Filologia angielska - słownictwo

A waft of the blossom on the trees drifted through the room, much to my delight.

Bill payments and loans repayments can be made through an ATM. I'm broke. We'll have to swing by the ATM to pick up some cash.

From an internet user's point-of-view, uploading is sending a file to a computer that is set up to receive it.

The term "modem" comes from "modulate/demodulate". Modems are needed to convert digital to analog and vice versa.

Special programs may be required to read certain formats.

There is a wide range of Internet service providers.

Dude! Check out the graphics in this game! Unreal or what? I skimped on my graphics card so I'm afraid streaming video comes in freezeframe stutters.

A palm-top can serve as an address book, phone book, calendar, dictionary, calculator, etc. Is it the numerous functions of palmtops or their status-symbol value that makes them so popular among business people?

Courseware designed to help people learn foreign languages has become very popular.

Some say CALL will eventually put English teachers in the unemployment line. Do you buy that?

Some e-books can be read on a device such as a Palm or other handheld computer. The prediction that ebooks will rid the world of paper has yet to be fulfilled.

While e-books are digital, p-books are the traditional, printed and bound type.

Web pages you request are stored in your browser's cache directory on your hard disk. When you return to a page you've recently looked at, the browser can get it from the cache rather than the original server, saving you time and the network the burden o

Can I borrow a few of these CD-ROM encyclopedias? We're hoping to put our new dictionary out as a CDROM as well as a p-book.

Early speech synthesizers sounded pretty freaky but these days they're really not too shabby.

Glitches are a common source of frustration for people working with computers.

Thank God we made backups of all that data! We'd be in real trouble otherwise!

I just got a really creepy e-mail from this guy I met in Lisbon last summer. I'll email those figures to you later I don't have them on me right now.

I'll FAX you a copy now, then snail-mail the original; it should reach you by Wednesday.

Most of his CDs were pirate copies he had burned himself at work. If you're interested in any of these I can burn copies for you, no problem

Printers, serial ports, and disk drives are often referred to as devices. Subsystems frequently require their own controlling software

A printer driver is a device driver that translates computer data into a form understood by the intended printer.

This program still has a couple of bugs in it. I think we've ironed out all the bugs.

Many of the EU's "White Papers" can be downloaded from the web as PDF files.

My brother won a digital camera in a raffle at the company picnic. Some say digital cameras are all the rage but I still prefer good, oldfashioned 35mm.

Programs are specific sets of ordered operations for a computer to perform. Without programs, computers are useless.

I was just putting the finishing touches on my research paper when my hard disk crashed! Back up your work periodically. You never know when the system might crash.

The length of time needed to download a file depends on its size and the speed of your computer's modem (not to mention the capacity of local phone lines). Damn! This file is taking forever and a day to download! I'm ready to give up!

Your home directory is on the IFA server, not the local hard drive.

Examples of applications include word processors, database programs, and web browsers. Development tools, drawing, paint, and image editing programs, and communication programs are also examples of applications.

Due to high competition in computer technology, manufacturers are becoming increasingly creative in inventing various bells and whistles to make their products more attractive.

Something's not right. I'm going to re-boot.

If you don't understand geometry ask Mary, she's a whiz at math and I'm sure she will help you. My brother is a computer whiz, he knows everything about it.

His shoddy research resulted in him failing his PhD.

Hacking is illegal and you can get jailed for breaking into somebody's programs. Hackers need to be careful since they may be easily caught while modifying a program.

This company was the first to use CAD programs to design aircraft.

They were overjoyed when they found a major vein of platinum ore.

They built a new water purification plant outside the city.

The drug prevents the virus from replicating itself.

Doctors say cancer is a congenital disease.

Scientists have managed to map the human genome.

A computer is a wonderful device.

A malfunction of the computer has been detected.

The extension for documents is "DOC."

She has a lot of jewelry made of pure pewter.

The army uses cordite to blow up bridges.

Scientists are trying to make replicas of certain genes.

No one knows what the repercussions of genetic engineering will be.