创业成功人士访谈录 第49期:我认为推特网结合了很多东西(4)

 　　And I have been an entrepreneur since birth, at least in my mind.

　　我自出生以来就是一名企业家，至少我自己是这样认为的。

　　And I like creating things that are new. I like working things that are new.

　　我喜欢创造新的事物。喜欢新颖的东西。

　　And I felt a similar thing when I created Blogger, and then was part of the team that created Twitter, that this is really fun.

　　我在创建博客网和推特网时感觉到了类似的东西。我觉得这非常有趣。

　　I don’t know where it’s going, but there is something very fundamental about what this can do.

　　虽然我不知道它们将会如何发展，但这都是我基于经验作出判断。

　　And of course, when Twitter came out, it had all the Blogger experience, so it was based on a lot more experience. And I thought, well, people will like this.

　　当然，当推特网诞生之时，我已经有了博客网的相关经验，所以推特网是建立在经验之上的。我当时想，大家一定会喜欢。

　　Where is blogging today?

　　博客的现状怎样？

　　Blogging is an interesting place today, I think, because it’s still actually a huge part of the Web.

　　它现在处于一个很有意思的位置。我想是因为它仍然是互联网的很大一部分。

　　There are millions of people who blog daily. But what it is, it’s kind of morphing, I think. So it depends on how strict you define it.

　　数百万的人每天登录博客。但我想这是一种“变异”，要看你怎样去定义。

　　Morphing, yeah.

　　变异，嗯。

　　So, blogging has always been hard to define, which is why that question is a difficult one.

　　是的，博客一直很难定义，所以这个问题很难回答。

　　Because is what一a lot of the motivations to blog and the same acts are that people—what has started on Blogger, com for are tapped by people’s participation¹ in Facebook or MySpace or Twitter now.

　　人们原先只在博客网这样纯粹的博客网站上写博客，但是现在却都通过脸谱网、聚友网和推特网来写博客。

　　So I think as a-if you look at it generally, it’s bigger than ever and pretty much growing, but it’s definitely evolving.

　　从总体上看，博客的规模的确比以往更大，确实也在发展，但博客的确处在变革中。

　　Is what we are talking about, in terms of social networking, in terms of Twitter and tweeting, is it at the essence of where sort of the Internet revolution is, the idea of community?

　　从社交网络和推特网以及使用推特网的角度来看，我们现在正在谈的可以说是互联网革命的本质是——沟通的概念吗？

　　The idea that you can take this remarkable² tool and use it to create a community that brings friendship, as well as information as well as something else?

　　是你可以使用 这个不同寻常的工具去创造一种交友、 获取信息或其他的沟通方式的概念吗？

　　I think it does all of that. And I think.

　　我想它涵盖了所有，并且我认为……

　　But how powerful of a force is it, in terms of shaping the way the Internet is used today?

　　但是对于塑造今天的互联网来说，它有多大的功效呢？

1 participation   

n.参与，参加，分享

参考例句：

• Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
• The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。

2 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。