实战口语情景对话 第420期:Computers 电脑

重点讲解：
1. speed up
（使）（某一过程或活动）加快；
eg. Federalists are convinced this will speed up european integration.
联邦主义者相信这会加速欧洲整合的速度。
eg. Nothing I do or say to the insurers seems to speed up this process.
无论我对保险公司做了或说了什么，似乎都不会加快他们办事的进程。
2. be incompatible with
不能和谐相处的；不协调的；不一致的；
eg. Late hours are incompatible with health.
熬夜则不会健康。
eg. That's not the only time I've found my education incompatible with real life.
我不仅一次发现我所受的教育与现实生活是有很大矛盾的。
3. break down
（机器或车辆）出毛病，损坏；
eg. Men are left idle when machines break down.
机器坏了时，工人们便无事可做了。
eg. If the car should break down on the way, you would have to walk back.
万一汽车中途抛锚，你就得走回来。
4. all in all
总的说来；从各方面来说；总之；
eg. We both thought that all in all it might not be a bad idea.
我们两人都认为总的说来它或许不是个坏主意。
eg. All in all, it appeared that a pretty depressing summer awaited Jones.
总之，等待琼斯的似乎是一个相当令人沮丧的夏天。