时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语科技新闻


英语课
Over one billion people used Facebook last Monday. This is the first time the site has had this many visitors in one day. The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said it was an important achievement for his company. He posted on his own Facebook profile 1 that: "We just passed an important milestone 2. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day." He said that on Monday, "one in seven people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family". He added 3 that: "This was the first time we reached this milestone, and it's just the beginning of connecting the whole world." Mr Zuckerberg also said a connected world, "brings stronger relationships with those you love".
 
Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, while he was a student at Harvard University. The website quickly became one of the biggest sites in the world. Today, it has nearly 1.5 billion users 4 and Zuckerberg thinks that number will grow. In October 2012, he announced that Facebook had one billion users who used the site at least once a month. Three years later, the site had one billion visitors in just one day. Zuckerberg said the company needs to grow a lot in countries where Facebook isn't so popular, such as in many African and Asian countries and some in Central and South America. Facebook has made Zuckerberg the ninth richest person in the world, at the age of 31.
 
 

1 profile
n.侧面,轮廓,人物素描;概要,人物简介;v.描绘...轮廓,评论人物
  • I turned my head and saw the profile of a man.我转过头,看见一个人的侧影。
  • He drew her profile.他给她画侧面像。
2 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
3 added
adj.更多的,附加的,额外的
  • They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
  • The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。
4 users
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。
学英语单词
absolute auction
accessable
Afr-
ampullae of vas deferens
atrichornithidaes
automatic bridge
automobile head lamp
beeman
belt weigher
benzophenone-anil
blossomish
bowdon
bryon
Buchan.
budgetary accounting
cat's-meat
cattle guard
cement flashing
cold cellar
confyne
constant-pressure delivery valve
cordova
corrosive compound
data base description entry
decompression valve
deformation of surface
digit significant
earth dam settlement
EFAD
elastic structure
energy-moisture curve
equilibrium air distillation
equivalent systems of equations
experimental material
externally pressurized spherical bearing
ferry rope block
fibrolites
fixed dye
General Administration of Aviation
Gnostic Gospels
greedhead
high resolution deep-level transient spectrometer
high-school extension
hottest
indisputable facts
individual death
inter-company sale
kinzu
lattice-effect coefficient
lipopsyche
littorals
m. pronator teres
machinized accounting
mass-movements
maximum available output of power system
mellowish
mispersuasion
neoliquiritin
nonesuch clover
obliterans pericarditis
observatoire
Odealkylation
of frost
offering requirement
Oldenswort
open-circuit winding
paraphillias
perilaryngeal
plate and frame type filter press
PMSD
populi gemma
potato-bran silage
preregister
prescribed time
procrastinatrix
protryptase
quick bitumen emulsion
recycled plastic
scattering collision
SDNA
seamless steel pipe for boiler
several generations
snowscene
standard response spectrum
tablada
temper bend test
the brass ring
thiacyclopropane
towelettes
tricyclic terpane
trinity sittings
tristylous
uniform contact
up-yield
upstream wake
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
viral flacherie
width of oxidized coal zone
wonderfulness
working style
yawed body