2017年12月六级第2套仔细阅读 Passage 2 原文翻译及答案解析

Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years. The latest iPhone 6s, for example, has a dual-core processor and fits nicely into your pocket. By comparison, you would expect to find a technological specification like this on your standard laptop in an office anywhere in the world.

我们的世界如今发展如此之快，以至于我们很少停下来审视仅在短短几年内我们取得了多大进展。例如，最新的iPhone 6s拥有双核处理器，并且能轻松放入口袋。相比之下，你可能会在世界任何地方办公室的标准笔记本电脑上找到类似的技术规格。

It's no wonder what new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet. Soon, our current smartphone lifestyle will expand to create our own smart home lifestyle too.

难怪物联网的新应用发展迅速，因为我们购买的几乎每一个新设备都配有插头或无线网络连接。很快，我们当前的智能手机生活方式将扩展，创造出我们自己的智能家居生活方式。

All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that Millennials (千禧一代) are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home. become a reality for large numbers of people worldwide.

所有研究都同意，到2020年，接近250亿设备、物品和传感器将被连接，这恰好也是千禧一代预计占我们整体劳动力75%的时刻，而全连接的家将成为全球许多人的现实。

However, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as smart buildings and even cities increasingly become the norm as leaders and business owners begin to wake up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new forms of automation coupled with intelligent energy and facilities management.

然而，这只是众所周知的冰山一角，因为智能建筑甚至城市正日益成为常态，领导者和企业主开始意识到技术通过连接传感器和新形式的自动化，结合智能能源和设施管理，所能带来的巨大节省。

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a business or managing a large building.

在线安全摄像头、智能照明以及大量控制温度和空气质量的传感器，正在为运营企业或管理大型建筑时曾被视为必要成本提供前所未有的控制水平、效率和改进。

We can expect that the ever-growing list of devices, systems and environments remain connected, always online and talking to each other. The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

我们可以预期，不断增长的设备、系统和环境列表将保持连接，始终在线并相互交流。巨大的好处不仅在于存储这些庞大且快速增长的数据，还在于运行实时数据分析以提取可操作和持续知识的能力。

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

这项技术最大、最令人兴奋的挑战是如何创造性地利用这些不断增长的数据，为这些智慧城市的商业和市民带来成本节约、改进和切实利益。

The good news is that most of this technology is already invented. Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at any time was some form of a distant utopian (乌托邦式的) dream, and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the internet.

好消息是，这项技术的大部分已经发明。让我们面对现实，不久前，在任何地点任何时间工作的想法还是一种遥远的乌托邦式梦想，但现在，只要我们能接入互联网，我们就能在世界任何地方执行几乎任何办公室任务。

It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

是时候意识到，建设智能建筑、城市和家园将在未来几年显著提高我们的生活质量。