Will的美语课

这一次，Apple都给我们带来了哪些惊喜？

September 16, 2014 by Will

原文节选自：nydailynews.com

【导读】必须承认，至少iPhone 6, plus, Apple Watch的外观并不如我想象中惊艳。但是plus的5.5英寸Retina屏幕和A8处理器确实让人心动，而Apple Watch的Crown，也许不失为一个聪明的设计？

Apple finally joins the big-phone party. With the 5.5-inch display on the new iPhone 6 Plus and the 4.7-inch screen on the iPhone 6 — not to mention（更别提） a raft of new under-the-hood（底层、内部）features — Apple fans no longer have to suffer from screen envy.

苹果终于加入了大屏手机的阵营。新的iPhone 6 plus配备5.5英寸显示屏，iPhone6则配有4.7英寸屏，更有N多新增内嵌功能，苹果粉们再也不用对大屏幕羡慕嫉妒恨了。

And just to make the party livelier, Apple unveiled（公布） its first series of smartwatches: the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Sport and the golden Apple Watch Edition — but you’ll have to wait at least until next year to see them.
更让人兴奋的是，苹果公布了其首批智能手表：苹果手表、苹果手表运动款、以及土豪金版苹果手表。但是你可能还需等到明年才能一睹其真容。

The big new iPhones will be available Sept. 19 — with preorders（预售） starting Sept. 12 — offer a major visual upgrade from the 4-inch displays on the iPhone 5c and 5s. They feature（特点是）Apple’s new, powerful 64-bit A8 processor and will run the new iOS 8 software, which will be available Sept. 17.
新iPhone将于9月19日发售，预售于9月12日启动，并对5c和5s的4英寸手机屏幕进行了重大升级。新手机的亮点包括：配备苹果强大的全新64位A8处理器、运行新的iOS 8操作系统（9月17日正式推出）。

With two-year plans（运营商合约）, the iPhone 6 Plus will sell for（以…价位出售） $299, $399 and $499 with 16, 64 and 128 gigabytes of user memory, respectively, while the iPhone 6 will retail for $199, $299 and $399 at the same memory levels.
iPhone 6 plus的2年合约机售价分别为299美元、399美元及499美元，对应16G、64G、128G内存。同样的内存配置下，iPhone 6售价分别为199美元、299美元、399美元。

The new iPhones, as well as the older iPhone 5, 5c and 5s, will work with the new Apple smartwatches. The unveiled wristwear（腕戴设备）includes usability features not seen in Android and other smartwatches seen to date. The screen is not only touch sensitive, but also detects（侦测） different levels of pressure. The crown — the small knob（柄） used for winding（拧发条） mechanical watches — is used to zoom the screen image when necessary.
新iPhone，以及此前的iPhone 5, 5c及5s将可与Apple智能手表协同工作。新发布的腕戴设备具有尚未在安卓及其他家智能手表上提供的可用性方面的新功能。手表的屏幕不仅支持触屏，还能侦测到不同级别的压力。可通过皇冠（机械表上用来拧发条的小钮）按需放大屏幕图像。

A key new feature of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and smartwatches is Apple Pay, a secure wireless payment system（支付系统） that lets users pay at retail locations by just tapping their devices on near-field communication, or NFC（近场通信）, receiver. It doesn’t actually store credit card or PIN numbers but instead creates a secure, one-time use authentication process using a special Secure Element（安全元件） chip embedded in the gadgets.
iPhone 6、iPhone 6 Plus、智能手表共有的一项关键特性是：Apple支付。这是一项安全的无线支付系统，用户可以通过近场通讯（NFC）在设备上轻点，即可完成零售支付。设备并不存储信用卡号或密码，而是通过设备内嵌的特殊安全元件芯片创建一个安全、一次性的用户认证进程。

马克.扎克伯格：Facebook为何与众不同？

September 16, 2014 by Will

I think the biggest difference between Facebook and other companies is how focused we are on our mission（使命）…Different companies care about different things. There are companies that care about, just really care about having the biggest market cap（市值）. Or there are companies that are really into（喜好） process or the way they do things. Hewlett Packard（惠普）, right? The thing that you always hear about them is “the HP Way”. Google, I think is very tied to their culture–They really love that. For us, it is the mission: building a company that makes the world more open and connected.The articulation（发音） of that has, I think, changed over time（随着时间）. But that’s really been, like, the belief the whole time（一直）.

