While shopping for my first CD player, I was able to decipher most of the technicalese on the promotional signs. One designation had me puzzled, though, so I called over a salesperson and asked, What does 'hybrid pulse D/A converter' mean?That means, she said, that this machine will read the digital information that is encoded on CDs and convert it into an audio signal - that is, into music.In other words this CD player plays CDs.Exactly.

在購買我的第一部CD唱機(jī)時，我能夠解讀推銷標(biāo)記上面的大多數(shù)技術(shù)語言。但是有一個標(biāo)示卻讓我頗為迷惑，于是我叫過銷售商，問道：‘混合脈沖D/A變換器’是什么意思？它的意思是，她說，這個機(jī)器能夠讀CD碟上加碼的數(shù)字信息，將它轉(zhuǎn)換成聲音信息－也就是說，轉(zhuǎn)換成音樂。換句話說，這個CD唱機(jī)能夠播放CD碟。正是如此。