新概念英语第三册 Lesson51(5)
8. The IBM Personal Computer was widely copied.copy这里的意思是模仿( imitate )，如：
They have copied the basic design from the Japanese model and made a few adjustments of their own.
9. From those humble beginnings, we have seen the development of the user-friendly home computers and multimedia machines which are in common use today.
humble这里表示simple，简单的，简陋的。我们再来看humble其它的一些意思：
Even when she became rich and famous, she never forgot her humble background. (这里表示low in rank, 卑微的出身)
Whenever you saw him, he was always wearing a humble smile. (这里表示unpretentious，谦逊的)
user-friendly: easy to be use，通常用来描述计算机以及与计算机相关的事物，如：
a user-friendly printer / software
The computer manual is supposed to be user-friendly, but I cannot understand a word of it. 电脑的使用说明书应当是容易使用的，但我一个字也看不懂。
-friendly也经常用于其它后缀，如：customer-friendly, environment-friendly
10. ......was able to predict some of the uses of computers which we know today.
predict: foretell, 预测。predict还可用于predict to do sth, predict + that从句以及其它从句。如：
Storms are predicted to reach the north of the country this evening.
Who could have predicted that within ten years he would be in charge of the whole company?
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