因此，面对丹麦人的进攻，阿尔弗雷德没有贸然同敌人作战，而是采用骚扰敌人的战术。他的 部队不停地移动，牵着敌人的鼻子，让他们跟着跑。他派出巡逻队阻止敌人抢劫，因而饥饿威胁着 丹麦军队。这时，阿尔弗雷德发起一连串小规模的进攻，结果不出一个月，丹麦人就投降了。这一 幕历史可以说是王室谍报活动中最精彩的篇章。· Lesson10 Silicon valley硅谷 Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.Carver Mead,a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology,notes there are now work-stations that enable engineers to design,test and produce chips right on their desks,much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars,engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures.Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office-- spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving theU.S.a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast.'We're got more garages with smart people,'Mead observes.'We really thrive on anarchy. And on Asians.Already,orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.And Chinese,Korean,Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges.As the heads of next- generation start-ups,these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets.For instance,Alex Au,a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong,has set up aTaiwanfactory to challengeJapan's near lock on the memory-chip market.India-born N.Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened an AT &T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri.Before it becomes a retirement village,Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business. 参考译文 技术的发展趋势有可能把硅谷重新推向未来。卡弗.米德~集成电路的一位先驱，加州理工学 院的计算机教授-注意到，现在有些计算机工作站使工程技术人员可以在他们的办公桌上设计、 试验和生产芯片，就像一位编辑在苹果机上编出一份时事通讯一样。由于制造一块芯片的时间已缩 短至几天，费用也只有几百美元，因此，工程技术人员可能很块就可充分发挥他们的想像力，而不 会因失败而造成经济上的损失。米德预言发明者可以在办公室用一个周末的时间生产了完美的、功 能很强的、按客户需求设计的芯片一造就新一代从汽车间起家的技术人员，在把产品推向市场方 面使美国把它的外国对手们打个措手不及。“我们有更多的汽车间，那里有许多聪明人，”米德 说。“我们确实是靠这种无政府状态发展起来的。”靠的是亚洲人。硅谷许多公司中工程技术人员 的大多数是东方人和亚裔美国人。中国、韩国、菲律宾和印度的工程师一批批地从加州的大学毕 业。作为新掘起一代的带头人，亚裔发明家可以凭借他们在习惯和语言上的优势，与关键的太平洋 沿岸市场建立起更加牢固的联系。比如说，亚历克斯.奥，一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士，已经 在台湾建厂，对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。印度出生的N.达莫达.雷迪经营 的小小的加州公司在堪萨斯城重新启用了美国电话电报公司的一家芯片工厂，并从密苏里州获取了 财政上的支持。在硅谷变成一个退休村之前，它很可能成为建立全球商业的一个教学场地。 Lesson11 How to grow old如何安度晚年 Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.In the young there is a justification for this feeling.Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have cheated of the best things that life has to offer.But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.The best way to overcome it--so at least it seems to me--is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,until bit by bit因此，面对丹麦人的进攻，阿尔弗雷德没有贸然同敌人作战，而是采用骚扰敌人的战术。他的 部队不停地移动，牵着敌人的鼻子，让他们跟着跑。他派出巡逻队阻止敌人抢劫，因而饥饿威胁着 丹麦军队。这时，阿尔弗雷德发起一连串小规模的进攻，结果不出一个月，丹麦人就投降了。这一 幕历史可以说是王室谍报活动中最精彩的篇章。. Lesson 10 Silicon valley 硅谷 Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now work-stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be f ree to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the of fice -- spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving theU.S.a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. 'We're got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes. 'We really thrive on anarchy.' And on Asians. Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staf f s at many Valley firms. And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves f rom California's colleges. As the heads of next￾generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets. For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph. D. f rom Hong Kong, has set up aTaiwanfactory to challengeJapan's near lock on the memory-chip market. India-born N.Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened an AT & T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing f rom the state of Missouri. Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business. 参考译文 技术的发展趋势有可能把硅谷重新推向未来。卡弗.米德 -- 集成电路的一位先驱，加州理工学 院的计算机教授 -- 注意到，现在有些计算机工作站使工程技术人员可以在他们的办公桌上设计、 试验和生产芯片，就像一位编辑在苹果机上编出一份时事通讯一样。由于制造一块芯片的时间已缩 短至几天，费用也只有几百美元，因此，工程技术人员可能很块就可充分发挥他们的想像力，而不 会因失败而造成经济上的损失。米德预言发明者可以在办公室用一个周末的时间生产了完美的、功 能很强的、按客户需求设计的芯片 -- 造就新一代从汽车间起家的技术人员，在把产品推向市场方 面使美国把它的外国对手们打个措手不及。 “我们有更多的汽车间，那里有许多聪明人，”米德 说。“我们确实是靠这种无政府状态发展起来的。” 靠的是亚洲人。硅谷许多公司中工程技术人员 的大多数是东方人和亚裔美国人。中国、韩国、菲律宾和印度的工程师一批批地从加州的大学毕 业。作为新掘起一代的带头人，亚裔发明家可以凭借他们在习惯和语言上的优势，与关键的太平洋 沿岸市场建立起更加牢固的联系。比如说，亚历克斯.奥，一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士，已经 在台湾建厂，对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。印度出生的 N.达莫达.雷迪经营 的小小的加州公司在堪萨斯城重新启用了美国电话电报公司的一家芯片工厂，并从密苏里州获取了 财政上的支持。在硅谷变成一个退休村之前，它很可能成为建立全球商业的一个教学场地。 Lesson 11 How to grow old 如何安度晚年 Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have cheated of the best things that life has to of fer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it -- so at least it seems to me -- is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit