CRI听力:Yearender 2011: Imaginative Consumer Electronics

短语讲解：

1. There'll be a new iPad, there'll be new Samsung tablets, there'll be I think possibly interest from other manufacturers is petering out because they found they can't take on the iPad.

peter out逐渐消失
例句：By midday their enthusiasm had petered out.
他们的热情到中午就烟消云散了。
take on披上，穿上，戴上；呈现(面貌等)；具有(某种性质、特征等)
例句：The campus has taken on a new look.
校园换了新貌。

2. But throughout 2011 the phenomenon has failed to capture the wider public's imagination.

fail to未能…
例句：He failed to pass the examination through carelessness.
由于粗心, 他考试没及格。

3. By and large, where people are buying 3D TVs it's mainly just because they're just buying a new telly because they need or want a new telly and it just happens to be 3D.

by and large总的来说, 大体而言
例句：By and large, women can bear pain better than men.
一般来说, 女人比男人更能忍受痛苦。
happen to碰巧
例句：I happen to be more than usually hard up. 
我近来正巧手头更紧了。 

4. At the moment the problem remains that there's nothing decent to watch in 3D and that problem isn't going to go away any time soon.

go away消失；停止，停息
例句：The pain will go away soon.
疼痛马上会减轻。

5. The communications technology industry is preparing for the wider roll out of the fourth generation network-the 4G.

prepare for (使)为…作准备
例句：Right now they are preparing themselves for the Olympic Games.
眼下他们正在为参加奥运会作准备。
roll out大量生产
例句：Our factory rolls out 8,000 bottles of beer every day.
我们工厂每天生产8 000 瓶啤酒。