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 running commentary
acalypha formosana hay.
acid-proof brick
approach to library filing by computer
argininemia
bioburden
blastx
bleeder piping
brake caliper
civil censorships
ClB technique
clotheth
concurrency
configured-out
coughy
crank-arm
curdy
cutwidth
Cystobacterineae
Dampness may be removed by drugs dry in property
definition of situation
deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate
digital broadcast
displacement marks
dissipate sb's interest in sth
dog-fisher
dogass
double option
drunk as a a fish
dynamic scheduling
dyotropic
e.m.u. (electromagnetic unit)
early vegetable
edge distortion
embiematize
ensearching
entirety morphology
exfoliaton
Faro do Alentejo
favourable balance of foreign exchange and outlays
Galeola altissima
gas suspension fuel
gas-filled tube arrester
gentisic acid
hucky
in-line oscillation
indefinite operator
inquire by telephone
INTEREST, INTERESTED
invertible canon
jack plub
Killarney, L.of
Koprivshtitsa
Kouminicine
kukwald
larkam
lateral palpebral commissure
leakage permeance
longitudinal sleeper
maximum critical value
megafinance
multimolecular layer
navy bases
on-bike
outo
owl train
oxihemograp
pars mediastinalis pleurae
Pedro de Freitas
PFFA
Plaut's angina
post tonsillectomic
pursuit-type aircraft
qualifier
quotemarks
radial artery of index
Randwijk
Rangli
rolled about
Samantha
sandblasted
Santa Venetia
schnoogins
slaunwhite
spectrum
street fighting
sub-harmonic
subnetwork
sunblushes
take sb. at his words
tape timer
Tarcǎului, Mti.
tidal theory
tinnie
touring
turbine losses
ultramicrospec-trophotometer
unlisible
unsends
usage rights
visual exposure meter
warrant money