BBC Real English – Netbook 上网本

　　Feifei: Laptop 笔记本电脑。

　　Diarmuid: But in American English they call the same thing a notebook.

　　Feifei: Notebook 美式英语中的笔记本电脑。英国人通常用 laptop, 而美国人会说notebook.

　　Diarmuid: So I think that the name netbook is a mix of two words – internet and notebook.

　　Example

　　A: Did you buy anything in the January sales?

　　B: Yes, I bought a little netbook computer. It’s really handy.

　　Feifei: So a netbook then is a small computer that is used mostly for surfing the internet. 因为上网本很小，所以它所能提供给我们的功能也就不必台式机 和笔记本电脑了，那么人们也就用它上上网罢了。

　　Diarmuid: I use it mostly for surfing the web and checking emails - things like that.

　　Feifei: It’s incredible how small computers are these days, isn’t it?

　　Diarmuid: It certainly is and it looks like we will soon see more tablet computers too.

　　Feifei: Tablet computers 平板电脑。这种电脑使用的是最新的触摸屏技术 touch- screen technology.

　　Diarmuid: It’s all very different from the computers I grew up with - 3k of RAM and a tape player for saving files!

　　Feifei: You’re getting old, Diarmuid.

　　Diarmuid: I suppose so. And on that depressing note it’s time for us to go.