时隔十余年谷歌再度推出智能眼镜

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1. According to the article, what is a key difference between the new Google smart glasses and the version with an in-lens display?

A. The new glasses are audio-only, while the display version will show text and information.

B. The new glasses are more expensive than the display version.

C. The display version will be released before the new glasses.

D. The new glasses are designed for developers, while the display version is for consumers.

无注释原文：

Google to release first smart glasses since Google Glass flop

From: BBC

More than a decade after its famed Google Glass failure, Google is going to try again with smart glasses.

The glasses will go on sale sometime in autumn and feature a small camera in the frames and small speakers in the arms, allowing Google's artificial intelligence (AI) product Gemini to interact with a user.

Google revealed the glasses for the first time during its annual developer conference on Tuesday, offering one style designed by Warby Parker and another by Gentle Monster.

Google Glass was launched in 2013 but pulled in 2015, just seven months after its UK release, after a backlash around price and privacy.

The new smart glasses will let a wearer "stay hands free and heads up," according to Shahram Izadi, a Google executive who spoke during Tuesday's event.

The glasses will work with both Android and Apple's IOS devices, Google said.

"They are designed to give you all-day help with Gemini that's spoken into your ear privately rather than shown on a display," Izadi added.

While the company is working on a version of the glasses that will have an in-lens display capable of showing a wearer text and information, instead of being audio-only, those glasses are not set to be released yet.

Izadi said during Tuesday's event in Mountain View, California that more information about the in-lens glasses will come out later this year.

He added that developers are already working on applications for the display glasses.

The core features of Google's intelligent eyewear appear similar to those available in Meta's offering of AI or smart glasses, which have a small camera and speakers for verbal and audio communication with Meta AI.

Meta's Ray-Bans have already sold seven million pairs, according to the company.

However, the same privacy concerns that Google Glass faced over a decade ago are already bubbling up with Meta's glasses.

People are being unwittingly filmed in public and in private, often by people wearing Meta's glasses, and only finding out when the videos show up online.

Snap is also expected to release a new version of its smart glasses this year, and Apple is reportedly working on a glasses product, too.

Investor Christine Tsai of 500 Global, an early stage venture capital firm, said Google's re-entry into the glasses space is a positive development.

"It's good for consumers. And it's good for early stage start ups, where we tend to invest, because they're a platform where people can build more capabilities," said Tsai who attended Tuesday's conference.

Smart glasses are gaining traction as "that next modality" to follow the success of the smartphone, she added.

Developer Anil Shah, who is building an events management app called tixfix.ai, said smart glasses hold the promise of integrating many services that Google already provides, like Google Maps and Google Voice.

"It's a great addition to their product line-up," he said.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为BBC官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

Google to release first smart glasses since Google Glass flop

From: BBC

More than a decade after its famed Google Glass failure, Google is going to try again with smart glasses.

备受关注的Google Glass失败十多年后，谷歌（Google）将再次尝试推出智能眼镜。

famed /feɪmd/ 表示“著名的，闻名的”，英文解释为“famous or known to many people”举个🌰：It's a city famed for its ski slopes and casinos. 这座城市以其滑雪场和赌场闻名。

The glasses will go on sale sometime in autumn and feature a small camera in the frames and small speakers in the arms, allowing Google's artificial intelligence (AI) product Gemini to interact with a user.

这款眼镜预计于今年秋季上市，镜框内设有小型摄影机，镜脚内则配备扬声器，让谷歌的人工智能产品Gemini可与使用者互动。

frame /freɪm/ 表示“（图画、门、窗的）框，框架”，英文解释为“a border that surrounds and supports a picture, door, or window”如：a picture frame 画框，也可以表示“帧；（摄影胶片的）画格；（电视或电影的）画面，镜头”，英文解释为“one of the pictures on a strip of photographic film, or one of the single pictures that together form a television or cinema film”

也可以表示“（斯诺克等游戏的）一局”，英文解释为“the size and shape of someone's body”举个🌰：She lost the next two frames. 她输掉了接下来的两局。

📍time frame /ˈtaɪm ˌfreɪm/ 表示“（安排进行某活动的）时间框架，时间范围”，英文解释为“a period of days, weeks, months, etc. within which an activity is intended to happen”举个🌰：Have you set a time frame for completing the job? 你给这项工作定完成时限了吗？The time frame within which all this occurred was from February 2015 to May 2026. 这一切都是在2015年2月到2026年5月的时间范围内发生的。

