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电脑已经成为我们日常生活的一部分，可是你知道它们是怎么工作的吗？看起来内部构造很复杂，其实很简单哦。跟我一起来看看吧！
If you're like most people, computers are becoming a part of your life, and it helps to know how they work. They seem complicated inside. But by understanding just a few parts, you can see a simpler side of computers.
This is Computer Hardware In Plain English.
You've seen them. They come in all shapes and sizes, but work pretty much in the same ways. In fact, if you could look inside these computers, they have the same basic parts. It's these parts, the hardware, that do a lot of the work in computers.
To explain, let's look at something you already know: a house. One of the greatest things about living in a house is that you have room for all of your stuff. In fact, many houses have basements that become the perfect places for storing things you want to use later, and the bigger the basement, the more you can store. The same thing is true for computers. Instead of boxes and bicycles, we need a place to store things like photos, music, documents and software. In a computer, it's not the basement but a hard drive. A computer's hard drive is where you keep all the things you want to use later, and like the basement, the bigger the hard drive, the more you can store.
But basements aren't perfect. Going to the basement takes too much time whene