万花筒 2010-01-19&01-20 谷歌放弃中国市场？

The news that Google might abandon. China had some web users in Beijing in mourning,leaving flowers at the Internet giant, even tears. But despite its entrance into the Chinese market even with the government's strict censorship rules.Google now says an attempt to hack² into its Gmail to identify human rights, activists³ is one dangerous step too far.

We've decided⁴ to change our approach to China.

 

Google now says it done cooperate with the Chinese government and will no longer censor¹ its search engine. Most experts say that's tantamount to closing up shop for good.

 

Nothing the Chinese government has done over the past couple of years would indicate any possibility that they would be willing to tolerate an uncensored search engine to operate from inside China.

 

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton expresses serious concern.It's about the spying allegations and wants explanation from the Chinese government. Google's legal counsel says there is real reason to worry.

 

All of us need to take care,because all of us could be the subject of this kind of scan, not just users of Google or Gmail,it's really users of any computers.

 

Human rights groups upset that Google ever agreed to censorship in the first place now applauding its new hard line stands but not everybody's held.

 

This man says Google was unrealistic to expect change over night, And challenging the government now is the wrong thing to do.Still Google may abandon a market of some 300 million web users. Although its share of that lucrative⁵ market remains⁶ small, its potential seemed almost limitless.

 

Lee Cowan NBC news, Los Angeles.
 

1 censor   

n./vt.审查，审查员；删改

参考例句：

• The film has not been viewed by the censor.这部影片还未经审查人员审查。
• The play was banned by the censor.该剧本被查禁了。

2 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

3 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 lucrative   

adj.赚钱的，可获利的

参考例句：

• He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
• It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。