【轻松英文阅读】节省时间的妙招

 Here are some cool tech tips to help you save time.

 

First of all, when you are on a website and the text is too small, you hold down the control key and hit the plus key. With each tap, you make the text larger. You can do this on every computer and every web browser¹. Just hit the minus key to make text smaller.

 

Also on the web, when you want to scroll² down, don’t use your mouse. Hit the space bar instead. Each time you hit the space bar, you scroll down one page. To scroll up hit the space bar while holding down the shift key.

 

When you are typing on your Android or iPhone you no longer need to switch to the punctuation³ layout to get the period. Simply hit the space bar twice. It puts in the period, the space, and the capital for you.

 

Finally, Google is not just for looking up webpages. It is a dictionary too. Type the word ‘define’ after the word you want to know and the definition appears. How’s the weather in Seattle? Type in “Seattle weather” to get a full weather report. Need to know about a flight? Type in the airline name and flight number. It will give you all the information you need. These are just of a few of Google’s tricks.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 scroll   

n.卷轴，纸卷；(石刻上的)漩涡

参考例句：

• As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时，黄河的景象展现在眼前。
• He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴，以表彰其所做出的成就。

3 punctuation   

n.标点符号，标点法

参考例句：

• My son's punctuation is terrible.我儿子的标点符号很糟糕。
• A piece of writing without any punctuation is difficult to understand.一篇没有任何标点符号的文章是很难懂的。