1、翻译练习讲解Day 20,For the past two years in Silicon Valley,the centre of Americas technology industry,conference-goers have entertained themselves playing a guessing game:how many times will a speaker mention the phrase“long tail”?It is usually a high number,thanks to the influence of the long-tail theor
2、y,which was first developed by Chris Anderson,the editor of Wired magazine,in an article in 2004.过去两年来，美国科技产业中心硅谷中参加各类会议的人们都自娱自乐地玩着一种猜谜游戏：一位演讲者会多少次提到“长尾巴”一词？一般而言，次数会很多。这是“长尾巴理论”的影响使然，连线杂志编辑克里斯安德森于2004年在一篇文章中首创了这一理论。,Though technologists and bloggers chuckle at how every business presentation now has
3、 to have its long-tail section,most are envious of Mr Anderson,whose brainwave quickly became the most fashionable business idea around.对于如今每个行业都必须表现出其自身的“长尾巴”，技术专家和博客作家们都觉得很可笑，不过他们多数人都很妒忌安德森，此人的灵感竟然迅速成了风靡一时的商业理念。,安德森认为，那些瞄准市场特殊领域、市场定位模糊或者针对专业人士的产品虽然不能“热销”，但也会逐渐发展壮大。为了证明这一点，他指出，一直以来通过“二八定律”来计算收入/销售比
4、的公司数量已经有所减少。根据“二八定律”，80%的收入都来自销售额居前5位的产品。旧金山数字唱片公司Ecast发现，在1万张唱片中，有98%的唱片每3个月就至少售出1个曲目。The niche,the obscure and the specialist,Mr Anderson argues,will gain ground at the expense of the hit.As evidence,he points to a drop in the number of companies that traditionally calculate their revenue/sales ra
5、tio according to the 80/20 rulewhere the top fifth of products contribute four-fifths of revenues.Ecast,a San Francisco digital jukebox company,found that 98%of its 10,000 albums sold at least one track every three months.,口语练习Day 20,On the afternoon of February 14,2018,a mass shooting occurred at M
6、arjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,Florida.Seventeen people were killed and fourteen more were taken to hospitals,making it one of the worlds deadliest school massacres.The suspected perpetrator,19-year-old Nikolas Cruz,was arrested shortly afterward and confessed,according to the Browa
7、rd County Sheriffs Office(BSO).He was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.,The BSO received tips in 2016 and 2017 about Cruzs threats to carry out a school shooting.The FBI received a tip in September 2017 that a YouTube user called nikolas cruz wanted to be a professional school shooter.I
8、n January 2018,the FBIs hotline received another tip,which alleged that Cruz had made a death threat and potentially would shoot up a school.Police and prosecutors have not yet established a motive and are investigating a pattern of disciplinary issues and unnerving behavior.Some of the students who
9、 survived the shooting became gun control activists and founded the advocacy group Never Again MSD.,表达练习Day 20,Should children make decisions on their own?How should parents help their children make decisions?When young people are to make decision,should they listen to some advice?,英汉口译 Day 20,大概内容：美国女性警官占比较低，招募女性警官/警员要求严苛，标准不公平也不合理。音频特点：逻辑性很强/思路清晰语速较慢口音纯正难点：英译汉思维转换数字较多（笔记需注意）列举较多有生词-听不懂-译不出,各位加油！,
