中文
VR 要得到广泛使用，仍有几个障碍。设备昂贵笨重，且需强大的电脑或游戏机配合才能运作。功能不多的话，消费者是不愿花大价钱购入这些装备的；开发人员也不愿耗费资源为狭小的市场制作游戏。
术语补充：
游戏机 gaming console
我的译文
There are still few obstacles in VR’s way to be widely used. Now it still needs powerful computers or gaming consoles to go along with them. Consumers won’t like to spend a lot of money if its functions cannot live up to their expectations; developers also won’t like to make games for a margin market.
经济学人原文
Several obstacles still stand in the way of widespread use. The gear is expensive and clunky, and requires a powerful computer or gaming console to function. Consumers are hesitant to splash out on expensive kit when there isn’t a lot to do with it; developers are reluctant to spend resources making games for a tiny market.
👉stand in the way of
[PHRASE: V inflects] If you stand in the way of something or stand in a person’s way, you prevent that thing from happening or prevent that person from doing something.
The British government would not stand in the way of such a proposal...
It is his decision to go to America and who am I to stand in his way?
📌用in the way 来表示”阻碍"是我之前想到了的，但是没有想到这个是有固定表达的，stand in the way of something.
👉clunky
[ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n] If you describe something asclunky, you mean that it is solid, heavy, and rather awkward.
//...a clunky piece of architecture
📌昂贵笨重——expensive and clunky
👉splash out
[PHRASAL VERB: no passive] If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.[BRIT]
[V P on n] If he wanted to splash out on a new car it would take him a couple of days to get his hands on the cash...
[V P]Can you afford to splash out a little? Is your budget unlimited?
📌注意用词变化。原文表示“不愿”用了are hesitant to和are reluctant to，表示“花费”用了splash out on 和 spend something doing something.
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