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
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-colous
AAB
Abricycline
access channel control
angor abdominis
anywhere else
aquamassages
autoxidises
backword
Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge
belville
black wood
Boehmeria oblongifolia
briarroot
centrifugal multi-stage pump
character armour
cirrus fibratus
clarence days
cloudtops
cluster-type variable star
coded string
command dispatching and communication system
compensating ring
complex stress function
complex(compound)sound
Corallorhiza Hall.
corpuscle
correction for run of mierometer
differential idler gear shift
dubber
Dufy
Egmond aan Zee
eligio
equal vector
equivalent minimum
Erysimum flavum
excising
fasanoes
feoffor
fermiums
field theory of learning
film stars
fireproof plywood
flight information service(fis)
geochemistry of individual elements
good neighbor
granting of credit
hawkbill snips
heterozygous condition
historical culture
hold counsel together
insularine
interval method
isoamyl phenyl ether
Isolepis
kings of the germans
laboratory research
leap against
Leif Ericson
lesbophobic
line-sequential color-television
linosity
lipochromemia
lonicera canadenses
marggraff
metaconsumption
micropower circuit design
misliked
mother-to-be
moving arm disk
mustanging
National Computer Graphics Association
neogenesis
niara
non-treated
Oskaig
pedontology
phase depending on rectification
polishing pan
presspeople
procaviid
psithyruss
qmy
radar range equation
receiving report
sacralised
sample search
sine-cosme generator
staircase effect
stool of repentance
tenue
Thermaic, Gulf
toota
undersaves
Varfolomeyevka
viscously damped absorber
VOCU
wellsite geologist
white elephants
whoopsies
wire line stem