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You may be familiar with the statistic that 90% of the world’s data was created in the last few years. It’s true. One of the first mentions of this particular formulation I can find dates back to May 2013, but the trend remains remarkably constant.Indeed, every two years for about the last three decades the amount of data in the world has increased by about 10 times – a rate that puts even Moore’s law of doubling processor power to shame.

全世界90%的數據都是最近幾年生成的，人們對這個結論可能已經耳熟能詳。盡管我能找到的這個說法的最早出處是在2013年5月，但是，這種趨勢卻始終未曾發生變化。事實上，過去30年間，每隔兩年，全球總數據量就會增長大約10倍——這讓計算機行業的摩爾定律相形見絀。

【經典句式】

statistic統計;數據

formulation形成

date back to … 追溯到

trend趨勢

remain保持

remarkably顯著地

constant持續的

rate速度;比例;率

put… to shame讓……相形見絀

processor處理器

One of the problems with such a rate of information increase is that the present moment will always loom far larger than even the recent past. Imagine looking back over a photo album representing the first 18 years of your life, from birth to adulthood. Let’s say that you have two photos for your first two years. Assuming a rate of information increase matching that of the world’s data, you will have an impressive 2,000 photos representing the years six to eight; 200,000 for the years 10 to 12; and a staggering 200,000,000 for the years 16 to 18.That’s more than three photographs for every single second of those final two years.

信息爆炸所帶來的問題之一在于，即便和不久之前相比，當前的信息量規模都會大到不可思議的程度。想象一下有一本信息影集代表了你從嬰兒到成年的前18年人生，并且照片數量的增長速度和全球數據量保持一致，比如說頭兩年你只有兩張照片，那么從6歲到8歲的兩年間你就會有兩千張照片，從10歲到12歲有20萬張，從16歲到18歲則有驚人的2億張，這意味著在16-18歲期間你每秒鐘就會拍3張照片。

【大作文萬用句式】

One of the problems with…is that ……所帶來的問題之一在于…

Imagine … 想象一下……(舉例)

Let’s say that … 比如說……

Assuming …, you will have…假設…的話，那么…

【經典句式】

rate速度;比例;率

loom潛伏

look back over回頭看

photo album 影集

represent代表

from birth to adulthood從嬰兒到成年

impressive讓人印象深刻的

staggering驚人的

This isn’t a perfect analogy with global data,of course. For a start, much of the world’s data increase is due to more sources of information being created by more people, along with far larger and more detailed formats. But the point about proportionality stands. If you were to look back over a record like the one above, or try to analyse it,the more distant past would shrivel into meaningless insignificance. How could it not, with so many times less information available?

當然，全球數據不能這樣簡單類比。全球數據增長的主要原因在于更多的人口產生了更多信息源，以及更大的和更復雜詳細的信息結構。然而，如果試圖回顧或分析與上文所述影集類似的歷史記錄，你會發現一個相同點，越遙遠的歷史所留下的信息和記錄就會越稀少。怎么會發生這種事情呢?

【經典句式】

an analogy with … ……的類比

source of information信息源

along with … 和……一起

format形式

look back over回頭看

analyse分析

distant遙遠的

shrivel枯萎

【大作文萬用句式】

For a start, …首先……

But the point about … stands.然而觀點還是成立的。

【犀利觀點】信息爆炸：

Much of the world’s data increase is due to more sources of information being created by more people, along with far larger and more detailed formats.

Here’s the problem with much of the big data currently being gathered and analysed. The moment you start looking backwards to seek the longer view, you have far too much of the recent stuff and far too little of the old. Short-sightedness is built into the structure, in the form of an overwhelming tendency to over-estimate short-term trendsat the expense of history.

這就是目前大數據采集分析中存在的一項弊端。一旦你開始回顧歷史、試圖獲取一個更為長久的眼光，就會發現近期數據的數量遠遠超過遠期歷史數據。短視已經成為一種無法阻擋的趨勢、以犧牲歷史為代價、過度看重短期趨勢，并已經被內化為系統的一部分。

【大作文萬用句式】

Here’s the problem with …這就是……中存在的一項弊端。

… is built into the structure, in the form of ……已經被內化為系統的一部分，以…的形式。

【經典句式】

gather收集

look backwards回顧

seek追求

the longer view長期視野

short-sightedness短視;鼠目寸光

overwhelming無法阻擋的

tendency趨勢

over-estimate過度看重

short-term trend短期趨勢

at the expense of … 以……為代價