TED演讲：单词的诞生(8)

 　　We've started analyzing¹ television content using the same principles -- 我们开始分析电视内容，用同样的原则--

　　analyzing event structure of a TV signal -- 分析一个电视信号的事件结构--

　　episodes of shows, commercials, all of the components² that make up the event structure. 电视剧集，广告，所有的组成事件结构的成分

　　And we're now, with satellite dishes, pulling and analyzing a good part of all the TV being watched in the United States. 我们现在通过卫星电视，抽出分析了在美国高收视率的电视节目

　　And you don't have to now go and instrument living rooms with microphones to get people's conversations, 你不再需要把麦克风装在起居室里来记录人们的对话

　　you just tune³ into publicly available social media feeds. 你只要去听公开的社交媒体讯息就可以了

　　So we're pulling in about three billion comments a month, and then the magic happens. 我们每个月抽出大概30亿个评论，奇迹发生了

　　You have the event structure, the common ground that the words are about, coming out of the television feeds; 这中间可以找到事件结构，这些词汇的共同基础，那些从这次电视讯息里透露出的反馈

　　you've got the conversations that are about those topics; and through semantic analysis 你得到有关这些话题的对话，通过语意分析

　　and this is actually real data you're looking at from our data processing 你们看到的这个是根据我们的数据处理过后的真实的数据结果

　　each yellow line is showing a link being made between a comment in the wild and a piece of event structure coming out of the television signal. 每条黄线显示一个链接，连接着外界的评论和电视信号发出的事件结构间的关系

　　And the same idea now can be built up. 这都是用同样的思路构建起来的

　　And we get this wordscape, except now words are not assembled in my living room. 我们得到了这个词汇背景，不过现在词汇不是从我的客厅里来的。

　　Instead, the context, the common ground activities, are the content on television that's driving the conversations. 取而代之的情境，共同基础活动，是电视内容带动的对话

　　And what we're seeing here, these skyscrapers⁴ now, are commentary that are linked to content on television. 我们现在看到的这些高耸的结构都是电视评论，它们跟电视上播放的内容联系着

　　Same concept, but looking at communication dynamics⁵ in a very different sphere. 同样的概念，但是你们看见的是它在不同的领域展现的交流动态。

1 analyzing   

v.分析；分析( analyze的现在分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析n.分析

参考例句：

• Analyzing the date of some socialist countries presents even greater problem s. 分析某些社会主义国家的统计数据，暴露出的问题甚至更大。 来自辞典例句
• He undoubtedly was not far off the mark in analyzing its predictions. 当然，他对其预测所作的分析倒也八九不离十。 来自辞典例句

2 components   

（机器、设备等的）构成要素，零件，成分； 成分( component的名词复数 )； [物理化学]组分； [数学]分量； （混合物的）组成部分

参考例句：

• the components of a machine 机器部件
• Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。

3 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

4 skyscrapers   

n.摩天大楼

参考例句：

• A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
• On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。

5 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。