英语四级晨读100篇精华版035:Privacy个人隐私
35. Privacy个人隐私
Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the Websites youve visited. Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.
有一天一个陌生人在未经你允许的情况下私自阅读你的电子邮件或者浏览你浏览过的稠页:或者不经意间瞥一眼你的信用卡消费情况或者手机账单,以此来了解你的购物爱好或者是打电话的习惯。
In fact, its likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a spouse, a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked.
事实是这种情况很可能已经发生在你的身上。未经你的允许谁可能会关注你呢?很可能是你的配偶、女朋友、生意上的同伴、老板、警察或者犯罪分子。不管是谁,他们都会以一种你从来都不希望被看见的方式看见你-21世纪就相当于裸体的你被抓个正着。
Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that its important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.
心理学家告诉我们保持适度的空间有益于健康,同时适时地向朋友、家人以及爱人倾诉很重要。但是现在没有空间可以保髓,因为你鳕在任何一处的数字碎屑都为陌生人提供了可乘之机,他们通过这些碎屑重新组合,轻易地重构出你是谁、在哪里、喜欢什么。有时候一个简单的咎歌搜索就泄露了你在想什么。不管你喜欢与否,我们生活的这个世界是越来越难保守秘密了。
The key question is: Does that matter?
主要问题是:这很重要吗?
For many Americans, the answer apparently is no.
对大多数美国人而言,答案显而易见不重要。
When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey found an overwhelming pessimism about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is slipping away, and that bothers me.
但是当民意调查问及美国人的个人隐私观时,大多数人说他们对于失去个人隐私很关心。一项调查显示绝大多数美国人对个人隐私持悲观态度,600/,的被访者说他们觉得他们的隐私正在离他们而去,这一点让他们很烦恼。
But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny fraction of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50- cents- off coupon .
但人们总是心口不一。只有极少数美国人会改变个人行为努力保护自己的个人隐私。为了避免使用跟踪汽车驾驶情况的公路卡系统,很少有人拒绝收费站的打折优惠;很少有人拒绝超市的忠诚卡。个人隐私经济学家本韦努托。斯特拉涅罗进行了一系列的测试,结果显示人们为了那可怜的50美分优惠券而将个人信息,诸如社会保险卡号泄露出去。
But privacy does matter at least sometimes. Its like health: When you have it, you dont notice it. Only when its gone do you wish youd done more to protect it.
但是个人隐私真的很重要至少有时候。它就像人的健康状况:当你拥有它的时候,饰根本就注意不到:只有当你失去它的时候,你才后悔没有傲更多的事情保护它。
CET4四级词汇:
scan 扫描
wehsite 网址:网站
creclit card 信用卡
cell phone 手机
equivalent相等的;相当的n.对等物
naked 裸露的
crumb 碎屑
privacy 私事;隐私
tollhooth 过路收费亭
coupon 优惠券
CET4阅读单词短语考点:
Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.
或者不经意间瞥一眼你的信用卡消费情况或者手机账单,以此来了解你的购物爱好或者是打电话的习惯。
find out:发现
They did a lot of research Work to find out why it had happened.
他们做了大最研究来寻找其会发生的原因。
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