2009-5-20-笔记

Tweaking the Kernel onYour Linux System

 

If you tweak something, especially part of someone's body, you hold it between your finger and thumb and twist it or pull it.

If you tweak something such as a system or a design, you improve it by making a slight change （Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity.）

bracket/recursive

deprecated

 Today's software systems rely on the concepts of concurrency,modularity and distribution,botn within the design of the operating system and those systems that it supports.

rely [rɪl'aɪ]
If you rely on someone or something, you need them and depend on them in order to live or work properly.
If you can rely on someone to work well or to behave as you want them to, you can trust them to do this.

 

scenario [sɪn'ɑːrioʊ] [-n'er- [US] ]

• 1. If you talk about a likely or possible scenario, you are talking about the way in which a situation may develop.
  2. The scenario of a film is a piece of writing that gives an outline of the story.

Eight months ago my mentor,Amanda,told me of a device invented  in Antagarich that might end the nightmares that have plagued me.

 

 

invent [ɪnv'ent]

If you invent something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it.

If you invent a story or excuse, you try to make other people believe that it is true when in fact it is not.

nightmare [n'aɪtmeəʳ]

•   A nightmare is a very frightening dream.
•  If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you mean that it is very  frightening and unpleasant.
•  If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you are saying in a very emphatic   way that it is irritating because it causes you a lot of trouble. emphasis

plague [pl'eɪɡ]

• 1. A plague is a very infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people. oft supp N
  2. Plague or the plague is a very infectious disease which usually results in death. The patient has a severe fever and swellings on his or her body. oft 'the' N
  3. A plague of unpleasant things is a large number of them that arrive or happen at the same time.

to think of an idea, story etc that is not true, usually in order to deceive people
They invented a very convincing alibi.