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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。