牵牛星

Allen, employed by Honeywell, and his friend, Gates, a sophomore at Harvard, immediately set out to adapt the first personal computer language for the Altair, called BASIC.

恒利威的职员艾伦，和他的朋友、哈佛大学大二学生盖茨，马上开发出适合首台个人电脑“牵牛星”的程序语言BASIC。

In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell attributes part of Bill Gates's success to having been born at the right time to take advantage of the Altair 8800, an early do-it-yourself computer kit.

在《异类》（Outliers）一书中，马尔科姆•格拉德韦尔（Malcolm Gladwell）将比尔•盖茨的成功部分归功于他出生在了正确的时机，因而可以充分利用“牵牛星8800”（Altair8800），一款早期个人电脑。

It is a custom for Chinese to watch the Altair and Vega on the chairs.

七夕节坐着仰望牵牛星和织女星是中国人的一个习俗。

Microsoft was formed soon after the introduction of the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems ( MITS) Altair, the first" personal computer," a build-it-yourself kit for hobbyists.

当首台业余爱好者能自己安装的“个人电脑”&MITS的“牵牛星”面世不久，微软成立了。

Bill Gates and Paul Allen seized the opportunity to transform this early PC into a breakthrough& the Altair needed software, a programming language that could make it perform useful computing tasks.

比尔·盖茨和保罗·艾伦抓住了机会，他们将早期的个人电脑变成了时代的突破&“牵牛星”需要软件，它需要一个执行有价值运算任务的程序语言。

MITS promotes Altair BASIC, the computer language developed by Gates and Allen for the Altair computer.

MITS公司推广由盖茨和艾伦开发的“牵牛星”使用的语言BASIC。

Far away twinkles the herd-boy star;' brightly shines the lady of the silver river.

迢迢牵牛星，皎皎河汉女。（《古诗十九首》）

The article inspires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to develop a BASIC Interpreter for the Altair.

文章赞扬了保罗·艾伦和比尔·盖茨开发了牵牛星的BASIC代码。

At night when the sky is dotted with stars, and people can see the Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star, which see each other from afar.

在晴朗的夏秋之夜，天上繁星闪耀，一道白茫茫的银河横贯南北，争河的东西两岸，各有一颗闪亮的星星，隔河相望，遥遥相对，那就是牵牛星和织女星。