未来的冰箱
Refrigerator of the Future
英国正在研制一种未来冰箱，它可以告诉你如何用剩菜做出美味佳肴，而且还可以根据新鲜程度自动调整食物的摆放顺序。
A refrigerator of the future that tells you what to cook with your leftover and automatically re-orders fresh food is being designed in the UK.
这种自洁式"未来冰箱"会自动下订单让超市送货上门，它还会根据需要，把接近保质期的食物放在搁架的最前面。
The self-cleaning "refrigerator of the future" will automatically place supermarket home delivery orders when required and move food near its use by date to the front of the shelves.
研究人员希望这种冰箱可以自动清洁、减少食物浪费并提供食谱，在这些方面能够满足不同国家、不同烹饪风格和不同的季节需求。
Researchers hope the fridge could clean itself, cut down on wasted food and offer Up recipes -which could be tailored to different countries, cuisines and seasons.
由于英国人每年都得超时加班3600万个小时，几乎没有什么闲暇时间去做家务，而这种冰箱则可以帮助人们在繁忙的现代生活中节省宝贵的时间。
With Brits putting in 36 million hours every year of free overtime -leaving little time for household chores -the refrigerator could help save precious time during hectic modern-day lives.
英国中央兰开夏大学的科学家与网上"奥卡多"超市目前正在联合开发这种未来冰箱。
These new developments are in the pipeline thanks to collaborations between scientists at the University of Central Lancashire and online supermarket Ocado.
按照计划，未来冰箱的新特点包括能够扫描搁架上的食物、清点库存，利用这些信息安排晚餐，并自动创建一份超市食物订单。
The planned new features include the ability for refrigerators to scan their shelves to see what is in stock and use this information to both plan meals and automatically place a supermarket food order.
这种智能冰箱的搁架表面将采用"纳米合成技术"，由数百万独立控制的微型瓷砖组成，手感细腻平滑，可以把必须尽快食用的食物挪到冰箱搁架最前面。
The smart fridge will use "nano-articulated technology" shelf surfaces which, whilst smooth to the touch, will have millions of independently controlled micro-tiles which will manoeuvre products which soon need to be eaten to the front of the refrigerator.
冰箱门所采用的超声波扫描技术使得冰箱可以在餐前和餐后"捕捉"到盘子里的食物，这也就意味着它可以对被浪费的食物的种类和数量做出评估。
Ultrasound-scanning technology built into the door will allow the refrigerator to "swipe and capture" the food on a plate before and after mealtime, meaning it can assess what type and amount of food is wasted.
中央兰开夏大学专家西蒙·萨默维尔博士指出菜谱从本质上说是一份食品的存库清单。这样说来，未来冰箱的信息系统可对所有食材进行排列组合，用有限的原料做出许多不同的菜肴，而成功执行这一程序的关键就在于对库存的精确跟踪。"
Dr. Simon Somerville, an expert from the University of Central Lancashire, said: "Cookbooks are essentially inventory lists of food items. To this end the most available information that the refrigerator will have is a set of permutations that allow a set number of ingredients to produce a large number of quite different dishes. The key concept in the successful implementation of this process is accurate inventory tracking."