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If you’re one in a million in China, there are 1300 people just like you.
在中國(guó),如果你是萬(wàn)里挑一的精英,那么仍有1300個(gè)和你一樣優(yōu)秀的人。
China will soon become the Number One English-speaking country in the world.
中國(guó)將很快成為世界上說(shuō)英語(yǔ)人數(shù)最多的國(guó)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(guó)的總?cè)丝跀?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(guò)2億注冊(cè)用戶。如果MySpace是一個(gè)國(guó)家的話,它將是世界第五大國(guó)。
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(wàn)個(gè),是莎士比亞時(shí)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starting a-4-year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.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?jī)赡昃驮鲩L(zhǎng)一倍,這對(duì)于4年制理工學(xué)生的意義是:一年級(jí)學(xué)的知識(shí)到了三年級(jí)有一半就過(guò)時(shí)了。
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.
預(yù)測(cè)到2049年,一部1000美元的電腦將超越全球人腦運(yùn)算能力的總和。