这些年关于互联网的问题人们有过很多的讨论。而互联网的发明者Berners-Lee列出了这样一些问题:
1)Conspiracy theories trend on social media platforms
Conspiracy:阴谋
社交媒体平台上阴谋论的盛行
2) Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts stoke social tensions
Stoke: 引发,激起,煽动
假的推特和脸书账号引发社会紧张局势
3)External actors interfere in elections
Interfere 干扰
外部人士干扰选举
4)Criminals steal personal data
犯罪分子盗窃个人数据
今天的句子:
These problems have proliferated because of the concentration of power in the hands of a few platforms – including Facebook, Google, and Twitter – which “control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared”.
词汇突破:
1.proliferate 扩散,猛增,加剧
2. concentration 集中
主干识别:
These problems have proliferated
其他成分:
1.状语:because of the concentration of power in the hands of a few platforms
2. 定语解释platforms :including Facebook, Google, and Twitter
(也可以认为是同位语,所以定语和同位语在语义上没有差别。)
3. which “control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared”
第一个which= platforms 第二个which 就是which的最初含义:哪些
参考译文:这些问题已经加剧和扩散了,因为权力集中到了少数几个平台手中–包括脸书、谷歌和推特–这些平台“控制着哪些想法和观点被看到和分享”。
大家要记住:西方的逻辑就是对于垄断(monopoly)感到恐惧,无论是资金,资源,技术,权力还是信息。