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
a brand from the fire
active activation analysis
Albrecht Penck Glacier
area shops
asymmeter
azeglio
b-lymphocyte
bagenalstown (muine bheag )
bifurcation (of trachea)
bird dung bate
bobwhite(quail)
borosilicate
breeder's seed
cable operating machinery
chocolate mass refining
complyssen
cooling shut-down
Crepis bodinieri
Decatur I.
deuterated water
distribution of bonus
dorsal ciliated epaulette
drill stem test (dst)
East or West, home is best.
ECOC
effective function
electrostatic getter-ion pump
employee-owned businesses
energy density of sound
enimont
equalized heat distribution
estate by escheat
fantasy lives
fasanoes
fenella
GEDCOM
genitalial
glacier iceberg
go scot - free
Gomorraha
hand-vote
houlds
hydraulic lock
ice pole
ichnolites
impractically
InjectioRadioAuri(198Au)Colloidalis
INPC
isopropylphosphoramidothioic acid
Joint Meteorological Board
joline
kahweol
KopFume
ligamenta ceratocricoideum
lithogenic
logic(al) drawing
Madeira topaz
modelable
modulation doping
Myosotis alpestris
mysore thorns
myxiosis
nettlehead
non-selective absorber
odds bodikins
on the water side
osteomeatal
pargen
pavillons
pentapotassium
periosteo-edema
persistent war gas
physiological race
portable irradiation facilities
primary gill rakers
protoderms
pseudo absorption
raising of loans
reflection horizon
Republic of Mozambique
round about chair
rubidium hydrogen sulfate
ruby-crowned kinglet
safe overhead clearance
Salah
San Leonardo
sccp medthod indicator
scillidiuretin
serpent fern
simeone
stress-induced leakage current
stuffer box process
sublamella
templesman
Terman test
tetrahedral formula
tons of
twinkletoes
twinning band
unibracteata
vapo(u)r pipe
voiceful