VOA慢速英語: Apple Watch 離我們的心越來越近？

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about the new Apple Watch during an Apple event, in San Francisco, California, March 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, showed off their newest device, the Apple Watch. Mr. Cook said it is the "most personal" device Apple has ever created.

蘋果公司CEO蒂姆·庫克展示了最新電子設(shè)備Apple Watch。庫克先生表示，這是蘋果有史以來最具創(chuàng)造個性的電子設(shè)備。

The Apple Watch is a miniature, or very small, computer a person wears on his or her wrist. There will be three models with straps to attach them to your wrist. An Apple Watch will be able to do many of the same things as an iPhone. It will show email, texts, news, health readings and other information. These apps will be customized for the watch. It will be different than just seeing what is on your phone.

Apple Watch是一種用戶可以戴到手腕上的微縮模型或微型電腦，公司將會推出三款配備表帶的產(chǎn)品。Apple Watch將實現(xiàn)iPhone手機的大部分功能，它可以顯示電子郵件、短信、新聞、健康讀報和其它信息。這些程序是為Apple Watch專門定制，不同于IPhone手機上看到的程序。

Like a phone, you will be able to receive calls on your wrist. Mr. Cook smiled while describing this. "I've been wanting to do this since I was five years old," he said. "The day is finally here." Decades ago, a comic strip hero named Dick Tracy talked into his wrist watch, but until now, that has only been something possible in the future.

如同手機一樣，你可以在手腕上接聽電話。談到這點時，庫克先生微微一笑，他說：“我從5歲開始一直想要做到實現(xiàn)這個愿望，這一天終于到來。”幾十年前，一位名為迪克·特雷的連環(huán)畫人物對著腕表說話。但直到目前為止，只有在未來才有可能實現(xiàn)。

Mr. Cook also said it is "incredibly intimate." He said you can capture and send your heartbeat to another person with an Apple Watch.

庫克先生還表示Apple Watch可以讓人“非常親密地交流”。你可以捕捉到心跳并發(fā)送給另一個使用Apple Watch設(shè)備的用戶。

"This is an incredibly intimate way to tell someone that you are thinking about them," he said. "I hope someone sends me one of those.

他表示：“這是一種告訴別人你在想他們的一種非常親密的方式。”我希望有人可以給我發(fā)一段心跳聲。

”The crown of the Apple Watch is what sets this Apple product apart from other companies' smart watches. Like the touch screen on smartphones, the crown controls what you can do. By turning the crown on an Apple Watch, one can zoom in and out, to look at a map, for example.

“Apple Watch的表冠將蘋果的這款產(chǎn)品與其它公司的智能手表區(qū)分開。如同智能手機的觸摸屏一樣，表冠決定你可以做什么。通過轉(zhuǎn)動Apple Watch上的表冠，用戶可以體驗縮放功能，比如查看地圖時可以縮放地圖。”

The watches will be available in stores in late April. They will be sold at different prices, beginning at $349. Mr. Cook called the high-end model, the one made of 18-karat gold, "jaw dropping beautiful." Its price tag will be thousands of dollars.

這款手表將于4月下旬，在蘋果商店以不同價格出售，起價349美元。庫克先生稱高端機型由18K金制成，“讓令人驚嘆其美觀”，標(biāo)價數(shù)千美元。

"The biggest surprise to me was that the price range goes up to $10,000 for the Apple Edition Watch," writes tech blogger Carolyn Nicander Mohr of The Wonder of Tech. "That price is quite steep for technology that may be obsolete in a year."

“科技奇跡網(wǎng)站”的科技博客卡羅琳·尼坎德·莫爾寫道：“對我來說最大的意外是Apple Edition Watch價格區(qū)間竟然升到了1萬美元。這種價格對一種可能在一年后就過時的科技產(chǎn)品來說漲幅太大了。

”Apple hopes to excite consumers so they will want to buy and wear computers on their bodies. The first smartwatches from Samsung, Sony and LG have not been selling well. Only five million smartwatches were sold last year, according to Strategy Analytics. Another wearable computer, Google Glass eyewear, is no longer on the market.

蘋果公司希望能夠引起消費者興趣，這樣他們就會想要購買和佩戴這種微型電腦。三星、索尼和LG公司的第一款智能手表銷量不是很好。根據(jù)策略分析公司的數(shù)據(jù)顯示：去年只賣出了500萬個智能手表。另一款配戴式電腦：谷歌眼鏡已經(jīng)退出市場。

Critics say one problem with Apple Watch is that you need an iPhone on your body, or nearby, to make this watch fully functional. Like a phone, it will also need to be charged each night. It remains to be seen whether people really want to carry both a smartphone and a smartwatch.

批評人士表示：Apple Watch的問題在于，iPhone手機必須隨身攜帶或放在附近才能實現(xiàn)這款手表的所有功能。同手機一樣Apple Watch也需要每天晚上充電。人們是否真的需要同時攜帶智能手機和智能手表仍有待觀察。

Apple has overcome skeptics before. Both computer tablets and smartphones were not popular until Apple released the iPad and iPhones.

蘋果公司已經(jīng)向質(zhì)疑者展示了可行性。在蘋果公司發(fā)布iPad和iPhone之前，平板電腦和智能手機那時并不流行。

The announcement today comes after last week's news that Apple will replace AT&T on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow Jones index includes the top 30 companies representing the U.S. economy and markets.

上周，有消息稱蘋果公司將取代AT&T公司的在道瓊斯工業(yè)平均指數(shù)中的排名。道瓊斯指數(shù)包涵美國經(jīng)濟和市場上排名前三十名的公司。

I'm Anne Ball.

我是安妮·鮑爾

Anne Ball reported and wrote this story for Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.

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Words in This Story

gadget – n. a small, useful device

miniature – adj. very small or tiny

wrist – n. the part of your body where your hand joins your arm

customized – adj. something that has been changed to fit the needs of a person or business, etc.

intimate – adj. having a very close and warm and friendly relationship

obsolete – adj. replaced by something newer

skeptic – n. a person who questions or doubts something or someone