我們經(jīng)常可以看到新聞:某人如何成功,多么厲害,取得多高的成就!如果你看到這篇寫給美國年輕人的勵志文章,或許,得到的不是一點點震撼……
If you’re one in a million in China, there are 1300 people just like you.
在中國,如果你是萬里挑一的精英,那么仍有1300個和你一樣優(yōu)秀的人。
China will soon become the Number One English-speaking country in the world.
中國將很快成為世界上說英語人數(shù)最多的國家。
25% of India’s population with the highest IQ is greater than the total population of the United States.
擁有高智商的印度人,占其人口的25%,這一人群比美國的總人口數(shù)還多。
There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world.
社交網(wǎng)站MySpace有超過2億注冊用戶。如果MySpace是一個國家的話,它將是世界第五大國。
There are about 540,000 words in English language, about 5 times as many as those during Shakespeare’s time.
現(xiàn)今的英文單詞約有54萬個,是莎士比亞時代的五倍。
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a-4-year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
新科技的資訊量每兩年就增長一倍,這對于4年制理工學生的意義是:一年級學的知識到了三年級有一半就過時了。
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.
預測到2049年,一部1000美元的電腦將超越全球人腦運算能力的總和。