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 chemical element
adjected
applicant tracking system
automatic clutch
bibliobibuli
biprism
boyte
Caesio
capital gain or loss
career men
caspersen
cell dimension
center propeller
chlorine alkali industry
CIF Landed
Clematis ranunculoides
conjugate rays
conjunctive moods
connus
copper-wire
cornpensated grade
countermeasure precursor
Courtauld
cruise attitude
culleis
cybergenetics
dotted pair
duodenal smears
earlier on
electronuclear device
ensifer
epithelializing
ethnic culture
foutch
funnel-shaped aerial
gossup
gravity settling tank
grocery-shopping
hardware integration
hardware source
hogshit
hot-desker
inaugured
ink-stained
inside and outside
interest coverage
kick up a big stink
kremeniuk
linear selection memory
locatio et conductio
Lord forfend
lost our grip
macromicroelectrode
maximum horizontal displacement of contact wire
meningovascular
meteoroids
minchen
mustums
naso-lacrimal
native goods
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
nnamdi
one -letter index
oscillating sifter
overawes
partial agreement
pass sth in view
piezo-electric pressure gauge
positional axes
Poverty Bay
previous service date
proteomes
put something up
radio directional bearing
re-positionings
relative resolution product
rhinoplasty with excision of bone
royal jelly natural pollen
sail close on a wind
San José de Mayo
satsuma insignis
secondary reward
segregation ratio distortion
Semeru, Gunung
semiempirical model
shell holding capacity
shipping clamp
silver-birches
specific energy of position
static modulus of soil
Storstrφmmen
strategic planning chart
subatomically
to be more precise
topsyturvily
triviality
tropologically
Tryškiai
Unggi-dong
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