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
acid-proof alloy
Aenesidemus
andaluzite (andalusite)
Anetholtrithion
asbestos roofing felt
atomic icebreaker
atomic nucleus fission
balanced merging
balancing bushing
barge-carrying ship
Bearnaise sauce
biogas generating pit
bromochlorobenzene
canal san bovo
Chervyanka
chief computer
clipart
cold curing adhesive
conotrachelus nenuphar (herbst)
cross licence
CYSA
direct-reading analyzer
disagreein'
drawee incorrect
drum washer
drumheads
electromyclogram
electrostatic focusing
emmanuelli
exact carrier null
feishsienkian formation
Fermic golden rule
fight dynamics equation
flax-dressers' disease
gengineers
girlfriend experience
greenish brown
hammami
hard core fault
harry lauders
hastate leaves
homalosternal
honeycomb tetter
hyllisia taihokensis
hypo(a)esthesia
ideologie
in rapt attention
inopportunity
interframe Hadamard method
irrational motive
java archive file
keep your nose to the grindstone
leakage scaling
left out tool
lestobiosis
Luxembourg law
M-PESA
macrocnenia
mechanical linkage
megacryometeors
metal-oxide film resistor
minimarathons
mixing grid
morosenesses
nongraphic control panel
nonleptonic decay
oceanographic satellite
optical interference measurement
pack-ice
packing cost
particle distribution of fly ash
PAS-CA
personal external exposure monitor
photon excited X-ray fluorescence analysis
pinch compression
planer gage
polleras
polyanalyser
pranked
precents
pyroglutamic acids
radioengineering
rapapport
ribbon type microphone
rockbuns
segregation requirement
separate water supply
shrewd-brained
silicate industry
Smilacina racemosa
snow blight
soil sounding device
spragues
steam engine power plant
task data
temperature buzzer
tetraamines
Triclinoerinite
turning equipment
unanswering
water pollution monitor
withdrawal receipt