If you're one in a million in China, there are 1300 people just like you. 在中国,如果你是百万取一的精英,那么仍有1300个和你势均力敌的竞争者。 China will soon become the Number One English-speaking country in the world. 中国将很快成为世界上说英语人数最多的国家。 The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater than the total population of the United States. 在印度,智商前25%的人比美国的总人口还多。 There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If MySpace were are country, it would be the 5th largest in the world. 社交网站MySpace有超过2亿注册用户。如果MySpace是一个国家的话,它将是世界第五大国。 There are about 540,000 words in the English languae, about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare's time. 现今的英文单词约有54万个之巨,为莎士比亚时代的五倍。 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starting a 4 year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study. 新科技的资讯量每2年就增长一倍,这对于4年制理工学生的意义是,一年级时学的知识有一半到了三年级就过时了。 Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. 预测到2049年,一部1千美元的电脑将超越全球人脑的运算能力总和。 |