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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abrasive band
action of controller
all-bright
aluminium ethide
ambiguous case
Anaset
bottlehead
canning burst
cat tree
Cerbolite
chainwale
chloralacetoxime
Cinchona officinalis
collect one's faculty
compaignion
contection
cotton braid
cowpooling
debituminize
disultone
DPICM
Dubky
duty-paids
eccentric type vibrator
environment control in biology
evasion chart
expansion fog
explicit faith,explicit belief
family peridiniidaes
ferl
fifty cents
file layout
fink on sb
fire banked
fixed ratio (fr) schedule
flying height
garp atlantic tropical experiment (wmo/icsu) (gate)
Genseric
geopartners
Glinus
gloom-and-doomer
Godhafoss
Gorno-Chuyskiy
hailwoods
high pressure piston
Hope, R.
hostitutes
i will wait for you
infective pleurisy
intramammary pressure
iodanil
islands
kante
Larzel's anemia
legitime
leycesterias
liberal interpretation
literaryisms
Mayer sign
micronized clay
murp
musculi pterygoideus
myological
natural frequency
negativas
non-shattering glass
not give a two pins
oghma
oil-depth gauge
over-played
paler
phosacetim
picciarelli
playing-cards
postwomen
Pound, Louise
productive task
pseudacousma
purely infinite
rear parking stop and direction indicator lamps
regional sea level change
resident editor
Safe High Voltage connector
San Isidro, R.
scatologia
single thread sizing
skiable
slot tear
sphenofrontal suture
splitter switch
spot weld adhesive
sticky prices
storage adapter
straight smile
string-oriented instruction
substitutions of amino acids
swormstedt
takao
tally trade
undersea tunnel
unfledged
work of deformation