(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
Researchers say they can use news stories to help predict the future. Scientists from the University of Illinois in the USA input over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis. The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many sources, including the BBC and New York Times. The data showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their recent revolutions. The computer also saw early indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was captured. Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts spot future trouble in potential hotspots around the world. Business strategists already do a similar thing to advise their clients.
Leetar explained the importance of news to look into the future: “News gives you incredible information about people, places, and organizations. It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people view each other,” he said. Leetaru used terabytes of data to look at three key areas. One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing. It used 1,500 different emotions to build an assessment of a country’s stability. Secondly, it examined geocoding to track references to people’s movement. A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels focused on one place. Leetaru likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: It's never perfect, but we do better than random guessing."
中文翻译
研究人员认为新闻可以预测未来
丽塔向我们解释了“新闻预测未来”的重要性
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重点讲解
1.liken to 把…比拟为
例句:She likens marriage to slavery.
她把婚姻比作奴役
。2.look at 审视
例句:The difficulty can now be looked at in a different light.
现在可以用不同的角度来看这个困难
。3.around the world 全世界
例句:It happens all the time around the world.
世界各地随时都有这种情况发生
。4.focus on 集中于
例句:Our meeting focuses on the question of women's right.
我们会议的重点是妇女权利问题
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