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In time for MWC the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, agreed on the specifications for 5G: speeds must be up to 20 gigabits per second, enough to download a movie in a few blinks of an eye.
世界移动通信大会结束后，来自英国的国际电信联盟认同了对5G的解释：速度必须达到每秒20千兆，足以让人们眨眼间就下好一部电影。
Blink
1. 眨 (眼睛)
Kathryn blinked and forced a smile.
凯瑟琳眨了眨眼，挤出了一丝微笑。
2. 闪烁
Green and yellow lights blinked on the surface of the harbour.
绿色和黄色的灯光在港湾水面上闪烁。
Scintillate 发出(火花); 闪闪发光; 闪烁
In his Anthology of the Middle State, his strong sense of tragic consciousness scintillate through the lives of poets, epitaphs and poems, telling us his internal solitude and pains.
在他的《中州集》作家小传、碑记铭文、诗歌等作品中都可以看到他强烈的悲剧意识，同时也可以看到他内心的孤寂和痛苦。

At the show, makers of networking gear, such as Samsung, announced products for the first 5G networks.
展示会上，诸如三星的网络零件制造商宣布了首款5G网络的产品。
宣布，断言等单词，announce, claim
Asseverate 郑重声明
I hereby do asseverate my solemn belief that globalization, taken as a whole, is a positive economic force and well worth defending.
在此我郑重声明我的神圣信仰国际化，总体上是一种积极地经济力量，十分值得卫护。
Avouch 保证
He offered to avouch his innocence with his sword.
他表示愿以剑来保证他是无辜的。
Manifesto 宣言
The Republicans are currently drawing up their election manifesto.
共和党人目前正在起草他们的竞选宣言。
Avow 承认; 宣布
...a public statement avowing neutrality.
...一份宣布中立的公开声明。

These are expected to launch in 2018, mostly in South Korea and in Japan, where the new wireless technology is expected to be shown off during the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.
这些产品预计在2018年正式发布于韩国和日本，此举是为了在2020年东京奥运上期间炫耀最新的无线电技术。
show off 炫耀；卖弄
The bear was shown off at the International Robot Show in Japan.
这款机器熊已经在日本国际机器人展上亮相。
Flaunt 炫耀
They drove around in Rolls-Royces, openly flaunting their wealth.
他们开着劳斯莱斯车四处转，公开炫耀他们的财富。
Ostentation 卖弄; 炫耀
On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
总体来说，她生活俭朴，不事张扬。

Much still needs to be invented to make 5G a reality. Mobile carriers will, for instance, have to rejig their networks to make them more like a “computing cloud”.
为了让5G成为现实，仍然需要大量的投资。例如，手机运营商不得不重整网路使其更为贴近“云计算”。
carrier
电信运营商
...Japan's top wireless carrier.

…日本头号无线通讯运营商
Rejig
重新安排; 调整
The government is rejigging some tax assessment methods.
政府正在调整一些税务评估方法。

The idea is that network operators, just like providers of computing power, should be able to cook up new telecoms services within seconds.
其基本理念就是，网络运营商就像计算能力的提供者一样，应该能够在几秒钟之内编纂好新的网络服务。
cook up 虚构；伪造
He must have cooked up his scheme on the spur of the moment.
他肯定是一时冲动策划了这个阴谋。
Phony 假的
He'd telephoned with some phony excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
他用一些假的借口打电话，她根本就不信。
Spurious 似是而非的
He was arrested in 1980 on spurious corruption charges.
他于1980年因似是而非的腐败指控被拘捕。
Dummy 仿真品
Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
仿真巡逻车将被安置在公路旁以威慑超速行驶的驾驶员。

One technique is called “slicing”, meaning phone networks can be divided up to serve different purposes, such as providing superfast connectivity for self-driving cars or reliably hooking up connected devices as part of the Internet of Things.
其中一个技术叫做“剪切”，这表明手机网络能够被分成几种不同的目的，比如说，为自动驾驶的汽车提供超快的网络连接，或者是确实地使可连接设备连上网络。
hook up 牵连，关联
What are you hoping to gain by hooking up with this guy?
和这个男生牵连在一起你想得到什么呢？
快速相关的单词，fast, quick
celerity 迅速; 敏捷
It improves the celerity and accuracy of speed tracking.
提高速度跟踪的快速性和精确性
Lope 轻快地奔跑
He was loping across the sand toward Nancy.
他正穿过沙滩轻快地向南希跑去
Flit 轻快地飞过
...the parrot that flits from tree to tree.
…从一棵树轻快地飞到另一棵树上的鹦鹉
Scurry
急促跑
The attack began, sending residents scurrying for cover.
袭击开始了居民们急促奔跑寻找藏身之处。
Whoosh
迅速移动; 突然移动
Kites whooshed above the beach
风筝在海滩上空飘过。

Mobile innovation is not doomed to be hidden in the network. But you will have to look more closely to spot it.
移动端的创新并非注定要隐藏于网络之下。但是，你得去细心查看才能分辨出来。
Doom
1. 注定
That argument was the turning point for their marriage, and the one which doomed it to failure.

