英语新闻听写 脸书因数据泄露丑闻面临国际调查

Facebook is facing international investigations¹ into the illicit² harvesting of users' personal data.

脸书因非法获取用户个人资料而面临国际调查。

The information was collected by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

该信息是由政治咨询公司“剑桥分析”收集的。

The company backed President Trumps³ 2016 election campaign.

该公司支持川普总统2016年的总统竞选。

According to a whistleblower, Cambridge Analytica gathered data from 50 million Facebook users.

告密者表示，“剑桥分析”搜集了5000万脸书用户的资料。

With their data the company developed a software program that profiled these citizens to predict voting patterns.

该公司使用他们的资料开发了一款软件程序，它能根据这些公民的个人简介预测投票模型。

Through micro-targeted ads, US citizens voting decisions were influenced.

通过微型定向广告，美国公民的投票决定受到了影响。

1 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

2 illicit   

adj.非法的，禁止的，不正当的

参考例句：

• He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
• Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。

3 trumps   

abbr.trumpets 喇叭；小号；喇叭形状的东西；喇叭筒v.（牌戏）出王牌赢（一牌或一墩）( trump的过去式 )；吹号公告，吹号庆祝；吹喇叭；捏造

参考例句：

• On the day of the match the team turned up trumps. 比赛那天该队出乎意料地获得胜利。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Every time John is late getting home he trumps up some new excuse. 每次约翰晚回家都会编造个新借口。 来自《简明英汉词典》