作动词，frame /freɪm/ 1）可以表示“（措词谨慎地）表达，说出”，英文解释为“to express something choosing your words carefully”举个🌰：The interview would have been more productive if the questions had been framed more precisely. 如果当时问题提得更确切些，采访就会更有成效。

2）frame /freɪm/ 表示“给（图画等）装（镜）框”，英文解释为“to fix a border around a picture, etc. and often glass in front of it”举个🌰：I keep meaning to get that photo framed. 我一直打算给那张照片镶上框。

📍framed /freɪmd/ 表示“加外框的”，英文解释为“surrounded by a border”如：a framed photograph 用像框装起来的照片。

Google revealed the glasses for the first time during its annual developer conference on Tuesday, offering one style designed by Warby Parker and another by Gentle Monster.

谷歌在周二（5月19日）的年度开发者大会上首次展示这款产品，并推出由Warby Parker和镜特梦（Gentle Monster）设计的两种款式。

reveal /rɪˈviːl/ 1）表示“揭露；泄露；透露”，英文解释为“to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret”举个🌰：He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians. 他因为向俄国人泄密而被监禁。

2）表示“使显露；展现；显示”，英文解释为“to allow something to be seen that, until then, had been hidden”举个🌰：A gap in the clouds revealed the Atlantic far below. 从云缝中可以看到远在下方的大西洋。

Google Glass was launched in 2013 but pulled in 2015, just seven months after its UK release, after a backlash around price and privacy.

Google Glass于2013年推出，但在2015年于英国上市仅七个月后便因价格与隐私争议引发反对而停产。

backlash /ˈbæk.læʃ/ 表示“强烈抵制，集体反对”，英文解释为“a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, for example to sth that has recently changed in society”如：the backlash against xx 对xx的强烈反对。

📺美剧《无耻之徒》（Shameless）第一季中的台词提到：There will be a backlash if people don't stop 字幕组翻译为：如果人们不停止...的话，迟早会出大事。

The new smart glasses will let a wearer "stay hands free and heads up," according to Shahram Izadi, a Google executive who spoke during Tuesday's event.

在当天活动中发言的谷歌高管沙赫拉姆・伊扎迪（Shahram Izadi）表示，新款智能眼镜旨在让用户“解放双手、抬头专注”。

The glasses will work with both Android and Apple's IOS devices, Google said.

谷歌表示，该眼镜将同时支持安卓（Android）和苹果（Apple）的 iOS设备。

"They are designed to give you all-day help with Gemini that's spoken into your ear privately rather than shown on a display," Izadi added.

伊扎迪补充说：“这款眼镜的设计，是让Gemini能全天候以语音方式在耳边提供协助，而不是透过屏幕显示。”

While the company is working on a version of the glasses that will have an in-lens display capable of showing a wearer text and information, instead of being audio-only, those glasses are not set to be released yet.

公司目前亦在开发具备镜片显示功能的版本，可直接向佩戴者呈现文字与资讯，而非仅靠语音，但该版本尚未准备好推出。

in-lens表示“镜片内的；内置于镜片中的”，英文解释为“In-lens means located or built into the lens of a pair of glasses.”

Izadi said during Tuesday's event in Mountain View, California that more information about the in-lens glasses will come out later this year.

伊扎迪在加州山景城的活动上表示，有关这类显示型眼镜的更多细节将于今年稍后公布。

He added that developers are already working on applications for the display glasses.

他补充，目前已有开发者为这类显示型眼镜开发应用程序。

The core features of Google's intelligent eyewear appear similar to those available in Meta's offering of AI or smart glasses, which have a small camera and speakers for verbal and audio communication with Meta AI.

这款智能眼镜的核心功能与Meta的同类产品相似，后者同样在镜框内设有摄影机与扬声器，用于透过语音与Meta AI互动。

1）表示“用品；剧作；作品；供消遣的产品”，英文解释为“something that is produced for other people to use, watch, enjoy etc.”如：the latest offering from the writer 那位作家的最新作品。

2）表示“祭品；供品”，英文解释为“An offering is a gift that people offer to their God or gods as a form of worship.”

