豆知识 2010-05-30&06-05 Google三大核心业务之三：应

 I’m Vivian Leung and I work at Google.Today we’re here to talk about Google Apps, which, if you’re not familiar withit, is our online suite¹ of communication and collaboration² tools. I think here atGoogle we have been looking at ways people work with each other, communicatewith each other. We’ve found that most of the time we’re pretty attached to ourown computers or hard drives, and being an Internet company we figured theremust be a better way. 

 

 

And one of these ways is what we called Cloud Computing³. I know it sounds, itsounds a little big geeky, but it’s really not that complicated. Basically allof your files and all of your information, even all of those programs that youuse are all stored, you know, online or in the cloud as we call it. That meansyou’re not attached to any single computer or hard drive. All you have to do isbe connect to the Internet and you can access these programs and files from anywherein the world. 

 

 

Let’s use an example. So, I’m in New York and my coworker is in San Franciscoand we need to work on a presentation together. In the old way we would’vecreated a presentation, emailed as an attachment⁴ and sent it back and forth⁵,back and forth until we were done. But with Google Docs for example, I cancreate a presentation online, share it with my colleague and we can actuallyboth edit it and make changes at the same time. And we’re working on the sameactual doc so there is no version control and there is no attachments⁶. There isonly one copy of any file that you work on. That means you can be accessingyour information and working with other people from any computer.

 

 

In fact you can actually connect to it from any devices connected to theInternet. So smart phones, netbooks, laptops you name it, and there is nothingto download or install. You just get online and off you go.

 

 

I hope this video has been helpful. If you have any ideas on how we can makeApps better, please let us know at this link. 

1 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。

2 collaboration   

n.合作，协作；勾结

参考例句：

• The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
• He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。

3 computing   

n.计算

参考例句：

• to work in computing 从事信息处理
• Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。

4 attachment   

n.附属物，附件；依恋；依附

参考例句：

• She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
• She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。

5 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

6 attachments   

n.（用电子邮件发送的）附件( attachment的名词复数 )；附着；连接；附属物

参考例句：

• The vacuum cleaner has four different attachments. 吸尘器有四个不同的附件。
• It's an electric drill with a range of different attachments. 这是一个带有各种配件的电钻。