原文链接：https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-watch-review/
A worthy Apple Watch ____(替代产品)
Samsung's Galaxy Watch has an ____(有争议地) superior design ____(介词) Apple's Watch Series 4.
电池寿命不错。
Spotify premium users can ____(加载) Spotify playlists on the watch.
Samsung has ____(SUPPRESS / EXTINGUISH) some bugs but not all.
To achieve Samsung's battery life numbers, you have to institute battery-saving measures.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a great looking smartwatch that ____ the Apple Watch ____(在...方面战胜) battery life and its wide variety of custom watch faces.
alternative
arguably / over dispute, to
Battery life is good.
load
quash
To achieve Samsung's battery life numbers, you have to institute battery-saving measures.
beats...on
我的手腕比较细, so I initially thought I'd be ____ ____ ____(我应该比较适合) the smaller 42mm model, which comes in midnight black or rose gold and starts at $330 (£279) for the ____ ____ (不支持移动数据的版本), with ____ ____(LTE型号) costing $50 more.
But after ____ ____(尝试) the silver-only 46mm $350 version, I quickly realized I'd made a mistake.
So, regardless of your wrist size or gender, you should definitely ____ ____(看一看) the larger Galaxy Watch before ____ ____(锁定) a specific size.
I've got a small wrist, an candidate for, noncellular editions, LTE models
trying on
check out, locking into
Samsung has ____________________(在产品命名上作了重大革新) to its smartwatch line.
The 46mm Galaxy Watch ____ ____ ____(给人的印象是/看上去好像是) a slightly modified ____(版本/VARIANT) on the Gear 3S Frontier, in fact, while the 42mm Galaxy Watch seems like a more refined, ____(改进的) Gear Sport.
最大的变化在内部。
That's the same as the Gear Sport, but a ____(喜闻乐见的) improvement over the Gear S3's IP68 rating, which was merely "dunk-proof."
The new Galaxy Watch is specifically designed to be ____(游泳可用), including ____(针对) salt water and chlorinated water.
But you should ____(清洗) it afterwards.
made a big naming change
comes across as, take, streamlined
The biggest changes are on the inside.
welcome, swim-proof, for
rinse
Better battery life ratings: The 46mm models is ____________________(根据评测结果，能够大约支撑4天).
下面会对电池寿命部分进行展开。
The new watches track a lot more types of exercises (21 indoor exercises, 39 tracked ____(EXERCISE) ____(总共)).
Fitness and sleep tracking is ____ ____(绑定到程序) Samsung's S-Health app but there are also ____(连接支持) to other fitness apps from Under Armour, MapMyRun, Speedo and others.
rated for around four days.
More on a battery life below.
workout, total
tied into, tie-ins
I didn't think the sleep tracking was ____(WHOLLY) accurate -- it tended to ____(少报/低估) my sleep compared to the Garmin Vivosmart 4 I wore on my other wrist at night.
We're going to ________________(我们后面会跟进看一看) which is more accurate.
You can also manually ____(记录) your water and caffeine intake.
____ ____(专业的/真正的跑步选手) will probably prefer Garmin's Forerunner and Fenix smartwatches for tracking workouts, but judging from the ____ ____(3英里长跑) I did with the Galaxy Watch, _____________________(似乎可以胜任) a running watch after a software update improved GPS performance.
altogether, under-report
follow up to see
log
Serious runners, 3-mile runs, it seemed competent as
____________________(Bixby完成了腕上设备的进击): Bixby, Samsung's voice assistant, is ____ ____(推出) for the first time.
It doesn't work as well as Siri does on the Apple Watch, but it's an improvement over the ____(平平无奇的) S-Voice.
三星支付退步了。
But, _____________________________(当三星支付遇到Gear Sport), Samsung ____ ____(DITCH) its work-anywhere magnetic secure transmission (MST) technology, so it won't work at quite as many places as Samsung phones or older Gear S3 watches.
Bixby hits the wrist, on board
underwhelming
Samsung Pay takes a step back.
as it did with the Gear Sport, left off
Obviously, with a name like Galaxy Watch, this is a device that's optimized for use with Samsung's Galaxy phones. But it does work fine with other Android phones and even iPhones ____ ____ ____(某种程度上).
__________________________________(我们可以从中解读到关于三星品牌的策略，那就是) Samsung consolidating its mobile devices under its strongest mobile brand, it's also about giving its smartwatches a fresh start -- and a fresh look from consumers -- as Apple continues to lead the wearable market and 消费者不再青睐基础的健身追踪产品，转而投向了智能设备的怀抱。
But he didn't think it was that big a leap over the Apple Watch Series 3 and was "对比之前的版本，在可以明确作为一款必须入手的设备这一点上，并没有做得更好, unless you value the possible benefits of new health features.
