英文欣赏：比尔·盖茨与通用汽车公司(上)
Bill Gates vs. GM
比尔·盖茨与通用汽车公司
At a computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating if GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
在计算机博览会上，比尔·盖茨比较了电脑行业与汽车工业，说：“如果通用汽车工业能跟计算机技术媲美，我们可以驾驶25美元的汽车，一加仑汽油可以跑1000英里。为了回应比尔的评论，通用汽车发布了一份新闻稿，说如果通用汽车公司研发诸如微软这样的技术，我们驾驶的汽车将具有以下特点：
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
没有任何理由，你的车一天会崩溃两次。
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
每次环卫工人重新粉刷了马路上的线，你就得买一部新车。
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
有时你的车会莫名其妙在高速公路上毫无征兆地熄火。你不得不把车停在路边，关上所有窗户，关闭汽车，然后重新启动，并在你可能开启汽车之前重新打开窗户。因为某些原因，你只能这样做。
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down
偶尔，执行一个例如左转的操作，会使得你的车关闭，
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