footnotes for learning English 6

1. pop up 店家林立
ex: Self-service kiosks are popping up everywhere.

2.unveil 使公諸於眾 v.t.
ex: Alaska Airlines recently unveiled what it calls the Airport for the future.

3. zip through : to travel or move very quickly through something
ex:What we are trying to do is that separate the customers who have fairly simple transactions and can just zip through the standard check-in area.

4.new clips from around the world 世界新聞剪輯

5. departure 背離,出發,波段 (可數名詞)
ex:1. The new policy represents a complete departure from their previous position.
2. Because our eclipse tour was filling up so fast, we had to create a second departure.

6. charter 包租
ex: Sometimes an eclipse takes place in the ocean, and the only way to see it is to charter a ship.

7. skygazer 觀星族

8. eternity 永恆;(似乎)無終止的一段時間
ex:1. If we can get out of sea near Iwo Jima, we will see the 2009 eclipse even longer. That is an eternity to an eclipse junkie(成癮者).

9.I think we are much closer to the goal than people would have thought even two years ago. (我覺得我們比二年前人門所想像的更接近目標了). We will produce new imaging devices for humans in less than two years(在不滿二年內).

10.reach a lot of barriers遇到許多障礙
ex: We have reached a lot of barriers in the development of new drugs and new treatments for cancer that can not be overcome with current technologies.

11.breakthrough 突破(making an important discovery; a productive insight)
ex: The word "breakthrough" is often used when talking about the newest drug or the next treatment in cancer research.

12.get rid of something 清除某些東西
ex:The new ram based file system called "tmpfs" let us keep the files in the memory cache and never get rid of them until they're deleted or the system reboots.

13. aforementioned 如上述所提的
The aforementioned “Hello World” program is a perfect example.
When compiled, it can be loaded into memory and executed simply by typing
the name of the executable (hello) on the command line (assuming, of course, that
the executable exists somewhere on your PATH).