}                Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, sailed into New York Harbour in 1524 and named it Angouleme. He described it as ‘a very agreeable situation located within two small hills in the midst of which flowed a great river.Though Verrazano is by no means considered to be a great explorer, his name will probably remain immortal, for on November 21st, 1964, the longest suspension bridge in the world was named after him.

}                By no means:/by all means

   这两个的意思是相对的，看一下例句。 

   A:Shall I call you to let you know about the next meeting?
B: By all means.

   A: 下一次开会的时候我要不要打电话给你。回答相当与“sure”。

}                Internet Explorer:
IE → browsers → Firefox  /Netscape  /Safari

  我们都知道Windows用的浏览器：IE，即是internet explorer。IE 是一种browsers浏览器。浏览器不仅只有IE一种，还有Firefox  /Netscape  /Safari ，这是不同公司出的浏览器。                                                                          

}                Browse:

  I’m just looking.

  I’m just browsing.

  I’m good.

  I’m ok.

   因为browse本身就是浏览的意思，那么当你去商店买东西，售货员可能会走过来问你说有没有什么需要帮忙的，这时你可以用上面的话回答他，表示你还在看，都是同样的意思。
                                                                         

}                I’ll shop around.             

    I’ll do some comparison shopping.

    如果说你想再到处看看，或到别家看看，做些比较，就可以这样说。

}                Probably:

   作为副词，有这样的用法：
That’s probably it.

   这里就是That’s it 加上probably表达这样的一个意义。我有一次修车刷卡的时候，卡没有刷过去，可能是电话线的问题，当时那个technician 就说，可能是电话占线。我说： That’s probably it. 他说，yeah,然后就不知道怎么接了。                                                                       

   That’s pretty much it.   (Health Economics)

   这句话是差不多的意思。pretty much和very much 意思不一样。有一次我上课的时候（这门课叫做Health Economics）， 老师说昨天有一个很大的新闻，有没有人能够告诉什么跟咱们现在讲的和 Health Economics有关的。我对在网上看到的烟草业将来要对人们的健康负责个这条新闻有点印象，便说了两句。老师就说That’s pretty much it. 另外还有下面这一句：                      

    That’s all there is to it.
这句话的意思是，关于这件事就这么多了，该说的都说了。

}                Immortal:

    不朽。中文常说的‘一失足成千古恨’就是——
one mistake and pay for eternity

}                Suspension:

     这里我要说的是国外大学的 dishonesty policy对作弊的惩罚。 有这样几种——
plagiarism                                      
probation   breach probation / break the law          suspension                                                                     expulsion

     最常见的作弊是plagiarism这个词。 Plagiarism是抄袭，考试时抄袭要收到惩罚，特别是写作业剽窃别人的思想，都要受到惩罚。

      各种各样的作弊惩罚分为三个级别。 probation   breach probation / break the law 是留校察看；另外一个是suspension停学；最严重的是expulsion开除；如果你已经被probation了，然后又犯错，就是breach probation ，犯法是break the law，是breach，这两个动词不一样。两者是不一样的。

}                The Verrazano Bridge, which was designed by Othmar Ammann, joins Brooklyn to Staten Island. It has a span of 4,260 feet. The bridge is so long that the shape of the earth had to be taken into account by its designer.

}                Span：
life span (life expectancy  longevity)

    这几个词组都带有寿命的意思。

}                Span tag / div tag →inline level /block level
 span tag和div tag这两个是相对的，这是html里边的标签，在html里面最重要的就是明白这个tag。 span tag和div tag的区别在于，一个是inline level，一个是block level，

}                Designer：
Graphic designer
(photoshop/ fireworks/ illustrator)
Graphic designer平面设计师。（photoshop/ fireworks/ illustrator)这几个软件都差不多。

}                Programmer→ Eric Smith

    网络主要有要么是programmer 编程师、程序员，要么是上面的graphic designer。一个是主管编程，一个是主管平面设计。有一次我看一个访谈，访问GOOGLE的CEO Eric Smith，问他：其他搜索引擎说了一些要跟GOOLE竞争的话，你怎么回应？，Eric Smith 是这样说的:

“First of all, it doesn’t take words, it takes programmers. ”

     首先我要说的是，不是你说什么就是什么，而是你有什么样的程序员。

}                Two great towers support four huge cables. The towers are built on immense underwater platforms made of steel and concrete. The platforms extend to a depth of over 100 feet under the sea. These alone took sixteen months to build. Above the surface of the water, the towers rise to a height of nearly 700 feet. They support the cables from which the bridge has been suspended. Each of the four cables contains 26,108 lengths of wire.

}                Alone ：
The CPU alone cost me 200 bucks.
我买了一台电脑，仅CPU就花了我两百块。

}                Wire：
wireless / codeless

   无线。将来就是wireless的时代。

}                It has been estimated that if the bridge were packed with cars, it would still only be carrying a third of its total capacity. However, size and strength are not the only important things about this bridge. Despite its immensity, it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designer’s dream to create ‘an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible’.

}                Estimated：
Overestimated / underestimated

       高估             低估
Out of control / under control
 不在控制之内      在控制之内

    这里要注意，不是所有对应的词前面的介词都是一样的。

}                Capacity：
elevator capacity

    电梯承受重量的能力

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