I tend to agree with his assessment of the Apple Watch Series 4. But while it may indeed be the best overall smartwatch you can buy, ___________________(许多理由) I previously gave for preferring the Galaxy Watch over the Apple Watch ____ ____(仍然成立).
to a degree
As much as this move to the Galaxy brand is about, consumers shift from basic fitness trackers to smarter devices
no closer to being a clear must-have device than it was before
many of the reasons, still stand
From a practical standpoint, the other thing worth noting is that unlike Samsung's watches, Apple's don't have ____ ____(旋转表圈) around the screen to ____________________(起到类似防护轨的作用).
The Apple Watch's screen is left completely exposed and is arguably easier to ding up, despite being made of Corning's scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass.
__________________(既然谈到了Gorilla Glass), ____ ____ ____(就不得不提) that the new Galaxy Watches are equipped with "____(军队级别)" Gorilla DX+ glass.
I'm a fan of the rotating bezel, which may ____ you ____ ____(让你回想起) the original iPod's scroll wheel.
But the rotating bezel somehow seems more ____(更有体验感) -- or perhaps just more watch-like.
a rotating bezel, act as sort of a guard rail
ding up
And while we're talking Gorilla Glass, let me note, military-grade
give...flashbacks to
tactile
There are literally thousands to choose from (________很多都是免费的) and you can store dozens of them on the watch (as noted, both the 42mm and 46mm models come with 4GB of internal storage).
Thanks to the sharp, high-contrast AMOLED display, watch faces look incredibly ____(非常精细逼真).
Apple continues to add to its small collection of watch faces, which includes a _____(半定制的) Siri face.
But it hasn't opened a watch face store yet, despite ____ ____(千呼万唤) on CNET and elsewhere.
many of them free
detailed
semicustomizable
repeated entreaties
With the LTE models, you'll need to get a ____ ____(服务套餐) (usually around $10 a month) to bring cellular access to your watch.
As I said, Samsung claims you can get about four days of use ____ ____(AS FOR) the 46mm model without having to recharge it and three days from the 42mm model.
Samsung touts the Watch's Tizen OS -- optimizing the custom software for the hardware -- ________________(这也是电池寿命的关键所在).
Samsung ____(业务代表) suggested that could go up as the watch ________________________(在日常任务上进行自我优化).
From my experience, ____________________(在频繁使用的情况下), you'll be lucky to get two days
service plan
out of
as the key to its battery longevity
reps, optimizes itself to her daily routines
in a heavy-use scenario
I had no trouble downloading a pretty ____(冗长的) 1GB Spotify playlist using my home Wi-Fi network.
The advantage to being able to store playlists on your watch allows you to play music to Bluetooth headphones directly from your watch without ____ ____(走哪儿都随身携带) your cell phone.
Working out the ____(瑕疵)
lengthy
carrying around
kinks (an imperfection likely to cause difficulties in the operation of something)
In our reviews of earlier Samsung smartwatches, we've always were impressed with their designs but __________________________(对...提不起那么高的兴致) the user experience.
I think Samsung has made progress on the user-friendliness front.
During my early testing, I ran into the occasional kink: the workout app looking like it had launched but it hadn't; being unable to log onto Spotify from certain Wi-Fi networks and not others; some ____(可疑的) ____ ____(爬楼数) and other small ____(让人恼怒的问题).
have been a little less enthusiastic about
front
dubious, stair counting, aggravations
Since its launch, Samsung has updated the watch's firmware a couple of times, as well as updated the ____ ____(伴侣应用) for iOS and Android.
The heart-rate monitor can be somewhat ____(断断续续) during runs, and it stopped working correctly for me after the latest watch update, I was able to fix it by doing a ____ ____(软重置) (you hold the power button for 2 seconds and then tap the screen to shut down the watch).
That glitch aside, the updates appear to have eliminated a number of bugs and the experience of using the watch and ____ ____(通过界面操作) the app to add watch faces and apps continues to improve.
And the fact that you can customize widgets from the watch itself without needing to use the app on the phone is a handy touch.
companion apps
intermitten, soft reset
interfacing with
a handy touch
While it's better than S-Voice, Samsung's voice assistant still ________________________(留下让人想要的东西) compared to Google Assistant, Alexa and even Siri.
The app store still feels somewhat limited and you often need a Gear app to ____ ____ ____(make available) key apps on your Android phone because Tizen and Android are separate operating systems.
But watch apps are never going to be as ____(强健的) as phone ones anyway, and ____ ____ ____(大量的) watch faces more than make up for any app shortcomings.
leaves something to be desired
hook in with
robust (capable of performing without failure under a wide range of conditions ), the plethora of
Ultimately, though, ________________(优点的列表变长了) on the Samsung Galaxy Watch _________, _____________________________________(缺点的列表变短了).
It's also worth noting that we were impressed enough with the latest version of Google's Wear OS to think that it may start to find its _____(施展才华的位置).
the list of positives...is getting longer, while the list of negatives is gettings shorter.
groove (GROOVE: a situation suited to one's abilities or interests : NICHE)