–Huffington Post, May 14, 2012

我认为Facebook与其他公司相比，最大的不同点在于：我们专注于自己的使命。不同的公司关注的事情各不相同。有的公司关注，应该说是相当关注，在资本市场拥有最大的市值。而有的则非常热衷于流程，或者说做事的方式。比方说惠普，对吧？你听到关于惠普最多的事情就是：“惠普之道”。至于谷歌，我觉得它相当关注公司文化–他们对此真的很着迷。对我们而言，我们最关注的是使命：创建一家使世界更加开放、连接更为紧密的公司。随着时间的推移，可能对于使命的文字表述有所不同，但这的确是我们一直以来深信不疑的理念。

–赫芬顿邮报，2012年5月14日

如何用地道美语回敬那些出言不逊的人

December 30, 2018September 1, 2014 by Will

【英文台词】

“You arrested my client. He was here four hours, and you have no log with an out going call to me. All on the basis of a fabricated terrorism claim. Now if that’s not malicious, I don’t know what that is.”

“You can say what you want. You are a dirty lawyer, and now you are on my radar.”

“If I’m a dirty lawyer, then you are looking in the mirror.”

— Suits

【中文翻译】

“你拘捕了我的客户。他在这儿呆了4个小时，你也无法提供他曾向我打电话求助的记录。所谓的恐怖主义指控，都是凭空捏造。这如果不是你们恶意为之，那又是什么？”

“随你怎么说。你就是个贪腐的律师，我已经盯上你了。”

“如果我贪腐，那你和我也是一路货色。”

— 《金装律师》

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如何用地道美语表达：你需要接受他的不完美

April 27, 2019August 25, 2014 by Will

“He’s a good man, Scottie. But he’s not perfect. Sometimes you just have to take what you get, or walk away.”
— Suits

“他是个好男人，史考蒂，但他并不完美。有些时候，你不能过于挑剔，要不你就放弃。”
–《金装律师》

注：
“take what you get”，字面意思“给你什么，你就接受什么”，言下之意是：你不能太挑，太苛求。or walk away，否则你就走开，意思是要不你可以选择放弃。

像埃隆.马斯克（Elon Musk）那样思考，改变你的思维定势

January 9, 2020August 25, 2014 by Will

8月22日，SpaceX公司在德克萨斯州上空测试的火箭在空中以燃烧成火球告终，但这并不妨碍人们对该公司CEO埃隆.马斯克（Elon Musk）的仰慕和敬意，因为这次测试意味着人类在通向火星的征程上又迈出了一小步。

埃隆.马斯克是横跨多领域的杰出企业家，被誉为“跨界天才”，也是电影《钢铁侠》的创作原型。他先后创立的4家公司：Paypal（贝宝）, SpaceX, Tesla（特斯拉）, SolarCity，无一不是行业翘楚，并将对世界产生深远影响。他被认为是乔布斯之后的下一位创新领袖。

今天，Will为大家精选了埃隆.马斯克的15句经典语录，咱们一起看看这位奇才的思维方式和其他人有什么不同：

1.I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

我认为平凡人也能选择做到不平凡。

2.I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

我不会只满足于做一个旁观者，我要置身其中，参与改变。

3.I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

我觉得最具价值的一条建议是：经常思考你能否把事情做得更好，不断自我反省。

4.When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

大学时代，我就希望参与做那些可以改变世界的事情。

5.When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

当一件事情足够重要时，即便缺乏胜算，你也要去做。

6.It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

只要你能小心照看好你的篮子，把所有的鸡蛋放进去也未尝不可。

7.Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

有些人不喜欢变革，但如果不这么做的后果是灾难性的，你应当拥抱变革。

8.I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

我出生于非洲。我之所以来加州，是因为在这里，新技术可以得到推广应用，而且，这里没有具有威胁性的竞争对手。

9.People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

当人们清楚目标是什么，以及为什么要达成这个目标时，他们的工作会卓有成效。每天早上，人们应该期待着上班，享受工作，这一点很重要。

10.When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

当年亨利福特生产出便宜、可靠的汽车时，人们说：“不是吧？马车不也跑得挺好嘛？”福特把宝押在汽车上，他最终获得了成功。

11.The Tesla Roadster… it’s a two-seater sports car, very high performance…In fact, it’s beat any Ferrari or Aston Martin in acceleration. And it has more than twice the energy efficiency of a Prius.

特斯拉的Roadster…这是一款双座电动跑车，性能卓越，实际上，它的加速能力超过任何一辆法拉利或是阿斯顿.马丁。而它的节能性是普锐斯的两倍。

12.I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

我想在太空飞行，绝对的！那会是相当酷。我自己过去经常做一些冒险的事情，但是我现在有了孩子和家庭责任，因此我没法拿自己去冒风险了。那样做不明智。但是只要太空飞行变得切实可行，我一定会去尝试。

13.If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

如果人类不能在我有生之年登陆火星，我将会非常失望。

14.I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

我不会说我毫无畏惧。事实上，我希望我的恐惧感可以少一些，因为恐惧会让人无法集中精力，并且会彻底扰乱我的神经系统。

15.I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

人应当怀有一颗善心，我觉得这点至关重要。