Refrigerator--Chills1) and Thrills2)
As home appliances3) go,refrigerators are pretty stupid.The sum of their skills:They make things cold and colder.General Electric's side-by-side Arctica,introduced this year,is the first real advance in refrigeration in decades.The key feature:an Express Chill and Express Thaw drawer,which cools a bottle of wine or softens a frozen steak in a fraction4) of the normal time.Other genius touches:An ethylene5) filter in the produce drawer keeps your veggies6) fresh longer,and the tall ice and water dispenser accommodates bottles and pitchers.
冷卻和刺激作用兼具的冰箱
就家用電器而言,冰箱是很蠢笨的。它們所有功能也不過是使物品一冷再冷。通用電氣公司今年推出的并肩放置的“北極”牌冰箱是幾十年來在冷凍方面的第一次真正的技術(shù)升級(jí)。主要特色:一個(gè)特快冷凍和特快融化抽屜(它能夠冷凍一瓶酒或融化一塊冷凍的牛排,所用時(shí)間僅為正常時(shí)間的零頭。其他天才特色:水果蔬菜抽屜里的一個(gè)乙烯過濾器使您的蔬菜在更長時(shí)間里保持新鮮;高高的冰水分配器用來容納瓶罐。
NOTE 注釋:
1. chill [tFil] v. 冷卻,變冷
2. thrill [Wril] v. 刺激
3. appliance [E5plaiEns] n. 用具, 器具
4. fraction [5frAkFEn] n. 小部分
5. ethylene [5eWili:n] n. [化]乙烯, 乙烯基
6. veggie [5vedVI] n. 蔬菜