| 词汇 | COMPUTER |
| 释义 | app n. an application; a computer software application.Ted bought a new app for word processing and he says it's a killer.Ted's killer app can run circles around your old WordSun program. beamer n. a user of IBM computers; one who is knowledgeable about IBM computers.I'm no beamer! I'm a Mac fan.Fred is a confirmed beamer, especially now that computers are cheaper. big iron n. a large, mainframe computer.We'll have to run this job on the big iron over at the university.What kind of big iron do they have over there? bit-bucket n. the imaginary place where lost computer data goes.I guess my data went into the bit-bucket.I bet the bit-bucket is filled with some of the best stuff in the world. boot tr. & in. to start the operating system of a computer.I booted the thing, but it just sat there.When I booted, all I got was a feep. feep 1. n. the beep made by a computer. This thing only makes a feep when I try to run my program.What does the feep mean? 2. in. [for a computer] to make a little beep. It feeps when it's angry, I think.Naw! It just feeps to get your attention. fix n. a repair made to a computer program.This little fix should make the whole program run faster.I wrote a fix to make the program more efficient. flamer n. a person who writes excited and angry notes on a computer bulletin board or in a computer newsgroup.There are too many flamers on this board to make it interesting and entertaining.The flamers turn everything into a screaming battle. garbage n. jumbled computer code.All I get is garbage on the screen.If you put garbage into the computer, you'll get garbage out. hack tr. & in. to write clumsy or inefficient computer programs.I can hack a program for you, but it won't be what you want.Well, I can hack myself. hacker n. a sloppy or inefficient computer programmer; a programmer who breaks into private computers via modem.This program was written by a real hacker. It's a mess, but it works.Some hacker crashed my system! hardware n. computer parts, as opposed to computer programs.What kind of hardware are you running this program on?The software is okay, so it must be the hardware that's off. hotkey n. one or more keys on a computer keyboard that will bring forth a special computer applications program.The hotkeys for my thesaurus are “control” and “F2.”Press the hotkey to bring up a calendar. iron n. computer hardware.What kind of iron are you people running over there?This is good old compatible iron. kludge and kluge 1. n. a patch or a fix in a computer program or circuit. This is a messy kludge, but it will do the job.Kluges that are invisible don't bother anybody. 2. tr. to patch or fix a computer program circuit. I only have time to kludge this problem.The kid kluged a program for us in an hour. kludgy mod. having to do with an inefficient or sloppily written computer program.This program is too kludgy to be acceptable.Who wrote this kludgy mess?I don't care if it's kludgy. Does it work? liveware n. the human component of computer use. (Patterned on software and hardware.)The hardware is okay. It's the liveware that's bad.If I don't get some sleep, you're going to see a liveware crash. moby n. a “megabyte,” a measurement of computer memory size. (A megabyte is whale-sized compared to a kilobyte.)My fixed disks give me a capacity of over seventy-five mobies.My new computer has one moby of random access memory. number-cruncher n. a large and powerful computer.They traded in the old computer for a number-cruncher.The small one is reserved for minor projects. The really big and important jobs are run on the number-cruncher. nybble n. four bits of computer memory. (Literally, one half of a “bite,” i.e., a byte.)My program wouldn't work just because I had one silly little nybble wrong!You don't program a nybble! It's just half a bite. software rot n. an imaginary disease that causes computer programs to go bad over a long period of time.I guess software rot finally got to my program!What you have here is not a bug, but just plain old software rot. SYSOP n. “system operator,” the person who manages a computer system or bulletin board.The SYSOP tried to bring order to the bulletin board discussion but failed.I sent a message to the SYSOP complaining about the number of personal messages on the board. up time n. the time when a computer is running.You'll get the maximum up time with this machine.On some systems the down time is longer than the up time. |
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