極客必知：這些炫酷科幻詞是怎么來的

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.

賽博朋克派系的科幻作家賦予了病毒一詞新的含義：計算機病毒。杰格瑞·班福德1970年發表的短篇小說中出現了這種病毒。書中，一個名為VIRUS的惡意程序通過調制解調器感染了電腦。不到五年，大衛·杰洛德、邁克爾·克萊頓、約翰·布魯勒爾都發表了有關電腦病毒的科幻小說。從此以后，攜帶病毒的計算機就不單存在于科幻小說中了，它成為了我們語言和生活的一部分。

（中國日報網英語點津 祝興媛）