Let vs. Allow, permit, enable

1. Translate the sentences.

1. The lever opened up a valve which let some water flow out.

2. Early earthquake information could feed directly into the new active-response building designs that change the mechanical properties of a structure to let it ride out shaking and minimize damage both inside and out.

3. The devices being made are too big to be allowed to roam freely around the human body.

4. We're already in the early stages of augmenting and replacing each of our organs, even portions of our brains with neural implants, the most recent versions of which allow patients to download new software to their implants from outside their bodies.

4. One of the most interesting parts of emerging solar technology is a tracking system design, which allows the panels to tilt and follow the sun as it travels across the sky, much as a sunflower does.

5. The access to cheap computing power has permitted scientists to work on many of the hard

problems that are fundamental to making robots practical.

6. Today’s supercomputers run hot, thanks to power-hungry microprocessors that enable sophisticated scientific research and complex financial transactions to be performed in the blink of an eye.

7. The machine-learning technology will enable players to do things such as kick a digital soccer ball or swat a handball in their living rooms simply by mimicking the motion.

8. One approach to handling concurrency is to write multithreaded programs that allow data to travel along many paths.

9. The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts.

10. We abandoned that model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light.

2. Make and write down sentences of your own.

Ex.: The new technique enabled us to achieve the needed result.

a) make let	somebody something	+ V
b) cause enable allow		+ to V

Think, believe, consider, know, etc.

1. Translate the sentences.

1. Man also discovered how to plant crops gathering seed from wild plants, which he knew to be useful.

2. Particle physicists consider the weak force in our universe to be not weak enough.

3. We associate such a meaning with the data, and expect a generic operation to take on a meaning determined by the meaning of its operands

4. One of the earliest particle theories was described in the Book of Optics (1021) by Alhazen, who held light rays to be streams of minute particles that "lack all sensible qualities except energy.

5. Today few people consider expert systems to be real artificial intelligence.

6. Whatever the control unit "believes" to be an order or to be data is treated as such.