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[00:07.35]51 预测未来
[00:14.71]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:17.28]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:19.85]What was the 'future' electronic development
[00:22.09]莱昂.巴格瑞特根本不可能预测的
[00:24.32]that Leon Bagrit wasn't able to foresee
[00:29.79]'未来'电子技术发展是什么?
[00:35.27]Predicting the future is notoriously difficult.
[00:37.75]众所周知,预测未来是非常困难的.
[00:40.23]Who could have imagined,in the mid 1970s,for example,
[00:43.31]在20世纪70年代中叶又有谁能想象得到
[00:46.39]that by the end of the 20th century,
[00:48.38]在20世纪末的时候,
[00:50.36]computers would be as common in people's homes as TV sets?
[00:53.49]家庭用的计算机会像电视机一样普遍?
[00:56.61]In the 1970s,computers were common enough,
[00:59.18]在70年代,计算机已经相当普及了,
[01:01.75]but only in big business,government departments and large organizations.
[01:05.37]但只用在大的公司政府部门和大的组织之中,
[01:08.99]These were the so-called mainframe machines.
[01:11.56]它们被称为主机.
[01:14.14]Mainframe computers were very large indeed
[01:16.56]计算机主机确实很大
[01:18.99]often occupying whole air-conditioned rooms,