文档介绍：1. The college campus, long a place of scholarship and frontiers of new technology, is being transformed into a new age of electronics by a fleet of laptops, smartphones and connectivity 24 hours a day. (Para. 1)
Meaning: For a long time, the college campus has been a place to provide education and produce most advanced new technology. But it is now being completely changed into an electronic-age hot spot by the wide use of laptops, smartphones, and access to the Internet 24 hours a day.
Scholarship: n. [U] the knowledge, work or methods involved in serious study 学问；学识；学术研究 This book series is regarded as a magnificent work of scholarship. 这套丛书被认为是学术巨著。
frontier: n. [C, usu. pl.] the most advanced or recent ideas about sth. （思想的）前沿；（知识的）新领域
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They were very excited about their work on the frontiers of medicine, for they were developing a medicine that might be able to cure lung cancer. 他们对自己在医学研究新领域的 工作感到非常兴奋，因为他们正在研发一种可能治愈肺癌的药物。
electronics: n. [U] 1) electronic equipment or equipment with electronic parts 电子设备；电子仪器 Storms, thunder and lightning can affect a car’s electronics. 暴雨和雷电会影响汽车的电子仪器。
2) the science and technology that uses or produces electronic equipment 电子学；电子技术
He is an electronics engineer, but he likes to write with a pen instead of a computer. 他是电子工程师，但是他喜欢用笔写字，而不是用电脑打字。
Note: The word fleet is used metaphorically here. It is a kind of word play. You could say a fleet of laptops, or an army of laptops, or a host of laptops.
For example: He sat in the back yard in the sun, watching a fleet of white clouds overhead. 他坐在后院晒太阳，看着天上的朵朵白云。
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On a typical modern-day campus, where every building and most outdoor common areas offer wireless Internet access, one student takes her laptop everywhere. In class, she takes notes with it, sometimes instant-messaging or emailing friends if the professor is less than interesting. In her dorm, she instant-messages her roommate sitting just a few feet away. She is tied to her smartphone, wh