cnn 의 iphone 5의 관련기사.

CNN) -- For the most devoted Apple aficionados, it's been a long week.

aficionados 는 매니아 혹은 ... 의 광이란 뜻이다. 처음 보는 단어.

매니아라는 말은 많이 쓰는 것 같은데 낯설다.

devote something to something 

~을 ~에 바치다[쏟다]

I could only devote two hours a day to the work.

나는 하루에 두 시간만 그 일에 쓸 수가 있을 것이다.

devote의 용례를 네이버에서 찾아 보았다.

그러니까 devoted aficionados 라고 하면 '헌신적인 매니아' , '충성도가 높은

 고객' 정도로 번역하면 될 것 같다.

But as Thursday night becomes Friday morning around the world, some of those diehards who spent hours waiting in line were being greeted with open doors at Apple stores and other retailers selling the new iPhone 5.

Announced September 12, the iPhone 5 features a bigger screen, lighter and slimmer frame, faster processor and, for the first time, 4G LTE wireless connections.

아래는 feature에 대한 단어를 네이버에서 검색한 것이다.
뜻이 상당히 많다.
IT 즉 프로그램언어에서는 feature를 '기능' 정도로 번역한다.

얼굴 생김새 

features

2개 뜻 더보기 : features

생김새 

appearance, looks, features

그들은 형제인데 생김새가 너무 다르다

They are brothers, but their facial features are[they look] very different.

용모 容貌 

appearance, look, features

단정한 용모

a decent appearance

인상³ 人相 

(얼굴 생김새)look(s), features, appearance

인상을 쓰다[찌푸리다]

frown

이목구비 耳目口鼻 

ears, eyes, mouth, and nose (용모) features, appearance, looks

이목구비가 뚜렷하다

have well-defined[clean-cut] features

If a handful of tech writers were unimpressed with the specs, that didn't translate into lack of consumer interest.

handful 미국·영국 [^|hӕndfʊl]  영국식   

[명사] ~ (of sth) 줌, 움큼

a handful of rice

쌀 한 줌

[명사] 몇 안 되는 수

handful 이란 단어는 느낌상 '손안 가득히' 라고 추측이 되는데 내생각과는 

참 많이 다르다.

직역하면 '만약 소수의 기술적인 기사를 쓰는 사람들이 iphone은 스펙에 실망

했다면, 그것이 소비자의 적은 관심에 전달되지 않았을 것이다' 인데

의역하면 반대로 소수 정예의 기술적인 기사를 사람들이 iphone 스펙에 만족

했으므로 그것이 소비자들의 적은 관심에도 불구하고 전달되었다' 라고 해야 하나?

어렵다.

Apple took 2 million pre-orders for the phone in the first 24 hours they were available last week, and some analysts think it could sell more than 10 million by Monday.

That first-day total was double the number of iPhone 4S pre-orders the company took last year, and an initial Friday shipping date was quickly pushed back. People who pre-order the phone now, or did so in the past few days, could be waiting more than three weeks for their phones to ship.

For those who opted to get personal, the doors at Apple retail stores open at 8 a.m. local time Friday in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK. The phone will roll out to 22 more countries on September 28.

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Despite morning rainfall in Tokyo, hundreds of eager customers lined up outside an Apple store in the city's Ginza shopping district. Store employees handed out umbrellas to waiting customers, some of whom came sporting face paint to celebrate the occasion.

"It's almost like a festival, people just camping in the center of Ginza, just drinking and playing and talking to each other," said Taiyo Nakashima, a 34-year-old web designer. "It's not really just buying the phone, it's just enjoying the party, really."

In Sydney, Australia, customers camped out in tents and folding chairs. Cheers erupted when the store's doors opened.

Todd Foot told CNN affiliate Network Ten that he waited for more than 70 hours to get Australia's first iPhone for sale and review it online.

The most popular single smartphone since the existence of such a device, the iPhone has sold more than 244 million units around the world since then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled it six years ago.

According to research firm IDC, the iPhone and its iOS operating system make up 16.9% of the worldwide smartphone market, coming in behind the cluster of phones running the Android operating system, which account for 68.1% of the world's smartphones.

The iPhone 5 is 18% thinner and 20% lighter than the current version, the iPhone 4S. It has a 4-inch screen, measured diagonally, compared with a 3.5-inch screen on previous versions of the phone. It is the same width as the iPhone 4S but taller, and the iPhone 5 is made entirely of glass and aluminum.