Virus 病毒

Science fiction writers of the cyberpunk persuasion introduced the world to a new sense of virus: the computer virus. This sense of virus appears in a short story by Gregory Benford published in 1970 in which a malevolent computer program called VIRUS infects computers via their modem connections. Within five years David Gerrold, Michael Crichton, and John Brunner had all published sci-fi novels featuring computer viruses, and from there, computers along with the viruses that aim to corrupt them became part of language and life beyond science fiction.

赛博朋克派系的科幻作家赋予了病毒一词新的含义：计算机病毒。杰格瑞·班福德1970年发表的短篇小说中出现了这种病毒。书中，一个名为VIRUS的恶意程序通过调制解调器感染了电脑。不到五年，大卫·杰洛德、迈克尔·克莱顿、约翰·布鲁勒尔都发表了有关电脑病毒的科幻小说。从此以后，携带病毒的计算机就不单存在于科幻小说中了，它成为了我们语言和生活的一部分。

（中国日报网英语点津 祝兴媛）