新奇事件簿 脸谱网向15岁神童伸出橄榄枝

Tech giants Facebook and Google are in competition to attract the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian teenager Ben Pasternak sparked the interest of the companies after he designed an app for a game called Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch in October.The addictive¹ game managed to climb higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook's internship² department for a tour of the company's headquarters in California. He is also being wooed by Google, whose vice³ president has asked him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their future developers.

脸谱网和谷歌正在为一名15岁的应用开发员而展开了激烈的竞争。本-帕斯特纳克，这名15岁的澳大利亚青年曾经设计了一款名叫Impossible Rush的游戏应用，之后两家公司都对他产生了兴趣。自从这款游戏在10月份发布以来，下载量超过了50万次。没想到这款应用程序的人气居然超过了苹果商店中的短视频应用Vine和交友应用Tinder。 脸谱网站的实习部门邀请帕斯特纳克来到了加利福尼亚的总部进行参观。谷歌也对他伸出了橄榄枝，其副总裁还邀请他来参观他的校园。两家公司都希望帕斯特纳克能够成为他们未来的开发人员。

Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs accepted on a Google and MIT sponsored event called Hack⁴ Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten countries across the world. They willcollaborate on a 36-hour project to create a sellable product. They will also listen to featured speakers from the technology and hacking⁵ world. Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and clearly ambitious. He has shown the world that age is just a number." He added that:"[Pasternak's] iPhone app was extremely impressive and if we were to guess, we would never imagine it was run by a 15-year-old."

帕斯特纳克也是450名高中年龄企业家之一，他们都参加了由谷歌和麻省理工大学承办的名叫“黑客Y一代”的项目。这些高中生来自全世界各个国家。他们将通力协作，并在36小时之内创作出一款能够销售的产品。他们也将参加来自技术和黑客世界领军人物的演讲。迈克尔·马蒂斯是这项活动的组织者，他说：“帕斯特纳克是一名年轻的企业家，非常有志向。他向全世界证明年龄只是个数字而已。”他还说：“他做的苹果手机应用让人印象深刻，如果让我们猜的话，我们绝不会想到这是15岁男孩做出来的。”

1 addictive   

adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的，成为习惯的

参考例句：

• The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
• Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。

2 internship   

n.实习医师，实习医师期

参考例句：

• an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
• a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习

3 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

4 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。

5 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。