【一起听英语】过去十年间的变化
十年来，人们的衣食住行发生着哪些变化，其中，哪些变化是最大的呢？
Kate Hello and welcome to this week’s 6 Minute English. Well this is one of our
last episodes 1 of the year, indeed of the decade 2. So in today’s programme we’re
going to be talking about how various things have changed over the last 10
years – the noughties. (This is the expression some people use to describe the
years 2000 to 2009 because the numbers include a ‘nought’ or zero). So
Rebecca , what has changed for you since the year 2000.
Rebecca answers
Kate Well one thing which has changed everybody’s lives dramatically 3 throughout 4
the world in the last ten years is the Internet.Can you cast 5 your mind back to
the year 1999 and try to remember how you used the internet back then?
Rebecca answers
Kate Yes, I remember having a strong sense of the Web 6’s possibilities but I never
imagined what a huge part it would play in my everyday life - working with it,
using it at home, for keeping in touch with friends email, listening to radio,
music and booking holidays etc.
Rebecca answers
Kate Well, the Web has changed all our lives in so many ways and today we’re
going to focus 7 on one aspect of it – social networking. Are you a social
networker?
Rebecca answers
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Kate gives some more examples. Here's my question for this week. How many users 8
does Facebook have?
a) 100 million users
b) 200 million users
c) 300 million users
Rebecca answers
Kate Good answer. I’ll let you know if you were right at the end of the programme.
Can you guess how Facebook might have started?
Rebecca I think it was something to do with Harvard university in Amercia – is that
right?
Kate Yes! Originally 9 a ‘facebook’ was the name given to a document given
American students when they first arrived at university designed to put them in
touch with other students with whom they might be friends. Then a young
student call Mark Zukerman decided 10 to put it on the web rather than using
paper.
We're going to hear from Chris Cox, the vice 11 president of ‘Facebook’. Before
we listen can you explain what upload means 12?
Rebecca Well upload means to put something on the web. You can upload pictures,
music, videos. The opposite of course is to ‘download’ which means you take
materials from the web and put them on to your own computer or Ipod.
Kate Thanks – well let’s listen. Can you tell me what Facebook was like in its early
days?
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Mark built a service that allowed you to upload your picture and your name and where you
came from, your birthday, very basic things and the service had a feature that said you could
add somebody as a friend.
Rebecca He said that Mark built a service which allowed you to upload your
picture, name, your birthday and basic things. More or less what we see on the
site today but just more basic.
Kate And then what happened? Chris Cox again.
Extract 2
Within a matter of month or so I think pretty much everybody at Harvard was on Facebook
and we slowly launched 15 it at one university after another and then suddenly Mark’s inbox
was full of other universities saying could you launch 14 this here. And there was a very
common story which was within weeks of the launch of Facebook.com at a school it would
become….90 % of the student body would join.
Rebecca So it seemed become successful very quickly. He said that within a month
everybody was on Facebook and soon afterwards all the other universities were
asking for it. He used the words inbox – this is of course his email inbox where
he receives emails.
Kate Thanks so there we have just one example of how our everyday lives have
been changed by the internet and social networking in the last ten years. We
are now able to stay in touch with friends in a way which was unimaginable
ten years ago. Now the answer to the question I asked you.
Rebecca I think I said…
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Kate And you were correct. Let's have a quick re-cap of the vocabulary we've come
across today. First of all we had noughties, upload, download, inbox and
launch.
Rebecca: Goodbye!
- The novel deals with the romantic episodes of her early life. 小说叙述了她早期生活的浪漫插曲。
- Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. 把叁集的内容压缩成了一个节目。
- Prices have risen steadily during the past decade.过去的十年间，物价一直在上涨。
- The century has rounded into its ninth decade.本世纪已进入了90年代。
- His quality of life has improved dramatically since the operation. 手术后他的生活质量大大改善了。
- Our way of life has changed dramatically over the last ten years. 在过去10年里我们的生活方式发生了巨大的变化。
- These magazines are sold at bookstores throughout the country.这些杂志在全国各地书店均有发售。
- Guilin is known throughout the world for its scenery.桂林以山水著称于世。
- You can cast your vote at the local polling station.你可以在当地的投票站投票。
- He cast off fear and decided to make a try.他去掉害怕心理，决定试一试。
- The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
- You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网？
- She was the focus of everyone's attention.她是大家注意的焦点。
- The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.噪音让我无法集中注意力工作。
- The new software will prove a boon to Internet users. 这种新软件将会对互联网用户大有益处。
- Ramps should be provided for wheelchair users. 应该给轮椅使用者提供坡道。
- Originally I didn't want to go.我本意不想去。
- After much discussion they settled on the plan originally proposed.他们讨论了很久，然后确定了原来提出的那个计划。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
- We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
- The article was a choice extract from her writings.这篇文章是从她的著作中摘录出来的精粹。
- We can extract oil from olive.我们可以从橄榄中榨油。