创业成功人士访谈录 第6期:谷歌CTO谢尔盖布林(6)

 　　You’ve had a variety of new things come up over the past year.

　　去年你们作了很多新的开发。

　　What do you like the most?

　　您最喜欢的是什么？

　　I’m really excited about our self-serve AdSense.

　　自助广告业务的开通真的让我很兴奋。

　　I think this is changing webmasters’lives.

　　我想这正在改变网络管理人员的生活。

　　They can make money on something that was a hobby, and they don’t have to do weird¹ search deals.

　　他们可以用自己的爱好赚钱，并且不需要做各种奇怪的搜索生意。

　　I’m hoping that it can help spur the next generation of content development on the Web.

　　我希望这可以激励下一代网站内容的开发。

　　创业成功人士英语访谈 谷歌技术总裁谢尔盖.布林

　　You can’t do a good job of search unless what you’re looking for is out there.

　　除非你想要找的东西是公开的，否则你无法把搜索工作做得很出色。

　　Is Google a technology company or a media company?

　　谷歌是一个技术公司还是传媒公司？

　　Google has an important technology component².

　　谷歌有一个很重要的技术组成部分。

　　But we also care about the utility of the technology and for our advertising³ network and publishers.

　　但我们同样关心技术的应用，以及广告网络和出版商。

　　So, I think we’re a technology company that applies technology to media.

　　因此，我认为谷歌是一个致力于将技术应用于传媒的技术公司。

　　Are there any circumstances in which Google might buy Microsoft? Or, the opposite?

　　谷歌是否有可能会收购微软？或者被微软收购？

　　I think there are a lot of liabilities in acquiring Microsoft.

　　我认为要收购微软我们会欠下很多债务。

　　Over time, there have been a number of companies that have approached us.

　　长期以来，已经有很多公司与我们进行洽谈。

　　We’ve always said ‘no’thus far.

　　至今我们一直都在拒绝。

　　We think our company has a lot of promise.

　　我们认为谷歌很有前途。

　　We’re pleased with the trajectory⁴ that we’re on and so it’s not a very likely thing to happen in my mind.

　　我们对现在运行的轨道很满意，所以，在我看来，这是不太可能发生的事。

　　But it would be silly to discount a serious approach from anyone.

　　但是，对一次严肃认真的洽谈不作考虑，是很愚蠢的行为。

　　What do you do to go beyond links as a way of improving results?

　　你们如何超载链接以完善搜索结果？

　　There are completely new ranking technologies that we are working on.

　　我们现在正在开发全新的排名技术。

　　We try about a half-dozen a month and launch on a limited test basis.

　　我们一个月作6次尝试并在一个受限制的测试平台上发布。

　　We fundamentally work with all of the world’s knowledge.

　　我们的工作基本上涉及到世界上所有的知识。

　　There are just different ways to approach that.

　　有很多不同的方式对它们进行了解。

　　There are many, many things you can do, and we’re not going to exhaust them any time soon.

　　你可以做的事情有很多很多，我们不会很快将他们做完。

　　Over time, our searches will only get better.

　　随着时间的推移，我们的搜索只会越来越好。

　　Will you ever consider supporting paid inclusion?

　　你们会考虑接受赞助商付费排名吗？

　　You want to keep any kind of payment separate from organic search results.

　　要把任何付费赞助与原始搜索结果分开。

　　I think it’s important to distinguish those things.

　　我认为这些东西一定要区分开来，这很重要。

　　What do you think remains⁵ largely unknown about Google?

　　你觉得谷歌在哪些方面仍需要提高知名度？

　　The tilde operator.

　　模糊检索。

　　A new search command that enables users to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms⁶.

　　我们有一个新的搜索命令，让用户不仅可以对关键词进行搜索，而且也支持近义词检索。

　　This is accomplished⁷ by placing a character directly in front of the keyword in the search box.

　　用户只需在搜索栏中输入的关键词前边加上一个波浪线符号就可实现。

　　The calculator, which enables users to solve mathematic problems by entering numeric expressions into the google.com or the Google Toolbar search boxes.

　　还有计算器，用户可以在谷歌主页或谷歌搜索栏中输入数学表达式，系统就会解决数学问题。

　　Could you briefly⁸ tell us something about yourself and how you came to work at Google?

　　能不能简要地给大家介绍一下您自己以及怎么到谷歌来工作的？

　　I was born in Moscow and came to the United States at the age of six.

　　我出生在莫斯科，6岁的时候来到了美国。

　　I grew up in Maryland, then went to the computer science program at Stanford.

　　我在马里兰长大，后来，从1993年开始我攻读斯坦福大学的计算机科学专业。

　　I started there in 1993，where I worked on data mining,

　　我在那儿做数据开发，基本上是对大量的数据进行分析，

　　which basically involves analyzing⁹ vast amounts of data to find interesting correlations¹⁰ and patterns.

　　并从中找到有趣的相互关系和形式。

　　Then Larry joined in 1995,

　　1995年拉里加入，和我一起工作。

　　He started downloading the Web and we analyzed¹¹ its link structure.

　　他开始下载网页，我们一起对链接结构进行分析。

　　We’ve worked together from then on.

　　从那时起我们就在一起共事了。

1 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

2 component   

n.组成部分，成分，元件；adj.组成的，合成的

参考例句：

• Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
• Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。

3 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

4 trajectory   

n.弹道，轨道

参考例句：

• It is not difficult to sketch the subsequent trajectory.很容易描绘出它们最终的轨迹。
• The path followed by a projectile is called its trajectory.抛物体所循的路径称为它的轨道。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

6 synonyms   

同义词( synonym的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• If you want to grasp English, you must carefully discriminate synonyms. 如果你想掌握好英语，你必须仔细区分同义词。
• Study the idioms and synonyms l wrote down before your test. 学考试前我给你写的习惯用语和同义字。

7 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

8 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

9 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

10 correlations   

相互的关系( correlation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One would expect strong and positive correlations between both complexes. 人们往往以为这两个综合体之间有紧密的正相关。
• The correlations are of unequal value. 这些对应联系的价值并不相同。

11 analyzed   

v.分析( analyze的过去式和过去分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析

参考例句：

• The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed. 这年轻人没有分析自己蛊惑著迷的过程，因为对他来说，爱是个不可分析的迷。 来自《简明英汉词典》