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
abortive disease
acclimatize to
account distribution memorandum
Alekano
all wood
argon glow lanp
Assets Liabilities Ratio
audit budget
ausra
baked carbon
Bamberg
body proportion
branchial organ
capillary depression
cardioprotectors
cargo stowage declaration
caryo-
Castanea sativa
cerumens
charge particle
cheer sb on
chu tzu
cibicidids
Corydalis krasnovii
crawler hydraulic drill
Dapril
dermomycosis
desmopelmous
Dimitri's disease
double hedging
double-rigging luff
elvis-style
erection well
facet planes
familistically
family Phallaceae
fashionmongern
fine-textured soil
finger-ends
flamework
flumequine
forceps deliveries
forereef
Fortal
fourperson
gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
give somebody away
hard nuts to crack
harvest mites
heart failures
hinge-line fault
hsiang ho ta ch'?
inferior ventricular vein
instrumented tracking and telemetry ship
intake value
intermedia interchange format
Iris tingitana
jessyca
label printing machine
ladder for repairing
macro lenses
magnitude chart
Manihiki Atoll
microprocessor system interface module
morolimumab
mountain ebonies
multimodal transport document
multipactor breakdown
myelolymphangioma
nitwitted
off gas vent pipe
operational flight software (ofs)
over-depreciation
oxyacetylene torches
Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn
piano
pole pin
robot design
rolling deep
root neck
rubber-in-shear mounting
sector servo
selectives
self-locking screw
self-synchronous receiver
shear pattern
shrunken raster
Siemens-Halske system
space-bandwidth product
space-standard method
take a chances
Thanya Buri
theory of discrete mathematics
transaction register
Trecastle
two lane canal
unconditional stability criterion
urciuoli
utilization period
vesicopubic
Warora
Youyi Feng