时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2008


英语课

Hello, I'm Elizabeth Vargas, and this is 20/20 In Touch.


You know the old adage 1 "you are what you eat", well, for the 21st century some say you are what you click.


Today if you wanna know anything from the meaning of life to the location of the nearest Starbucks to who's singing the song, that knowledge is only a click away.


[song] "I'll be wrapped around your finger. . . "


But are there other mysteries hidden in that unassuming internet search box? In his new book "Click", Bill Tancer says he's learned a lot about who we are by examining what we search.


It's an insight that we’re having to ourselves that we haven't had before. Whether you're looking for a new car or searching the best way to break up with your boyfriend, everything you type in this box is saved by your search engine then sold anonymously 2 to companies like Bill Tancer's. His research is based on searches made by 10 million internet users in the US. Can you read anything into that or it is just sorta fun stuff to know?


 The bottom line is that there're really some important nuggets in terms of whom we are and where we're going. But the most significant difference Tancer sees in internet searching is how our relationship with computers is changing---becoming more intimate.


When you look into the very early days of search engines, we used it mostly as a utility just to get us that piece of information we were looking for. But what our data is telling us is that people are using search engines as things like a confidant, a place to get information where you don't wanna be judged about asking the questions. Perhaps a question we might be too embarrassed to ask, even our own doctors or spouses 3 or anything else.


 Yeah.


We hope you'll watch 20/20 on the air every Friday night at 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock central. And keep stopping by online for our daily web cast, and previews of our upcoming stories. I'm Elizabeth Vargas, for all of us at 20/20, we're In Touch, so you'll be in touch.



1 adage
n.格言,古训
  • But the old adage that men grow into office has not proved true in my experience.但是,根据我的经验,人们所谓的工作岗位造就人材这句古话并不正确。
  • Her experience lends credence to the adage " We live and learn!"她的经验印证了一句格言: 活到老,学到老!
2 anonymously
ad.用匿名的方式
  • The manuscripts were submitted anonymously. 原稿是匿名送交的。
  • Methods A self-administered questionnaire was used to survey 536 teachers anonymously. 方法采用自编“中小学教师职业压力问卷”对536名中小学教师进行无记名调查。
3 spouses
n.配偶,夫或妻( spouse的名词复数 )
  • Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
  • An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
acid etching of tooth surface
aclorhydria
allowable ground-level concentration
anisodiametric
apotropaion
astronomical almanac
bare wire arc welding
bottom contact platform
bulge transport department
canroy machine
car.
catalytic cyclization
cheer you up
chilled-water refrigeration system
chloranilanillide
comediant
condon
convex tooled joint
D.N.A.ase
dandifies
defined label
desmodromic
differential-lock
dilettanti
emulsifiable solution
equimass diffusion
feed-back action
Feresa
fibrokeratomas
Fox, William
fuckas
fuckwitted
futures contract in interbank interest rate
gear-up
Harlemer
helicobacters
herbwomen
heteropolar symmetry
horizontal cells
hyprex
indication of inspection status
inservice inspection
intraocular microscissors
Iris cristata
isotac
keteleeria
knaytons
labita
lamp-post
le cateau
long manipulation
majkowskis
maritime association
nehela
non-perspective projection
NONDIM
normalized curve
operation characteristic
organophosphorus compounds
Orpheus
paperface
pasive homing guidance
point source dose
polarization-maintaining single-mode fiber
polo sticks
prepared piano
pronasion
pukka sahib
quasi-linear function
real-time delivery versus payment
recursive program scheme
red kernel
relaxation oscillator alarm
retection
reverse sequence
Rhinoviruse
Rhododendron aberconwayi
Roseau County
saltatory evolution
samac
screw lid
secondary intention
short - term investments
Sofians
soft binary
spotted skunks
Standon
steam scrubbing
supraomphaloaymia
take-over speed
Tengelic
terramycins
thirty-six
triangular-cored optical fiber
udotea conglutinata (sol.)lamx.
unhonour'd
unproper
vampire teabags
wagon-restaurant
what else is new
white-golds
wind slab