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4月1日晚，雷军发文回应小米SU7交通事故。

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🤔️小作业：

1. Why is the absence of lidar technology in Xiaomi's SU7 significant in the context of the accident?

A) It may have made it harder for the vehicle to detect stationary or slow-moving objects.

B) It suggests that Xiaomi's assisted driving system is effective.

C) It proves that lidar is the only reliable sensor technology for autonomous driving.

D) It indicates that the vehicle was malfunctioning before the accident.

无注释原文：

Assisted Driving Tech in Focus After Fatal Electric Car Crash in China

From: The New York Times

China's Xiaomi, a consumer electronics giant turned automaker, said it was cooperating with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its electric vehicles while the driver was using the car's autonomous driving features.

The fatal crash took place one year after the launch of Xiaomi's SU7 electric vehicle, a major shift for a company that had gained a cultlike following for its smartphones and home appliances. And the SU7, which bears a resemblance to the Porsche Taycan at a fraction of the price, has been a breakthrough success in China's cutthroat electric vehicle market. It sold more than 200,000 units in its first year.

The ability of a company with no automotive experience to build and sell a car capable of gaining market share so quickly is a testament to the advantages of China's supply chain of batteries and key components for electric vehicles. It is also a warning to the automotive industry that the competition is no longer limited to traditional car brands but open to almost any company adept at manufacturing electronic products efficiently and inexpensively.

China has aggressively promoted assisted driving or driverless technology in a bid to establish global leadership in the emerging field. Many Chinese makers of electric vehicles include these advanced features on their mass-production cars.

Xiaomi promotes its assisted-driving capabilities on the company's official website. It says the car can automatically accelerate or decelerate, change lanes, enter and exit a highway, and avoid construction. However, it cautions that these “intelligent assisted driving” features cannot “completely replace” a driver controlling the vehicle.

Xiaomi said the car involved in the crash was a standard model of its SU7. That model is not equipped with mounted laser-based sensors known as lidar, an acronym for light detection and ranging systems.

Wang Yinglai, an automobile expert at the Zhejiang Consumer Council, told state-run media that a car driving on the highway would have more difficulty detecting stationary or slow-moving objects in front without that laser-based sensor.

In a second statement late Tuesday, Xiaomi's automobile division said that it had tried with permission and guidance from the police to meet with the families earlier in the day, but that the company was still waiting to hear back.

In a separate post on social media, Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder and chief executive, expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased and thanked people for their “attention and criticism.” He said there were many questions that the company could not answer at the moment about the crash, but he pledged that Xiaomi would not try to avoid responsibility.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

Assisted Driving Tech in Focus After Fatal Electric Car Crash in China

From: The New York Times

China's Xiaomi, a consumer electronics giant turned automaker, said it was cooperating with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its electric vehicles while the driver was using the car's autonomous driving features.

转型汽车制造商的中国消费电子巨头小米表示，公司正在配合警方调查一起致命车祸，该事故涉及该公司的一辆电动汽车，事发时司机正在使用该车的自动驾驶功能。

...-turned-...，字面意思也是很好理解，xxx转变为xxx的，turned可以解释为“...出身的”（someone who has done one job and then does something completely different），比如，English-teacher-turned-founder of ...英语老师出身的xxx公司创始人，an actor turned politician 演员出身的政治家，a housewife turned author 家庭主妇出身的作家。

The fatal crash took place one year after the launch of Xiaomi's SU7 electric vehicle, a major shift for a company that had gained a cultlike following for its smartphones and home appliances. And the SU7, which bears a resemblance to the Porsche Taycan at a fraction of the price, has been a breakthrough success in China's cutthroat electric vehicle market. It sold more than 200,000 units in its first year.

这起致命车祸发生在小米推出SU7电动汽车一年后，对于这家因其智能手机和家用电器而获得狂热追随者的公司来说，生产电动汽车是一个重大转变。外形酷似保时捷Taycan但价格只是其一个零头的SU7的在中国残酷的电动汽车市场取得了突破性的成功。第一年就卖出了20多万台。

cult /kʌlt/ 作名词，表示“风行；流行；崇拜”，英文解释为“someone or something that has become very popular with a particular group of people”如：the cult of celebrity 名人崇拜。

作形容词，cult /kʌlt/ 表示“热门的；流行的；被视为偶像的”，英文解释为“liked very much by a particular group of people”举个🌰：The singer had a cult following in the 1970s. 这位歌手在20世纪70年代拥有一批狂热的追随者。

cultlike是由cult + -like构成的复合词。cultlike following 指 “类似狂热信仰般的追随者群体”，形容某品牌或产品的粉丝特别忠诚、狂热。

cult：原意是“宗教崇拜”，但在流行文化中通常指“狂热的追随者”或“小众但忠实的粉丝群体”，比如“a cult following”表示一批极度热爱某品牌、人物或作品的铁杆粉丝。

