(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
For the first time on Twitter, people will be able to send messages that are longer than 140 characters. While tweets will still be restricted to the 140-character limit, Direct Messages (DMs) will be capped at 10,000 characters. These are the personal communications sent from one person to another. Twitter's Product Manager Sachin Agarwal blogged about the change. He wrote: "You can now chat on and on in a single Direct Message and likely still have some characters left over." He added: "While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations....Tweets…are an opportunity for you to spark a conversation about what's happening in your world."
Twitter users will experience the change over the next few weeks as Twitter rolls out the new system worldwide on a country-by-country basis. The site's co-founder Jack Dorsey recently admitted Twitter needed to do better to keep up with its social networking competitors. Twitter currently has about 300 million global users while rival Facebook has more than 1.4 billion. Sites like Facebook and WhatsApp have spent a lot of money on making their messaging services more user-friendly. Twitter has had a similar focus throughout this year. It recently allowed group DMs and allowed people to accept private messages from people even if they do not follow them.
中文翻译
推特首次取消私信当中140个字符限制
在未来几周内,推特将在全球推出以各国规定为基础的新系统,推特用户也将感受到它的变化
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重点讲解
1.private conversation 私人谈话
例句:For example, it finds “call me” moments — those incidents when an employee decides to hide a particular action by having a private conversation.
例如,它发现“打电话给我”的时刻,这些是当一个员工决定通过私人间的谈话来隐藏一个特别的行动的时候
。2.keep up with 赶得上
例句:Hurry up, or you won't keep up with them.
快点,否则你就赶不上他们了
。3.spark a conversation 引发讨论
例句:Obviously our rankings are not intended to be definitive; they are meant to spark a conversation, even an argument or two.
我们的排名显然不是为了给出定论;他们必然会引发讨论,甚而争论,或兼有之
。4.restricted to 局限于
例句:In this case, they would be restricted to only running in the global environment.
在这种情况下,这将限制为仅在全局环境中运行
。听力题目
1.What will the character limit be on tweets?
a) 10,000
b) 140
c) depends on the price
d) there isn't one
2.What will the character limit be on Direct Messages?
a) depends on the price
b) there isn't one
c) 140
d) 10,000
3.What is Sachin Agarwal's job?
a) CEO
b) chief bean counter
c) product manager
d) webmaster
4.What kind of experience did Sachin Agarwal say Twitter was?
a) a public one
b) a fulfilling one
c) an online one
d) a friendly one
5.What did Sachin Agarwal say Twitter could spark?
a) fires
b) conversation
c) news
d) fights
6.When will Twitter roll out the new changes?
a) over the next few weeks
b) 2017
c) from tomorrow
d) it hasn't decided
7.How will Twitter roll out the changes worldwide?
a) online
b) slowly
c) on a country-by-country basis
d) first come first served
8.How many followers does Twitter have?
a) 300 million
b) 400 million
c) 1.4 billion
d) 14 million
9.Which other site is mentioned spending money besides Facebook?
a) YouTube
b) MySpace
c) SnapChat
d) WhatsApp
10.When did Twitter allow group DMs?
a) 2011
b) 2012
c) recently
d) from the beginning
听力答案
1.b
2.d
3.c
4.a
5.b
6.a
7.c
8.a
9.d
10.c