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
administrative behavior
al-yawer
anal fan
Anemone laceratoincisa
asymeter
automatic sequence-controlled
barrel temperature
bespouting
beta-acetylpropionic acid
Bodvaszilas
buckle on one's armour
candy-coat
capacitor start motor
cement family coating material
cementings
chancey
command headline
conjugate imaginary plane
cumulative net drawing
cylinder-head cover
Dalian chih
data cell unit
de-enamelling
deep-out-of-the-money option
degolding
Dioctophymatoidea
Dionne quintuplets
drapes
driners' thigh
filler type wire rope
flat fixed calandria
floretry
fluoroborate plating
gaiser
Galaxy S IV
handholding
Hnjótur
Insurance of Container Compre hensive Loss
intermelled
intestinal lymphatic trunks
intestinal obstruction due to ascariasis
intraop
Jamaica pepper oil
kindom
Lance Creek
latching on
low lactose milk
luminous edge
Machnozzle
Marangoni number
merfamilies
microhyla heymonsi
millimicromicroammeter
Mlicrococcus pyogenes
MMP-13
modulus operator
multi-phase
nascent hydrocarbon
nickel-cadmium battery
offence against the socialist economic order
Oostham
open ended contract
order Pandanales
PHBT
phialing
piggings
plagioclase gneiss
Polonisations
quick scope
Retroactive Recognization
rhaetulus crenatus crenatus
ronnebies
samlaw
scintillation screen
screw rail bender
sharkship
shoggoth
sincerer
smelt dissolver
soak-mill
spirit of formic acid
spontaneous termination
storage compartment for strongly active components
sulfo-phenyl-isothocyanate
sweet cherry
teill
the man of the moment
timing reference signal
townling
tyerman
unit of system operation
unquestioningly
UTR
vacuum rectifier
vena stylomastoideas
voltmeter type ground detector
water critical point
wing man
worm-eat
xanthomycin
zero-based