📺美剧《康斯坦丁》（Constantine）中的台词提到：we present you offerings from life into death 吾等向汝供奉由生入死的祭品。

verbal /ˈvɜːbəl/ 1）表示“口头的”，英文解释为“You use verbal to indicate that something is expressed in speech rather than in writing or action.”举个🌰：They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse. 他们被推来搡去，并受到了潮水般的辱骂。

2）表示“词语的；文字的”，英文解释为“You use verbal to indicate that something is connected with words and the use of words.”举个🌰：The test has scores for verbal skills, mathematical skills, and abstract reasoning skills. 该项测试对文字表达技能、数学技能和抽象推理技能进行记分。

🎬电影《旗鼓相当》（Grudge Match）中的台词提到：And I say, "Well, women are more verbal than men." 然后我说“女人比男人更善于言辞。”

Meta's Ray-Bans have already sold seven million pairs, according to the company.

Meta的雷朋（Ray-Ban）智能眼镜已售出700万副。

However, the same privacy concerns that Google Glass faced over a decade ago are already bubbling up with Meta's glasses.

然而，与十多年前Google Glass面临的情况类似，隐私问题再次引发关注。

bubble /ˈbʌb.əl/ up表示“升到液体表面；变得明显，涌现”，英文解释为“to rise to the surface or become obvious”举个🌰：She laughs, a tinkling musical child’s laugh, bubbling up out of her. 她笑了，发出清脆悦耳的童声欢笑。Interesting ideas about education and healthcare are bubbling up all over the country. 有关教育和医疗有意思想法在全国各地涌现出来。

People are being unwittingly filmed in public and in private, often by people wearing Meta's glasses, and only finding out when the videos show up online.

有些人在公共或私人环境中被佩戴Meta智能眼镜的人录影，却往往直到影片在网上出现时才得知。

unwittingly /ʌnˈwɪt.ɪŋ.li/ 表示“不知情地；无意地”，英文解释为“in a way that is done without knowing or planning”举个🌰：I apologize for any anxiety which I may, unwittingly, have caused. 对于我可能在不知不觉中引起的任何焦虑，我深表歉意。

Snap is also expected to release a new version of its smart glasses this year, and Apple is reportedly working on a glasses product, too.

Snap预计今年亦会推出新版智能眼镜，而苹果亦传出正在研发类似产品。

Investor Christine Tsai of 500 Global, an early stage venture capital firm, said Google's re-entry into the glasses space is a positive development.

创投公司500 Global的投资人蔡李成美（Christine Tsai）表示，谷歌重返智能眼镜市场是正面发展。

venture capital /ˈven.tʃə ˌkæp.ɪ.təl/ 表示“风险资本；投机资本；风险投资”，英文解释为“money that is invested or is available for investment in a new company, especially one that involves risk”

"It's good for consumers. And it's good for early stage start ups, where we tend to invest, because they're a platform where people can build more capabilities," said Tsai who attended Tuesday's conference.

“这对消费者有利，也对我们这类投资早期新创的投资机构有利，因为它为开发新功能提供了一个平台。”出席周二发布会的蔡李成美说。

startup / start-up /ˈstɑːt.ʌp/ 表示“刚起步的小企业，新兴小型企业；初创公司”，英文解释为“a small business that has just been started”如：start-up costs 创业成本，举个🌰：Start-ups are very vulnerable in the business world. 商界中刚起步的小企业非常脆弱。

Smart glasses are gaining traction as "that next modality" to follow the success of the smartphone, she added.

她补充，智能眼镜正逐渐成为继智能手机之后“下一个重要运算平台”。

traction /ˈtræk.ʃən/ 1）表示“拖拉，牵引；牵引力”，英文解释为“the pulling of a heavy load over a surface, or the power used in this”

2）表示“（观点或产品等）变得流行（或被接受）”，英文解释为“the fact of an idea, product, etc. becoming popular or being accepted”举个🌰：In our digital age, it takes less time for new words and phrases to gain traction than it did in the past. 在当前数码时代，新词或词组流行起来要过去快得多。

modality /məʊˈdæl.ə.ti/ 表示“模式；形式；方式”，英文解释为“a particular way of doing or experiencing something”举个🌰：A variety of modalities of communication can be used to transmit health warnings to the public. 有多种传播模式可用来将健康警报传递给公众。

Developer Anil Shah, who is building an events management app called tixfix.ai, said smart glasses hold the promise of integrating many services that Google already provides, like Google Maps and Google Voice.

正在开发活动管理应用tixfix.ai的开发者阿尼尔・沙阿（Anil Shah）表示，智能眼镜有潜力整合谷歌现有的多项服务，例如谷歌地图和语音功能。

"It's a great addition to their product line-up," he said.

他说：“这是其产品线的一项很好的补充。”

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