时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2011年VOA慢速英语(十一)月


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Technology Report - India on Way to Topping US in Internet Users 1


 


This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.



India could pass the United States in the number of Internet users in less than two years. A new report says India reached one hundred twelve million users in September. That makes India the third largest Internet market after China and the United States.



China reported four hundred eighty-five million Internet users in June, and there are more than two hundred seventy million Internet users in the United States.



The Internet and Mobile 2 Association 3 of India says Internet growth was especially strong among people in smaller towns and cities.



There was also a large increase in Internet use among school-aged children and college students. This is partly because of the growing number of e-learning services and educational websites.



Subho Roy is president of the Internet and Mobile Association of India. He says another big change this year is that more and more people are using the Internet from home.









A man sends a text message from his mobile phone at an Internet cafe in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata




SUBHO ROY: "Last year the old pattern was still there -- cyber cafes being top, then office, and then home. So this dramatic 4 change has come about this year -- a very, very great movement in the home-use segment 5. People are probably buying their own broadband connections and accessing it from their own devices 6 rather than going to common service points."This growth in Internet use has also led to an increase in online businesses.



Deepinder Goyal owns Zomato.com. His website provides information about restaurants and nightlife activities across India. Mr. Goyal got the idea for Zomato while working at a consulting firm three years ago. He and his coworkers kept restaurant menus in their office so they could order lunch from different places.



DEEPINDER GOYAL: "We scanned 7 these menu cards and put them online. So starting an Internet venture 8 was actually an experiment and it worked out really well and currently 9 we are getting around two million people just looking up menu cards on our website every month." Zomato now provides information on more than seventeen thousand restaurants across India. It covers areas from the Dehli national capital region 10 to Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.



Deepinder Goyal says the growth in Internet use at home has been good for business. Zomato used to depend mostly on business people -- or "corporates" -- going online at work.



DEEPINDER GOYAL: "So earlier we used to see that around fifty to sixty percent of our traffic used to spike 11 at lunches on weekdays. That was due to corporates accessing our website when they used to order lunch. And right now, weekends are also very heavy traffic for us."



In a separate report, GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, says Africa is the world's fastest growing mobile phone market. Africa has the second largest number of mobile phone connections after Asia.



And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report, written by June Simms. Transcripts 12, MP3s and podcasts are at voanews.cn. I'm June Simms.

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Contributing: Anjana Pasricha



用户,使用者( user的名词复数 )
  • The new software will prove a boon to Internet users. 这种新软件将会对互联网用户大有益处。
  • Ramps should be provided for wheelchair users. 应该给轮椅使用者提供坡道。
adj.可移动的,易变的,机动的;n.运动物体
  • The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.那位老妇人每天上午坐在一把可携带使用的椅子上。
  • She's much more mobile now that she's bought a car.自从她买了汽车后,活动量就大多了。
n.联盟,协会,社团;交往,联合;联想
  • Our long association with your company has brought great benefits.我方和贵公司的长期合作带来了巨大的利益。
  • I broke away from the association ten years ago.我10年前就脱离了那个团体。
adj.引人注目的;戏剧的;演戏的
  • She plays a very dramatic woman with flashing eyes.她饰演一位双眼闪光的引人注目的妇人。
  • His speech was dramatic.他的演说激动人心。
n.切片,部分,段,节
  • The company dominates this segment of the market.这家公司控制着这一部分市场。
  • Give me a segment of a tangerine to taste.给我一瓣柑橘尝一尝。
n.设备;装置( device的名词复数 );花招;(为实现某种目的的)计划;手段
  • electrical labour-saving devices around the home 节省劳力的各种家用电器
  • modern labour-saving devices such as washing machines and dishwashers 诸如洗衣机和洗碗机之类的现代化省力设备
经(擦伤仪)仔细检查的
  • He scanned the horizon for any sign of land. 他仔细眺望地平线,找寻陆地的踪影。
  • She scanned his face to see if he was telling the truth. 她审视着他的脸,看他讲的是否是真话。
v.敢于,大胆表示;冒险,拼,闯;n.冒险
  • He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业。
  • Don't venture into the jungle without a guide.没有向导,不要冒险到丛林里去。
adv.通常地,普遍地,当前
  • Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
  • Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。
n.地区,地带,区域;范围,幅度
  • The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
  • It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。
n.长钉,钉鞋;v.以大钉钉牢,使...失效
  • The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
  • They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
abstractify
acnemia
additional tax
amphigamy(renner 1916)
Amsil silver copper
Bacab
baggable
base64
centrifugal pump performance
cephalin-cholesterol flocculation
chaff dispensing device
charmphysics
colour fastness to perspiration
conducting fire back to its origin
contextual discourse
cosmicism
dams
Davidstow
dead beat instrument
Deliva
demur the instance
diaphragm cylinder
discalceated
draw up a list
drawgate
E.S.A.
ecological validity
esthetes
feather-light
floor plan graph
fluidized-bed gasification
forebodement
freeish
fringed geckoes
fully directional submersible vehicle
general call to all stations
give one's regards
glucocentric
half-off
hammer stalk
have one's an ear to the ground
head the list
herpeses
Holzknecht's scale
honourary chairman
imbroglii
inculcating
index correlation
interlandi
iPhone SDK
Japanese spindle
jetplanes
lel
lepery
maximum transfer
Maxine taffeta
minimum temperature prediction
monovalent sera
morbus ecdemicus
mutational delay
non-recurring item
nonfatal trauma
not be born yesterday
oculudato
oil-ring retainer
Patricios
perforatorium
Periclor
philipstadite
position-sensitive
quasi logical
resalue
rosined soap
S-code
San Vicente, C.
sanitary wares
say hi to
short-run trend
similar permutation
spizofurone
steam ejector gas-freeing system
steam pocket in water tank of radiator
sublethal heat stress
sulfuric acid cooler
teutonomania
the Post Office
tidal pressure ridge
times-standard
tommy bar nut
torsion indicator
transgentleman
transrectus incision
tripalmitates
tsiranana
two-time someone
tyret
Upper Triassic
vocalistic
war supplies
welding up
wreck mark
zigzag rule