新闻热词：啄，轻吻 Peck

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　　由IBM生产的欧洲最快的超级计算机(每秒钟可以运算40万亿次)在巴塞罗纳的一个研究中心落户。这台名为“MareNostrum”的计算机属于巴塞罗纳超级计算中心，是全球第四大超级计算机。“MareNostrum”一词在拉丁语中的意思是“我们的海洋”，预示着巴塞罗纳的位置在地中海。
　　Europe's fastest supercomputer, which can make 40 trillion calculations per second, booted up for the first time at a research center in Barcelona.
　　The "MareNostrum," built by IBM Corp., boasts 40 teraflops of speed. It can make more calculations in one second than a human pecking at a calculator could make in 10 million years.
　　Its memory is equal to the combined memories of nearly 20,000 personal computers, and its storage system has a capacity of 233 terabytes, the equivalent of the information in 29 million books.
　　Peck常和at连用，意为“啄;啄起;小口地吃”，在文中比喻“一下一下地按计算器”，此外还有比喻义“(敷衍地)轻吻，不断批评”。来看几个例句：That bird tried to peck the worm.(那只鸟想啄起那只虫。)The hens pecked at the corn.(母鸡在啄食谷子。)He pecked at his dinner.(他慢慢吃着饭。)