万花筒 2010-05-09&05-10 第十四届威比奖（Webby Awar

This spring-like statuette will be handed out next month on June 14th in New York City. Hey, you see last year’s recipient¹ for the Best Political Blog Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, receiving her statuette, so who will pick it up this year. Let’s begin with music, the Artist of the Year for 2010 is:

 

OK Go, this is the band's video for This Too Shall Pass, it attracted more than 12 million views within just two months, and they won what Webby's called “a genius approach to videos, raising the bar for modern music”. But the Best Viral Video, however, goes to the Muppets, check this out. This is their rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody. This video attracted 14 million views on YouTube alone. 

 

Now take a look at social networking sites, Twitter, no surprise here, won the award for Best Social Networking site. Foursquare.com won the award for Best Mobile Social Networking Site. This service allows you to share your exact location with your friends.

 

Now this year, the Webby said something different, there are two awards, that General Webby Award decided² on by a team of 500 internet experts, but they also introduced the People's Voice Award, allowing anyone in the world to vote online, more than a million people did cast their votes. Now on the most serious note, they awarded a famed Film Critic Roger Ebert with their Person of the Year Award. The famed critic lost his voice because of a surgery for cancer, but the Webby say his online journal here Roger ebert.com raise the bar for thoughtfulness. And the ceremony will be hosted by actor B.J. Novak and recipients³ can only deliver a five-word acceptance speech, so just enough to say thanks.
 

1 recipient   

a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器

参考例句：

• Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
• Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》