每天三分钟学英语 第563期:[疑犯追踪401]某个人工智能已经悄然来临

 

趁着本剧开播8周年之际来回顾一下第4季的开场

Novak: Oh, it's here. I think an AI slipped into the world unannounced, then set out to strangle its rivals¹ in the crib. And I know I'm on to something, because my sources keep disappearing.

当然存在。我认为某个人工智能已经悄然来临，然后试图把所有的竞争对手都扼杀在摇篮里。我知道我肯定是发现了什么，因为我的线人一个接一个的消失了。

slip into … unannounced

偷偷潜入／进入……

Hector must have slipped into this party unannounced because I didn't see him until I was leaving.

Hector一定是头头溜进这个派对到，因为我到离开的时候才注意到他。

set out to to

打算

I'm going to this school because I set out to be the best filmmaker ever.

我来这所学校是因为我打算成为最优秀的电影制作人。

be on to something.

发现了什么／即将发现什么

Francine's on to something. She just showed me her results from the her experiments.

Francine发现了些什么，她刚把实验数据给我看了。

男人继续说人工智能的问题

Novak: My editor got reassigned. And now my job's gone. More and more, it just feels like I was the only one investigating the story. I'm sorry. I'm sure I sound like a real conspiracy² nut.

我的编辑被调走了。现在我连工作都没了。我渐渐感觉，我是世界上唯一一个在调查此事的人了。抱歉，我知道我听起来肯定像个阴谋论的疯子。

reassign

再次指派职务

The company's reassigning me to the New York branch.

公司把我重新委派到了纽约分公司。

More and more, it just feels like…

越来越感觉像……

First, Jackie ignores me and now Jack's not responding. More and more, it just feels like no body else cares about finishing this project.

首先Jackie不理我，现在Jack又不回话。我越来越感觉没人在意是否完成这个项目了。

conspiracy

阴谋论

美女貌似很善解人意

Martine: No, I understand. You're saying an artificial³ intelligence bought your paper so you'd lose your job and your flight would be canceled. And you'd end up back at this bar where the only security⁴ camera would go out. And the bartender would have to leave suddenly after getting an emergency text.

不，我理解，你的意思是有个人工智能买下了你工作的报社，所以你丢了工作，然后你的航班还被取消了。你只得来到这间酒吧，酒吧里唯一的监控还坏了。突然间，酒保因为收到了一条紧急短信而必须马上离开。

artificial intelligence

人工智能

end up

最后……

Why are we even talking about this? We always just end up fighting.

我们为什么要争论这件事？我们最后总是吵架。

go out

熄灭，（电子产品等）不工作了

The internet went out. Can you restart⁵ the router?

网络断了，你能重启一下路由器吗？

emergency text

紧急短信

1 rivals   

竞争对手( rival的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• one of the President's chief rivals 总统的主要政敌之一
• She always managed to outsmart her political rivals. 她总有办法表现得比她的政敌智高一筹。

2 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

3 artificial   

adj.人工的，人造的，人为的；做作的，假装的

参考例句：

• The new dam will form a large artificial lake behind it.新筑的水坝将会在后面形成一个人工湖。
• We don't use any artificial flavourings in our products.我们的产品不使用任何人工调味剂。

4 security   

n.安全，安全感；防护措施；保证(金)，抵押(品)；债券，证券

参考例句：

• A security guard brought him down with a flying tackle.一名保安人员飞身把他抱倒。
• There was tight security at the airport when the President's plane landed.总统的专机降落时，机场的保安措施很严密。

5 restart   

vt.重新开始，重新启动；vi.重新开始，重新启动

参考例句：

• Restart the computer in Safe mode or VGA mode.重新启动计算机在安全模式或VGA模式。
• After the restart the program continues to run automatically.重启后，程序仍然自动运行。