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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-vastatin
abrasion resistance assessment by jet test
absolute instability
airfields assignments
Akarnania
Akbauyr
AMBW
ankylocheilia
antipoem
Barugo
be replaced by
bead slicer
bear up under burricane winds
beats a dead horse
biased partitioning
Biocal
broadcast signaling virtual channel identifier
bucket piston
burst-slug detector
ceiboes
champagne rooms
checksummer
circular bin
collective thievery
common rhythm
control switch group
correlated subquery
de-bugging period
deductible expenditure personal
design change verification
differential forces
differentials of higher order
distributed parameter model
dog-stopper
double error correction
duration of employment
epoptic
Erysimum sisymbrioides
evaporator boiler
exposure field
faliure of strength
fire beater
Fissistigma wallichii
flavor grou
fossae supraspinata
gas oil steam cracking
graphis scripta(l.)ach.
guddle
high caloric value
incorrect access probability
influent hopper
intercluster variation
Juncus amplifolius
K.C.
Katzenstein's tests
leatherback turtles
loculated empyema
manned reconnaissance satellite
mastonia ustulata
maxwell-boltzmann's law
merinoes
mezuzot
millenniarism
missounded
motherboard hybrids
mutual electrodynamic force
ore bucket
over-tax
oxygen-15
panel girder
particle fall
picking disk
Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
polyoma
Pommerby
popcorn shrimp
portable executable
rainbow pattern
renal disease in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
rock unit
scoliote
segmentation overlay
six-element lens
snake plant
spulyiation
standard block
starzel
stepboard
sum register
swole-hot
TH-1314
the Iron Age
the trots
triaugmented
true zero point
Two Kettle
ultrasonic testing method
Umm Rujūm
unlawful pawning
unless otherwise specified (UOS)
wire and cable marker
zitherns