时间:2019-03-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Google vs Googol


对于Google的中文名字“谷歌”,网评如潮、褒贬不一,今天不妨追根溯源,看看google名字的渊源。 普遍的说法认为:Google按照英语通常的造词法由Googol改写而来。Googol是一个数学名词,相当于10的100次方。1938年,哥伦比亚大学教授Edward Kasner(爱德华·卡斯纳)在给自己所定义的一个超大数字取名时,身旁9岁的侄儿Milton Sirotta(米尔顿·西洛塔)发表意见说:“这样大的数,非得用一个怪名Googol不可”,Googol由此问世。 您可能要问,10的100次方到底是多少呢? Googol到底有多大?打个比方吧,一个Googol比一个城市里汇集了一个世纪的雨水都要多,或者说,您可到纽约西南部著名的“吃热狗”胜地Coney Island(康尼岛)海岸上,数一数那儿的沙粒,沙粒有多少,一个Googol就有多大。 显然,Google公司的命名表达了他们穷极信息世界资讯的大志,当然,Google公司目前收录的所有网页远不到一个Googol。现在,在日常生活中,google甚至可用做一个动词,指“在网上搜索”,如:I googled you and found out you were lying to me about your Ph.D. And you have a prison record!(我在网上查了你的信息,发现你所谓的博士学历全是一派谎言。而且,你还有坐牢记录!)

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adequate representation
against the letter of credit
All is well that ends well
alter idem
american association college teaching
aplotaxis anriculata
appendix ureteroplasty
bacatas
Baisoara
bayonet basereceptacle
Bo'ness
building typology
buried depth of basement
burland
catalytic oxidizer
central microtubule
chlorethamin
close to
converter analog element
coordination cost
cumulonimbus arcus
cycle matrix
dila-in connection
disertitude
double speed CD-ROM
double strap
drip loss
electron crystallography
ergosterols
Eubine
feed copper loss
feel lonely
fine crystalline granite
finger-like absorber
flight unit
fuel storage pool bridge
Garou, L.
go to the better world
grubering
halick
heavy-duty lifting machine
honeycomb coral
Hāgere Selam
improved land
instrument of pledge
interureteric fold
isolation control
It is never too late to mend.
K-spectrum
Kuo-min
laceleaves
lower one's colours
mantionell
Maxwellian character
multi lingual
normal incidence reactivity
Northeast Providence Chan.
offer by description
Omo Ranch
oreasteroside
overweigh
parampnochlorphenol
peak-cathode current
perforation temperature
phosphohexoses
photoacoustically
physiology of seed
pked
plane transformation
power saving fluorescent lamps
principle axis
Promantine
proper mature
purple gallinules
Rameses II
reactive droop
recovery of performance
research effort
ringing dynamo
schechter
solenoid plunger
spider ferns
stabilizers
streetproof
strike one's stride
sub-minimum
take a hair of the dog that bit you
teasel cloth
textmode
the worried well
Thymus serpylium L.
time-to-digit conversion
torsional flexibility
transparency body
triplet splitting
unnaturalness
viewiness
warwolves
water migration
westmoor
white layer
whole cut off