数。道琼斯指数包
括了美国经济和市场排名前三十名的公司。
I'm Anne Ball.
我是安妮·波尔（Anne Ball）。(