那次争吵是他们婚姻的一个转折点，它注定了他们婚姻的失败。
2. 厄运
...his warnings of impending doom.

…他对即将到来的厄运发出的警告。

In Barcelona fingerprint readers appeared in smartphones costing less than $100.
在巴塞罗那，智能手机的指纹识别系统的造价低于100美金。
If these move to even cheaper devices, it would be a boon to people in developing countries who could easily authenticate themselves online.
如果这些创新运用在更便宜的设备上，这将会造福发展中国家的人们，从而帮助他们快捷地进行在线验证。
Boon 福音，恩惠
It is for this reason that television proves such a boon to so many people.
正是这个原因电视机成为这么多人的一大福音。
Alms 救济金; 救济品
Once two poor women came to her in her castle, and begged for alms.
一次两个可怜的女人来到她的城堡前，祈求施舍。
Largesse 慷慨捐助; 善举
...grateful recipients of their largesse.
...对他们的慷慨解囊心存感激的受捐者。

Another development was that 360-degree cameras are becoming smaller and cheaper. The matchbox-sized Giroptic iO, which attaches to a smartphone, costs $260.
另一个发展就是全景摄像头正在变得更小更便宜。公司出品用来连接智能手机的IO摄像头和火柴盒一般大小，且售价为260美元。
廉价相关单词，cheap
bauble n.廉价珠宝
Christmas trees decorated with coloured baubles.
... 装饰着五颜六色小饰物的圣诞树。
gimcrack
adj 廉价的，粗制滥造的 华而不实
The silver yo-yo that Jerry kept on his office desk was a gimcrack he had won as a carnival prize many years ago.
杰里放在他办公桌上的银质溜溜球是他在多年前赢得的狂欢节礼物，一个华而不实的小东西。
schlock adj. 廉价的? (电影、流行歌曲或书籍)低俗品
...a showman with a good eye for marketable schlock.
...一位善于发现畅销低俗品的经理人。
sleazy adj. 质地薄的,没有内容的,廉价的 =》 不名誉的; 令人厌恶的
The accusations are making the government's conduct appear increasingly sleazy.
种种指责使这个政府的行为看起来越发令人厌恶。
undercut v 廉价出售,底切
Subsidies allow growers to undercut competitors and depress world prices.
补贴使得种植者能以低于竞争对手的价格出售并压低世界价格。
trumpery adj．中看不中用的，无价值的
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.
照常，大部分的东西是华而不实的，还是他父亲手里就开始积藏了。

Expect another dimension of selfies, which some already call “surroundies”, and, inevitably, new sorts of selfie sticks.
令人期待的是，其中包括一些已被称为“surroundies”的自拍镜头，当然还有各种各样的自拍杆。
selfies 自拍
Self
1. 自己，个体：一个人完整的、主要的或独特的存在；个人
“An actor's instrument is the self”(Joan Juliet Buck)
“演员的工具是自己”(琼•朱丽叶•巴克),
2. 个性，本质，本性：使一个人区别于另一个人的必不可少的品质；特性
“He would walk a little first along the southern walls, shed his European self, fully enter this world”(Howard Kaplan)
“他愿沿着南墙先走一段，掩藏起他的欧洲本性，完全投入到这个世界中”(霍华德•卡普兰)
3. 自我，自我意识：对自己的存在或身份的意识；认识
“For some of us, the self's natural doubts are given in mesmerizing amplification by way of critics' negative assessments of our writing”(Joyce Carol Oates)
“对我们中的有些人来说，自我意识的天生疑问已通过评论家们对我们作品的否定评价而在令人迷惑的引申中显露出来”(乔伊丝•卡罗尔•奥茨)
Self-
Self-abased/contempt 自卑的
Self-abnegation 自我牺牲
Self-affected 自负的,顾影自怜的
Self-assured 自信的
Ego 自我
egocentric 自我中心的，以我为中心的人，自我主义者
egomania 极端利已主义