对于中国学生来说，很多人在各种各样的考试当中都被英语所难倒，很多同学在考研的时候也因英语分数低而导致考研失败。2017考研的同学们为了避免这种情况，一定要尽早开启2017考研英语的复习。基础阶段，同学们主要搞定词汇、长难句和语法等基础知识。博思君每日给大家分享文都何凯文老师的句子，帮大家打好 2017考研英语的基础。以下是第4句：

　　The Obama administration and police officers around the country say no, and their precedent is the past. Homes and cars do not have unbreakable locks. You cannot buy an uncrackable safe. And terrorists should not be able to buy a hand-held computer that keeps its secrets forever.

　　奥巴马政府和全国各地的警官说不可以，他们引为依据的先例就是“过去”。房屋和汽车都没有打不开的锁。砸不开的保险柜也是买不到的。因此，不应该让恐怖分子买到可以永远保存其秘密的掌上电脑。

　　解析：1.precedent 先例

　　(美国是判例法，任何法律规定都是依照之前的案件判罚结果。)

　　这里：their precedent is the past. 由强调的意味在里面。表示奥巴马政府就是按先例作为依据。

　　2. unbreakable locks

　　uncrackable safe

　　用词很讲究啊!

　　Apple, backed by technologists and civil libertarians, says yes. People live their lives electronically; their phones are a record of loves and fantasies, illnesses and losses. Apple built its recent iPhones to keep that data private and says nothing less than the future of privacy is at stake in this fight.

　　但苹果的观点是可以，这种立场得到了科技业者和捍卫民权的自由意志论者的支持。人们过着数字化的生活，他们的手机记录了爱和幻想，疾病和遗憾。苹果制造最近的几款iPhone时，特意确保了这些数据的私密性，而且明确表示这场纠纷正是使隐私权处于风险之中。 解析：1.People live their lives electronically;

　　人们过着electronically数字化的生活，

　　2. loves and fantasies, illnesses and losses.

　　(爱和幻想，疾病和遗憾)

　　非常棒写作词汇!

　　3. keep that data private

　　保持数据的私密性;

　　4. nothing less than the future of privacy is at stake in this fight.

　　Nothing less than 是个固定短语，(意思是：只有，正是 表示强调。)

　　例句：

　　Nothing less than a worldwide effort can curb and harness the problem of environment.

　　只有全球的努力才能解决环境问题。

　　His negligence was nothing less than criminal.

　　他的粗心大意无异於犯罪。

　　Nothing less than the future of Africa is at stake.