A computing legend has died. The inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, suffered a heart attack on Saturday, according to reports. He was 74 years old.
一個有關于電腦的傳奇人物去世了。他就是電子郵件之父Ray Tomlinson 。據報道，他于上周六晚因為心臟病突發而逝世，享年76.
suffer v. 遭受
heart attack n. 心臟病發
Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map,
謝謝你，發明了email 并把@帶到了我們的世界。
Pay tribute to 向 … 致敬
Tomlinson chose the @ symbol to connect the username with the destination address and it has become part of the international language of communication.
湯姆林森選擇@符號連接的用戶名目的地址,已經成為國際語言交流的一部分。
symbol n. 符號
destination n. 目的地
username n. 用戶名
the "@" sign was mundane, not only was it a little-used symbol, but "it's the only preposition on the keyboard.”
這個@沒啥好特別的，它只是我們鍵盤上唯一一個介詞而已。
mundane adj. 普通的
little－used 很少使用
preposition n. 介詞
Before his invention, electronic messages could be shared only on a very limited network.
在這個發明出現以前，電子郵件只能在一個很小的范圍內被共享。
At that time, computer were a scarce resource.
因為在那個時候，電腦是一個很稀有的東西。
scarce adj. 缺乏的
For a couple decades thereafter, email was a novelty.
之后很長時間，email一直是一個新奇的東西。
novelty n. 新奇的東西
thereafter adv. 之后
It wasn't until the explosion of the personal computer, followed by online services in the late '80s and early '90s that email became widespread.
直到PC的廣泛普及，電子郵件才真正開始普遍起來。
explosion n. 爆發式增長
widespread adj. 普遍的
At first, his email messaging system was not considered important.
最初，他的郵件系統沒有被很重視。
When Tomlinson showed it to his colleague and said "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on."
colleague ／workmate n. 同事
It altered the way people communicate both in business and in personal life, affecting how “millions of people shop, bank, and keep in touch with friends and family, whether they are across town or across oceans”.
他改變了人們在工作以及生活方面的交流方式，影響了上百萬人購物、儲蓄以及同朋友或家人聯系的方式。不管他們相隔十里還是跨越大洋。更

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