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VOA慢速英语:30 Phrasal Verbs to Help You With Technology
短语讲解:
1. Many of those nouns grew out of phrasal verbs, as you will learn in this episode.
grow out of 产生自…; 从…发展
例句:Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
罪与罚本是同茎生。
2. Let’s go back to 1969, when the first verb sent over the Internet was a phrasal verb: log in.
send over 派遣,发送
例句:Then he would send over a plane ticket and a bit of money for the documents," Adjouma said.
回去后就把机票和办手续的钱寄过来。
3. To install new applications on the computer, users run a set up program.
set up 建立; 准备; 安排
例句:They set up many branches throughout the country.
他们在全国建立好多分公司。
4. Another verb that describes up-and-down movement on the screen is scroll up or scroll down.
scroll up 卷起来
例句:As you type, your old data will scroll up.
你打字的时候、资料会往上卷动。
scroll down 向下滚动; 向下卷动
例句:Scroll down to see the entire text.
翻滚一下使能看到整个文本。
5. A user who stores many large files will soon run out of room on the computer, so keeping files on an extra hard drive is a good idea.
run out of 用完; 耗尽; 从…跑出
例句:The aircraft will run out of fuel in another hour.
飞机再过一小时燃料就将用完。
6. My parents used to print out their emails because they wanted to keep a permanent copy, and here is another new noun: a printout.
print out(计算机) 打出
例句:I need to print out the report.
我得印出这份报告。
7. A disaster could happen if the hacker wiped out, or erased all the information on a computer system.
wipe out 了结; (符号) 擦掉
例句:You must try to wipe out the memory of these terrible events.
你必须设法忘却这些可怕事件。
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