desktop computer

基本解释

If anything is a sacred cow (or triceratops) in the office, it’s the desktop computer.
如果办公室里有圣牛(或三角恐龙)，那么它就是台式电脑。
This may not be important (yet!) for the average desktop computer or server, but it is important to users with large disk arrays.
对一般的台式计算机和服务器而言，这可能并不重要，但对大磁盘阵列的用户而言，这就非常重要了。
There’s a tendency, I think, to believe that the spread of the Internet and the desktop computer is inherently connected to the global spread of the English language.
我认为曾经有这样一种趋势，人们相信互联网、台式电脑的广泛应用与英语在全球范围的传播之间是有必然联系的。

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