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 matter of debate
aquiles
arithmetic builtin function
asynchronous byte oriented full duplex
basic concept test
bast ring
Begēmdir-Simen Prov.
bindman
bur cotton
carbon dioxide concentrator
Chicago Park
cite chapter and verse for
cleaning fires
clinched
coefficient of partial expansiveness
concurrent microoperation
control gage
Conventional project
curtailment of transfer
de tour village
decarli
deiminases
delayed response mode
Dentaria
depreciation reducing charge method
disconnect state
dumping gear
early in the morning
eh-ph equation
elbaite
endodigin
femoral nerve (or crural nerve)
finger-paintings
forget to
fractional ideal
Frequency Bin
getcurdir
Giraud
glacial drainage
Gladwellian
gonderiosis
hang-luggage
heat element
hound fish
hyperexpansions
hypothalamicpituitarythyroid axis
impedance bonds
interossseous groove
J.T.
Jūniyah
kneading compactor
knows the ropes
lansberg
laxativeness
Learning and Skills Council
lose the seat
Macc.
mcavinn
Merceya
minimum sludge tank capacity
mitification
more rational
Mutsuyoshi
nascita
net succession
nonconditional statement
nunivak
orifice area
oscilloscope (osc)
outlet transformer
pecten magellanicuss
permanent-memory norm
pm speaker
proprietorship of land parcels
Ranunculus muricatus
realtionships
rebanishing
redine
replenishing soimoisture reserve
saddle embolus
service contract act
shifting bed
short-circuit calculation
sichers
sorbed
stub puller
subprefectures
tamarix pentandra pall
tau
tea bag infusion paper
thermodynamics of inorganic chemistry
thyreoid articular surface
top-down stepwise refinement
turbo-electric drive
twin target
typing replaces selection
ultraheavy
uncorrelated variables
underlead
Walt Whitman Bridge
weak interactions
wvu