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
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analytical syntax
appended procedure
argoed
atrichopogon pruinosus
bag men
ballahs
bash sb up
befall
BIL(basic impulse insulation level)
Biscaya
butter-bowzy
clamped amplifier
coded instruction
Corylopsis veitchiana
cpls
credit exemption
cross one's palm
crucial use of variable
deines
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die making
dimethylphenosafranine
doodies
dummy riser
duplex bag
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elasmobranchian
endogenous hormone
energy energy release
etopic testis
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flood control storage
free-minded
Front panel connector
genus Symphoricarpos
green index number
green ormer
gunn (diode) source
hasty expedient road
Hupyong
hydraulic jetting
hydrogen blower
hypsochromic
input data selection
ivoriness
joysticking
kinetic art
L-Hydroxyproline
landing simulation
legitimacy status of children
linearity control circuit
macrodome
mamola
manure conveyor
MAOT
Marizile
medialised
microdiffusion analyser
monoxygenase
multiarray
Narathiwat, Changwat
neoprene glove
night sky radiation
off-minded
one-hand
pachometry
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perflate
pipers
pissing around
plexus rectalis cranialis
polarization battery
polycyclic relief
Prefox
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pslra
qat
queer-bashing
respiratory arrest
reticular layer of skin
right of offset
rilozarone
Rφksund
Saxifraga yunlingensis
scartella emarginata
sebcs
slow storage
Sobralite
sturnella magnas
swear sb to silence
tetragon-trisoctahedron
threw her weight around
trip setting
turns loose
Tycho Brahe
variable free expression
waziristans
wine-maker's yeast
yield stresses
zero-type dynamometer