创业成功人士访谈录 第45期:我们建立了世界上最透明和公开的系统(5)

 　　There would be a lot more information, and a lot more transparency.

　　世界将有更大的信息量，而且也越来越透明化。

　　That was really interesting to us. At the same time we had no idea that we would build a business that would shape that in any way.

　　我们对此很感兴趣，但当时我们根本不知道这还能做成事业。

　　I was just building something that would let me and the people around me stay in touch.

　　我只是为了方便本人同好友保持联系。

　　But then it just kind of grew and grew.

　　随后它的规模越来越大。

　　The cool irony¹ is that now we are able to have an impact on some of those lofty things we used to discuss in our college dorm room.

　　而最出乎意料的事情是：当年我们在大学宿舍谈论过的一些崇高的事物，现在，我们已经有能力对它们造成影响了。

　　Has Facebook changed our ideas about privacy?

　　脸谱网是不是改变了我们对于隐私的观念？

　　I think social norms have evolved a bit.

　　我觉得社会准则会逐渐发生改变

　　When we were just getting started five years ago, people were not sure whether they wanted to put anything about themselves on the Internet at all.

　　5年前脸谱网刚刚推出时，当时网民还不清楚是否应把个人信息发布到网上。

　　It was more about control. People want to feel that they can put something up and can control who sees it and if they want to take it down, they can do that.

　　当时网民更关注如何控制自己的个人信息。换句话说，网民一方面愿意发布个人信息，另一方面又希望能控制让谁看到这些信息，当他们想要取消时，他们也可以做到。

　　By giving people that control, we enable them to share more stuff. The debate about privacy is really a debate about control.

　　在我们给予用户这种控制后，他们就愿意共享更多的信息。所有同隐私保护相关的讨论，其实是在谈论由谁来控制这些个人信息。

　　The system we’re building is one that strives to give people more control over their information.

　　脸谱网正在建造的系统，也是为了让用户更容易控制个人信息。

　　What will Facebook look like five years from now?

　　你觉得5年后脸谱网将会是什么样子？

　　Facebook will be less about Facebook.com and more about this underlying² system and platform that we’re building.

　　估计脸谱网届时将不再过于 强调facebook.com网站的业务，而是更专注于我们正组建的基本系统和平台。

　　What we’re trying to do is be more about letting people use their information on any site or platform they want.

　　我们希望网民能够在任何网站和平台中共享个人信息。

　　We launched Facebook Connect last year, and we now have more than 15,000 sites using it, and that’s just a start.

　　去年我们推出了脸谱网连接服务，目前使用该服务的外部网站已超过1.5万家。这还只是开始

　　Within five years we hope to have hundreds of millions of more people using Facebook.

　　今后 5年内，我们希望数以亿计的网民使用脸谱网服务

　　But it’s more about using the system to make other sites more social.

　　但更重要的是利用系统使得其他的网站更加的社会化。

1 irony   

n.反语，冷嘲；具有讽刺意味的事，嘲弄

参考例句：

• She said to him with slight irony.她略带嘲讽地对他说。
• In her voice we could sense a certain tinge of irony.从她的声音里我们可以感到某种讥讽的意味。

2 underlying   

adj.在下面的，含蓄的，潜在的

参考例句：

• The underlying theme of the novel is very serious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。
• This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。