-like：表示“类似于……的”，比如childlike（孩子般的）、dreamlike（梦幻般的）。

appliance /əˈplaɪ.əns/ 表示“装置，器械；（尤指）家用电器”，英文解释为“a device, machine, or piece of equipment, especially an electrical one that is used in the house, such as a cooker or washing machine”如：electric/domestic/household appliances 电器/家用电器/家电。

1）表示“忍受；容忍；经受；承担”，英文解释为“to accept, tolerate, or endure something, especially something unpleasant”举个🌰：The strain must have been enormous but she bore it well. 当时压力一定很大，但她挺过来了。

2）熟词僻义，表示“生（孩子）；结（果实）；开（花）”，英文解释为“to give birth to young, or (of a tree or plant) to give or produce fruit or flowers”举个🌰：She had borne three children by the time she was 30. 她到30岁时已经生了3个孩子。

3）表示“带有（标记或特征）”，英文解释为“If something bears a particular mark or characteristic, it has that mark or characteristic.”举个🌰：The houses bear the marks of bullet holes. 房屋带有子弹的痕迹。

表示“（尤指样子）相似，类似 ”，英文解释为“if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar, especially in the way they look”，用法：bear a (close/striking/uncanny etc) resemblance to sb/sth (= look like) 与某人/某事物（非常/惊人地/不可思议地等）相似；bear little/no resemblance to sb/sth，几乎毫无/没有相似之处，举个🌰：She bears a striking resemblance to her mother. 她酷似她的母亲。

fraction /ˈfræk.ʃən/ 表示“少量”，英文解释为“A fraction of something is a tiny amount or proportion of it.”举个🌰：She hesitated for a fraction of a second before responding. 她犹豫了一下才回应。

📍At a fraction of sth意味着以某物的极低价格或者比其他事物小得多的尺寸、数量等。换句话说，就是以远低于原价的价格，或者比其他事物占用更少的资源或空间。（for a much lower price than something else, or in a much smaller size, amount, etc. than something else）

cutthroat /ˈkʌt.θrəʊt/ 表示“激烈的；残酷无情的；不择手段的”，英文解释为“not involving considering or worrying about any harm caused to others”如：the cutthroat world of journalism 竞争激烈的新闻界。

The ability of a company with no automotive experience to build and sell a car capable of gaining market share so quickly is a testament to the advantages of China's supply chain of batteries and key components for electric vehicles. It is also a warning to the automotive industry that the competition is no longer limited to traditional car brands but open to almost any company adept at manufacturing electronic products efficiently and inexpensively.

一家没有汽车制造经验的公司能够制造并销售一款汽车，并能如此迅速地获得市场份额，这证明了中国电动汽车电池和关键零部件供应链的优势。这也是对汽车行业的一个警告——竞争不再局限于传统汽车品牌，而是向几乎所有擅长高效、廉价制造电子产品的公司开放。

testament /ˈtes.tə.mənt/ 表示“证明；验证”，英文解释为“proof”举个🌰：The detail of her wildlife paintings is (a) testament to (= proof of) her powers of observation. 她画野生动物十分细致，这证明她有很强的观察能力。

adept /əˈdɛpt/ 表示“娴熟的”，英文解释为“Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully.”举个🌰： He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media. 他通常十分擅长于使他的私生活远离媒体。

🎬电影《太空堡垒卡拉狄加：利刃》（Battlestar Galactica Razor）中的台词提到：And since it's so adept at mimicking human feeling, 既然它能如此逼真地模仿人类情感

China has aggressively promoted assisted driving or driverless technology in a bid to establish global leadership in the emerging field. Many Chinese makers of electric vehicles include these advanced features on their mass-production cars.

中国积极推动辅助驾驶或无人驾驶技术，希望在这个新兴领域建立全球领导地位。许多中国电动汽车制造商在其批量生产的汽车中加入了这些先进功能。

Xiaomi promotes its assisted-driving capabilities on the company's official website. It says the car can automatically accelerate or decelerate, change lanes, enter and exit a highway, and avoid construction. However, it cautions that these “intelligent assisted driving” features cannot “completely replace” a driver controlling the vehicle.

小米在公司官网上宣传其辅助驾驶功能。该公司表示，它的汽车可以自动加速或减速，改变车道，进出高速公路，避开施工。然而，该公司警告称，这些“智能辅助驾驶”功能并不能“完全取代”驾驶员控制车辆。

decelerate /ˌdiːˈsel.ər.eɪt/ 表示“（使）降低速度；（使）减速”，英文解释为“to reduce the speed that a vehicle is travelling at”举个🌰：The car decelerated at the sight of the police car. 那辆汽车一见警车就慢了下来。

accelerate /əkˈsel.ə.reɪt/ 表示“（车辆或驾驶者）加速”，英文解释为“When a vehicle or its driver accelerates, the speed of the vehicle increases.”举个🌰：I accelerated to overtake the bus. 我加速超过了公共汽车。

caution /ˈkɔː.ʃən/ 作名词，表示“谨慎，小心，慎重”，英文解释为“great care and attention”举个🌰：We need to proceed with/exercise caution (= be careful in taking action, making decisions, etc.) 我们必须谨慎行事。

作动词，表示“告诫，提醒”，英文解释为“to warn someone”举个🌰：The newspaper cautioned its readers against buying shares without getting good advice first. 报纸告诫读者事先没有获得好的建议，不要购买股票。

Xiaomi said the car involved in the crash was a standard model of its SU7. That model is not equipped with mounted laser-based sensors known as lidar, an acronym for light detection and ranging systems.

