Peck

由IBM生產的歐洲最快的超級計算機（每秒鐘可以運算40萬億次）在巴塞羅納的一個研究中心落戶。這臺名為“MareNostrum”的計算機屬于巴塞羅納超級計算中心，是全球第四大超級計算機。“MareNostrum”一詞在拉丁語中的意思是“我們的海洋”，預示著巴塞羅納的位置在地中海。外電報道如下：Europe's fastest supercomputer, which can make 40 trillion calculations per second, booted up for the first time at a research center in Barcelona. The "MareNostrum," built by IBM Corp., boasts 40 teraflops of speed. It can make more calculations in one second than a human pecking at a calculator could make in 10 million years. Its memory is equal to the combined memories of nearly 20,000 personal computers, and its storage system has a capacity of 233 terabytes, the equivalent of the information in 29 million books. Peck常和at連用，意為“啄；啄起；小口地吃”，在文中比喻“一下一下地按計算器”，此外還有比喻義“（敷衍地）輕吻，不斷批評”。來看幾個例句：That bird tried to peck the worm.（那只鳥想啄起那只蟲。）The hens pecked at the corn.（母雞在啄食谷子。）He pecked at his dinner.（他慢慢吃著飯。） （中國日報網站編）