夏说英语新闻晨读 第259期:Adobe将于2020年停止更新

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Adobe¹ Flash, a once ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired² at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday. Adobe – along with Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Mozilla – said support for Flash would ramp³ down across the internet in phases over the next three years. After 2020, Adobe will stop releasing updates for Flash and web browsers⁴ will no longer support it. The companies are encouraging developers to migrate their software on to modern programming standards. In a public letter in 2010, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs criticized Flash's reliability⁵, security and performance. Since then, other technologies, such as HTML5, have emerged as alternatives to Flash.

Ubiquitous: 普遍存在的
Power: 提供动力
Ramp down: 下调
Web browser: 网页浏览器
Reliability: 可靠性
Alternative: 其他的选择

1 adobe   

n.泥砖，土坯，美国Adobe公司

参考例句：

• They live in an adobe house.他们住在一间土坯屋里。
• Adobe bricks must drived dried completely before are used.土坯砖块使用前一定要完全干燥。

2 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

3 ramp   

n.暴怒，斜坡，坡道；vi.作恐吓姿势，暴怒，加速；vt.加速

参考例句：

• That driver drove the car up the ramp.那司机将车开上了斜坡。
• The factory don't have that capacity to ramp up.这家工厂没有能力加速生产。

4 browsers   

浏览器

参考例句：

• Three-layer architecture is a model made up of browser, web server and background database server. 这种体系结构是由Browser、Web Server、Database Server组成的浏览器／Web服务器／后台数据库服务器三层模型。 来自互联网
• Another excellent approach is to abandon the browser entirely and, instead, create a non-browser-based, Internet-enabled application. 另一个非常好的方法是干脆放弃浏览器，取而代之，创建一个不基于浏览器，但却是基于互联网的应用。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

5 reliability   

n.可靠性，确实性

参考例句：

• We mustn't presume too much upon the reliability of such sources.我们不应过分指望这类消息来源的可靠性。
• I can assure you of the reliability of the information.我向你保证这消息可靠。