英语翻译Thirteen hundred men and women are dressing up like astr

英语翻译
Thirteen hundred men and women are dressing up like astronauts.They put on white suits and pull on caps,boots and gloves.After walking through "air showers," where blasts of air remove dust particles from their clothing,the team is ready to work.
Are they preparing to perform operations on patients?Or are they shooting scenes for a science fiction film (科幻影片)?
No.these people are the technicians who make the latest computer and video-game (电子游戏) "brains" - Intel Pentium chips (英特尔奔腾集成块).
Intel technicians ar high-tech electrical engineers.When they make Pentium chips,they're building tiny interconnected electrical circuits - pathways through which electricity,a stream of electrons,ca flow.
Because the circuits the Intel workers build are so small,even tiny dust particles can cause trouble.That's why Intel technicians dress up like astronauts and make the chips in a superclean environment.Impurities (杂质) like dust can cover and block the tiny electrical circuits.
In the computer world,blocked circuits are bad news.That's because all the functions a computer performs depend on the flow of electricity.The specific function a computer performs at any one time depends on which circuits are on or off.
In order for your computer to understand which circuits should be on or off,every instruction you give must be translated into binary (二进制的) code.Binary code is a number system that uses only two numbers - 0 and 1.
Each binary digit,or bit,operates a tiny electronic switch on a computer chip circuit."one" switches the current on,while "zero" switches the current off.
The main reason for the difference in speed is the size of the circuits.In the very earliest computers,built in the 1940s,technicians constructed large circuits with bulky (体积大的) switches in glass tubes and miles of wires.A single computer could fill a room.These primitive circuits used a lot of electricity and overheated quickly.
Today's circuits are far,far smaller.You can fit circuits with millions of switches on a single silicon chip.These smaller chips are faster because electricity doesn't have to travel as far from one switch to the next.It takes less electric current to turn these tiny switches on and off.The computer use less power and they run faster.
So,what's next in the high-tech world of computer chips?The dust-free circuit builders at Intel are working to bring an even faster chip to the market within a few years.This "Pentium Pro" chip will be twice as fast as the 32-bit Pentium chip.
That means you can expect better programs,more video games,and more intense pictures.
(adapted from Science World)

人工翻译~
一千三百个穿得像太空人的男男女女?这些人全副武装,都穿着白色安全服,戴着帽子、靴子以及手套.他们一一通过“空气浴”设施,经由气流将身上的尘埃和微粒吹洗干净,准备就绪开始工作.
这些人要给病人做手术?还是在拍科幻片啊?
其实,他们是制作英特尔奔腾集成芯片的技术员.而这种芯片,正是控制时下所有电子游戏的“大脑”.
英特尔的技术人员都是高科技电子工程师.他们制作奔腾芯片的过程其实是制造非常细微的能够让电子流顺利通过的互联电流回路.
这种回路非常小,小到一点点尘埃或者空气微粒都能影响它的制作过程.尘埃、微粒之类的杂质很有可能覆盖或堵塞电流通路.
而这也就是为什么英特尔的技术员穿得像太空人并且要求整个工作环境彻底的干净.
对计算机来说,被堵塞的电流通路可谓噩耗.计算机的所有功能都依靠电流来实现,任何时候任何功能的运作都由某条电路的开启或关闭来控制.
为了让你的计算机明白哪条电路该被关闭或该被开启,你的每条指令都被转换成只使用0和1这两个数字进行运算的二进制码.
每个二进制数,或者叫字节,都控制着计算机芯片回路上的一个电路开关.1代表开启电流,而0代表关闭电流.
电流回路的是决定运算速度的主要因素.二十世纪四十年代最早期的计算机,拥有安装在玻璃管中的巨大的电路开关和总长达到几英里的电线组成的回路.所以一台计算机就能塞满整个房间.这种原始电路耗电巨大且容易很快就过热.
今天的电路要小得多.你可以在一片硅芯片上装上几百万个电路开关.电子从一个开关到另一个开关的移动距离非常小,因此这些小电路运算速度却快得多.而小得电流开关消耗的电力也小,所以现在的计算机不仅速度快还省电.
话说,高科技含量的计算机芯片世界有没有什么新消息?英特尔的“无尘”电路制作人员正在努力制造一款更快的芯片,预计几年之内推出市场.这款叫做奔腾Pro的芯片的运算速度是现有32位芯片的两倍.这就意味着,你可以期待更好的电脑程序,更多的电子游戏和更刺激的电影了.
（摘自《科学世界》）