小米表示，发生事故的汽车是其SU7的标准型号。该型号没有安装lidar，也就是“光探测和测距系统”。

laser /ˈleɪ.zər/ 表示“激光（器）”，英文解释为“(a device that produces) a powerful, narrow beam of light that can be used as a tool to cut metal, to perform medical operations, or to create patterns of light for entertainment”如：laser beam 激光束。

acronym /ˈæk.rə.nɪm/表示“首字母缩拼词，首字母组合词，首字母缩略词”，英文解释为“an abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as a word”举个🌰：AIDS is an acronym for "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome". AIDS （艾滋病）是 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome（获得性免疫缺损综合征）的首字母缩拼词。

📍词根“acro-”意味着“高处，尖端”，而“-nym”意味着“名字”，所以“acronym”指的是由几个词的首字母组成的词。

📍acronym和initialism都是由首字母缩写形成的词，但它们之间有一个主要的区别：Acronym（首字母缩略词）：可以作为一个单词来发音。例如：NASA（National Aeronautics and Space Administration，美国国家航空航天局），它读作 /ˈnæsə/，像一个单词一样。而Initialism（字母缩略词）：同样由一系列单词的首字母组成，但每个字母都单独发音，而不是合成一个单词的发音。例如：FBI（Federal Bureau of Investigation，美国联邦调查局），它读作 /ˌɛfˈbiːˈaɪ/，每个字母分开发音。

📍简而言之，如果你将缩写作为一个单词来发音，那么它是一个acronym；如果你逐个字母发音，那么它是一个initialism。

Wang Yinglai, an automobile expert at the Zhejiang Consumer Council, told state-run media that a car driving on the highway would have more difficulty detecting stationary or slow-moving objects in front without that laser-based sensor.

浙江消费者委员会的汽车专家汪英来告诉官方媒体，如果没有这种基于激光的传感设备，在高速公路上行驶的汽车将更难探测到前方的低速或静止物体。

stationary /ˈsteɪ.ʃən.ər.i/ 表示“静止的；不变的；稳定的”，英文解释为“not moving, or not changing”如：a stationary car/train 停着的汽车/火车。

In a second statement late Tuesday, Xiaomi's automobile division said that it had tried with permission and guidance from the police to meet with the families earlier in the day, but that the company was still waiting to hear back.

在周二晚些时候的第二份声明中，小米的汽车部门表示，在警方的许可和指导下，该公司曾试图在当天早些时候与遇难者家属会面，但公司仍在等待回复。

In a separate post on social media, Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder and chief executive, expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased and thanked people for their “attention and criticism.” He said there were many questions that the company could not answer at the moment about the crash, but he pledged that Xiaomi would not try to avoid responsibility.

小米公司创始人兼首席执行官雷军在社交媒体上另行发文，向死者家属表示哀悼，并感谢人们的“关注和批评”。他表示，关于这起事件，目前有许多问题公司无法回答，但他保证小米不会试图逃避责任。

condolence /kənˈdəʊ.ləns/ 1）复数形式，表示“哀悼”，英文解释为“When you offer or express your condolences to someone, you express your sympathy for them because one of their friends or relatives has died recently.”举个🌰：He expressed his condolences to the families of the people who died in the incident. 他向那次事故遇难者家属表达了哀悼。

2）不可数形式，表示“吊唁”，英文解释为“A message of condolence is a message in which you express your sympathy for someone because one of their friends or relatives has died recently.”举个🌰：She sent him a letter of condolence. 她给他发了一封吊唁信。

pledge /pledʒ/ 1）作动词，表示“承诺，保证（做某事）；保证给予（某物）”，英文解释为“When someone pledges to do something, they promise in a serious way to do it. When they pledge something, they promise to give it.”举个🌰：He pledges support and offers to help in any way that he can. 他承诺给予支持并提供力所能及的帮助。

2）表示“抵押”，英文解释为“If you pledge something such as a valuable possession or a sum of money, you leave it with someone as a guarantee that you will repay money that you have borrowed.”举个🌰：He asked her to pledge the house as security for a loan. 他要她抵押房子作为贷款担保。

3）作名词，表示“誓言；诺言；保证”，英文解释为“When someone makes a pledge, they make a serious promise that they will do something.”举个🌰：The meeting ended with a pledge to step up cooperation between the states of the region. 会议以加快该地区州之间合作的承诺结束。

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