If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
— Robert X. Cringely  ·  Computers

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automobile [,ɔtəmə'bil] 词频1 词根: mob
n. <美>汽车; v. 开汽车，坐汽车;
💡 auto自动+mob动+ile表名词，物→自己动的车→汽车
"He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile."
他正在修理汽车的刹车杆.
近义：motorcar, auto, car, cart, motoring
development [dɪ'vɛləpmənt] 词频1 词根: velop
n. 发展，进化;被发展的状态;新生事物，新产品;开发区;
💡 develop发展+ment表名词 →发展发达，发展
"The development was bitterly opposed by the local community."
这一开发项目遭到了当地社区的愤怒抵制。
近义：progress, unfoldment, upgrowth, evolution, evolvement, growth 反义：backwardness, underdevelopment, atrophy, degeneracy, degeneration
cycle ['saɪkl] 词频2 词根: cyc
n. 循环，周期;自行车;时代，一段时间;整套; vi. 周而复始，循环;骑自行车;轮转; vt. 运转，循环;使轮转;
💡 cycl =ring,circle,表示”圆,环”
"We went for a cycle ride on Sunday."
我们星期天骑自行车去兜风了。
近义：period, recycle, reprocess, freeze, hang, bicycle
computer [kəm'pjutɚ] 词频2 词根: com
n. （电子）计算机，电脑;
💡 com一起+put认为，思考+er表名词，物 → 帮助一起思考的机器 → 计算机
"The memory expansion cards are useful adjuncts to the computer."
内存扩充卡是计算机很有用的附件。
近义：software, computational, computing
explode [ɪk'splod] 词频1 词根: plaud
vi. 爆[突]发，发怒;激增，迅速扩大; vt. （使）爆炸;突然（发出巨响，活跃起来，迸发感情）;推翻;驳倒;
💡 ex出+plode=plod鼓掌，击，大声音→出来大声音→爆炸
"Many boys explode firecrackers on the Fourth of July."
许多男孩子在7月4日那天放爆竹.
近义：pop, blast, blow, burst, detonate, erupt 反义：relax, relent, tranquilize, tranquillize, calm, tranquillise
once [wʌns] 词频1
adv. 一次，一趟;一倍;曾经;一旦; conj. 一旦…就…;一经; n. 一次，一回;
💡 on=one一+ce次 → 一次
"Once in the bloodstream, the bacteria adhere to the surface of the red cells."
细菌一进入血液里，就附着在红细胞表面上。
近义：heretofore, occasionally, onetime, previously, sometimes, thereinbefore

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"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it."
— Pierre Gallois
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
— Jef Raskin
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."
— Joe Martin
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
— Andy Rooney
"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."
— John C. Dvorak
"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."
— Robert Orben
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
— unknown
"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."
— Edward Shepherd Mead
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
— Nathaniel Borenstein
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
— Isaac Asimov
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