3月25日,Facebook创始人兼CEO马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)在7家英国报纸和3家美国报纸上刊登了全版道歉广告。这次“信息泄露危机”着实让小扎出了很多血和钱。不仅仅市值蒸发500亿,还失去了用户了信任。
小扎为啥要道歉呢?因为facebook泄露了5000万用户的个人信息,事情简述是这样的,一家名叫“剑桥分析”(Cambridge Analytica)在facebook投放了一个个性小测试的app,然后用户需要“同意授权个人信息”才能进行测试,从而这样这家营销公司就套取了5000万用户的私人信息。因为facebook对于投放主没有做好很好的审核工作,从而使用户信息泄露,应该承担相应的责任。
下面我们来学习一下这封道歉信中的一些语言点:
标题:We have a responsibility to protect your infomration.
If we can't, we don't deserve it.
我们有责任保护你的信息。如果我们没做到,我们就不配。
* have a responsibility to do sth..有责任去做某事
eg. I have a responsibility to take care of my wife. 我有责任去照顾我的妻子。
* protect your information 保护你的信息
information的缩写是info。data是数据的意思。
* deserve 配得,值得,后面 名词
eg. I don't deserve this 我不配。
You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014. This was a breach of trust,and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time.We're now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again.
你可能听说了在2014年,由一个大学老师创建的一个问答app泄露了数百万人的facebook信息。这破坏了信任。我们那时候没有做更多的措施,我感到很抱歉。现在我们会采取措施,确保这种事情不会再次发生。
* may have heard about...可能有听说
这个是虚拟语气。
* a quiz app 答题app
这种app或小程序最近很火,小心被套了数据。授权需谨慎。
* leak 泄露
* a breach of trust 信用破坏;信用破裂
eg. What he did was a breach of trust. 他所作的是信用背弃的行为。
*take steps to do... 采取行动做某事= take measures to do
* make sure 确信,肯定,确保
eg. To make sure you are right, let me ask the professor first.
为了确保你是对的,让我问问教授先。
We've already stopped apps like this from getting so much information.Now we're limiting the data apps get when you sign in using Facebook.
我们已经停止授权给像这样的app太多的信息。当你登陆使用facebook时,现在我们已经限制数据app获取信息了。
* stop sth from doing...防止....阻止.....做什么
eg. The rain stop him from going home. 这雨让他不能回家。
* sign in ...登陆= log in / log on..
eg. Please sign in your account. 请你登陆你的账户。
We're also investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected.
在我们整顿之前,我们也开始调查每个人之前有获取大量数据的app了。我们觉得应该会有其他一些app。当我们找到他们时,我们会封杀他们,并且告诉受影响的每个人。
* have access to....接触,触及,达到
* large amounts of data 大量的数据
* fix 处理= deal with
eg. Could you fix this problem for me? 你能帮我处理这个问题吗?
*ban sth. 禁止....封杀...
eg. The drug has been banned in China. 在中国毒品被禁。
* affected 受影响
后置定语形容everyone,相当于everyone ( who had been/ was) affected.
Finally, we'll remind you which apps you've given access to your information- so you can shut off the ones you don't want anymore.
Thank you for believing in this community. I promise to do better for you.
最后,我们将会提醒你哪些app你已经授权了你的信息,所以你可以关掉那些你不需要的app。
谢谢你信任这个社区。我保证为了你们我会做得更出色。
* remind sb. 提醒某人
* shut off 关闭
* believe in 相信
* promise to do 保证做某事
整篇文章单词不难,结构严谨,反正是一贯的官方风格的“公关文”。希望小扎能挺过这一关。有的时候赚钱也是有风险的。
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