خبر اکونومیست – خطرات احتمالی پهپاد ها
این خبر انگلیسی مربوط به هواپیماها یا پهبادهای کنترل از راه دور می باشد.
متن خبر را بخوانید و سپس معانی لغات را در پایین صفحه مطالعه کنید و به خاطر بسپارید.
سایت اکونومیست یکی از حرفه ای ترین سایت های انگلیسی زبان می باشد که محتوای آن توسط افراد متخصص حوزه های مختلف علوم نوشته می شود.
دامنه لغات انگلیسی به کار رفته در هر خبر بسیار بالا و برای زبان آموزان سطح پیشرفته مناسب است.
اگر خواندن متون خبری سایت اکونومیست برای شما عادت شود، به راحتی می توانید نمره بالای 7 آیلتس آکادمیک در بخش ریدینگ را از آن خود کنید.
سطح این متن: پیشرفته
Drone countermeasures
Hacked off
Guarding against rogue drones could be a legal nightmare
Drone alert
A BLACK package suspended in mid-air under a hovering drone is picked up by the CCTV cameras surrounding Wandsworth prison in south London one evening earlier this year. As it moves closer to one of the windows, a prisoner leans out to snare the delivery with a stick and pull it inside. Prison officers later recover the package and find it is stuffed with drugs and mobile phones.
Such events are becoming increasingly common, not just in the use of drones to deliver contraband but in all sorts of other nefarious activities, from paparazzi spying on celebrities to burglars casing properties. More worrying still are reports of drones being flown near aircraft. Security experts fret about ways terrorists could use drones to drop bombs or biological weapons.
What is needed, many reckon, are drone countermeasures. These already exist for military drones—including shooting them down with lasers. But that is a dangerous way to deal with small consumer drones flying in public areas. So, other answers are being sought in a challenge organised by MITRE, an American non-profit organisation that runs R&D centres funded by the federal government. It has drawn up a list of ten contenders to take part in a trial in August of “non-kinetic” systems capable of detecting and intercepting small drones weighing less than 5lbs (2.3kg). These systems must be good value and capable of wide deployment. The challenge is offering $100,000 of prizes and a chance to catch the eye of federal agencies.
The hurdles posed by the challenge are not what you might expect. “The technology aspects are sometimes the easy part,” says Duane Blackburn, a policy analyst at MITRE. Various rules and regulations mean that interfering with a drone could be a legal nightmare. For example, detecting a small hovering quadcopter drone at any reasonable distance requires a relatively powerful radar. Yet such transmitters are strictly controlled in America under Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulations, making such equipment difficult and expensive to acquire.
The contenders think they can get around that by detecting the radio communications between a drone and its operator. Although drones can fly independently, some form of radio is used by an operator to relay commands, such as to go up or down, left or right, and to provide a video link from the drone’s camera.
ادامه مطالب را در خبر اکونومیست فارسی بخوانید.
Fund:
تهيه وجه کردن ،سرمايه گذارى کردن
مثال:
The necessary budget for the project is going to be privately funded.
بودجه ی لازم برای این طرح از سوی بخش خصوصی تامین خواهد شد.
Contender:
حریف، هماورد
مثال:
One of the contenders for this job.
یکی از مدعیان این شغل
Intercept:
(در هوا) قاپیدن، در هوا زدن، را بستن
مثال:
He wanted to flee the country but he was intercepted at the border.
او می خواست از کشور فرار کند ولی در مرز راهش را بستند.
Hurdle:
دشواری، سد راه، مشکل
مثال:
We still have to clear many hurdles.
ما هنوز بایستی مشکلات زیادی را از جلوی راه خود برداریم.
Regulation:
مقررات
مثال:
According to regulations
طبق مقررات
Detect:
شناسایی کردن، کاشف به عمل آوردن
مثال:
She easily detected the real killer.
او قاتل حقیقی را به آسانی شناسایی کرد.
Burglar: a person who illegally enters buildings and steals things.
دزد، سارق
Lean (v): to (cause to) slope in one direction, or to move the top part of the body in a particular direction
خم شدن یا کردن، کج شدن یا کردن
مثال:
Don’t lean out of the window
از پنجره به بیرون خم نشو.
Snare: to get something or someone you want in a clever way, often by deceiving other people
به دام انداختن، در تله انداختن، گیر انداختن، گرفتار کردن
مثال:
She’s hoping to snare a wealthy husband.
Stuffed with drugs and mobile phones:
آکنده و پرشده از مواد و گوشی های موبایل
Contraband (n) [U]:
کالای ممنوعه، کالای قاچاق
مثال:
The truck was full of contraband.
کامیون پر از کالای قاچاق بود.
Nefarious (adj): evil or immoral
نابکار، بدجنس، بدکار
مثال:
The director of the company seems to have been involved in some nefarious practices/ activities.
Paparazzi: photographers who follow famous people in order to take photographs they can sell to newspapers
عکس برداران (به ویژه آنان که فضولانه از اشخاص مشهور عکس می گیرند و به روزنامه ها می فروشند)
Fret:
نگران و دلواپس بودن
مثال:
She spent the day fretting about/over what she’d said to Nicky.
Reckon (v):
برآورد کردن، تخمین زدن، حدس زدن
مثال:
Experts reckon that about one hundred tons of cement will be needed.
کارشناسان برآورد می کنند که حدود صد تن سیمان مورد نیاز خواهد بود.
Countermeasure (n): an action taken against an unwanted action or situation
اقدام متقابل
مثال:
new countermeasures against terrorism
Rogue (adj): behaving in ways that are not expected or not normal, often in a destructive way
ولگرد،بيخانمان
مثال:
Part of the village was destroyed when a rogue elephant ran amok.
Drone: an aircraft that does not have a pilot, but is operated by radio
هواپيماى کنترل از راه دور
Nightmare (n): a very upsetting or frightening dream
کابوس
مثال:
I shouldn’t have watched that movie – it’ll give me nightmares.
Suspend: to hang
آويزان کردن، معلق کردن
مثال:
The builders worked on wooden platforms, suspended by ropes from the roof of the building.