聊一聊蘋果發(fā)布會中的英文

剛剛看完了蘋果發(fā)布會的回放，稍作整理，和大家一起從中學(xué)點英文。如果你還沒有看的話，可以去官方網(wǎng)站看一看，注意一下我在本文中提到的地方，順便學(xué)點英文。

 

 

1. 在發(fā)布會開始前，蘋果CEO庫克向受到颶風(fēng)影響的人致辭，他說：

Our hearts go out to all of the people whose lives have been disrupted by Hurrican Irma and Hurricane Harvey. You are in our thoughts. We send you our strength. You are in our prayers.

our hearts go out to的意思是“深感同情”;“you are in our thoughts/prayers”表示我(們)會為你祈禱，我們與你同在。這兩句話都是用來安慰別人。例如：You are in our thoughts and prayers. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

 

 

2. 形容詞

發(fā)布會中出現(xiàn)了許多形容產(chǎn)品的詞，有些詞會反復(fù)使用，例如incredible至少就出現(xiàn)了10次以上。類似的詞發(fā)布會中還用到了：

amazing, magical, extrodinary, powerful, wonderful, phenomenal, creative, gorgeous, state of the art, cool, intelligent, capable, awesome, innovative, intuitive...

intuitive在發(fā)布會中至少出現(xiàn)了3次，用它形容產(chǎn)品是想強調(diào)“容易上手”，不用看說明書就會用。在介紹iPhone X的時候演講者說的一段話可以解釋intuitive的意思：

It's that simple, that easy. It's incredibly smooth. Once you do it for the first time, you will know there has never been a better way.

3. 熟詞生義

整個發(fā)布會聽下來，除了一些專用名詞外并沒有太大困難。我特別注意到finish這個詞在發(fā)布會中多次出現(xiàn)，我沒有聽懂，例如：

We have a beautiful new gold alumnium finish along with silver and space gray.

Last year, we introduced a white ceramic watch. This year we are adding a ceranuc watch in a gorgeous gray finish.

It comes in silver, space gray, and a beautiful new gold finish.

我意識到這可能是一個熟詞生義的現(xiàn)象，查了下字典，發(fā)現(xiàn)它可以表示“拋光”-- the appearance of a surface, for example whether it is smooth or rough。

 

 

4. 學(xué)個萌表達

Hey, Tim I don't know what protocol is, but I would like to call dibs on fox for my favorite emoji.

聽到call dibs on這個表達，我想到了3年前寫的學(xué)習(xí)筆記。你看，學(xué)英語無非就是日積月累。在沒有確定屬于誰的情況下，誰先喊dibs就是誰的了，這個dibs可以理解為是rights, claims。

7. 和Tim Cook學(xué)連讀

last year, this year (語音的同化現(xiàn)象)

go out, state of the art (元音的的連讀現(xiàn)象)

iPhone 8(輔音+元音的連讀,/aifo?n e?t/)

希望借著這個熱點可以幫大家學(xué)點英文。最后想提醒大家：無論買不買得起蘋果的新產(chǎn)品，我們要理性消費別給自己太大的壓力～