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A

great

deal

of

attention

is

being

paid

today

to the

so- called

digital

divide

--

the

division

of

the

w

orld

into

the

info

(information)

rich

and

the

info

poor.

And

that

divide

does

exist

today.

My

wife

a

nd

I

lectured

about

this

looming

danger

twenty

years

ago. What

was

less

visible

then,

however,

were

the

new,

positive

forces

that

work

against

the

digital

divide.

There

are

reasons

to

be

optimis

tic.

There

are

technological

reasons

to

hope

the

digital

divide

will

narrow.

As

the

internet

becomes

mo

re

and

more

commercialized,

it

is

in

the

Internet

of

business

to

universalize

access-after

all,

the

m

ore

people

online,

the

more

potential

customers

there

are.

More

and

more

governments

afraid

thei

r

countries

will

be

left

behind

want

to

spread

Internet

access.

Within

the

next

decade

or

two,

one

to

two

billion

people

on

the

planet

will

be

netted

together.

As

a

result,

I

now

believe

the

digital

divide

will

narrow

rather

than

widen

in

the

years

ahead.

And

that

is

very

good

news

because

the

Internet

may

well

be

the

most

powerful

tool

for

combating

world

poverty

that

we've

ever

had.

Of

course,

the

use

of

the

Internet

isn't

the

only

way

to

defeat

poverty.

And

the

Internet

is

not

th

e

only

tool

we

have.

But

it

has

enormous

potential.

To

take

advantage

of

this

tool,

some

impov

erished

countries

will

have

to

get

over

their

outdated

anti-colonial

prejudices

with

respect

to

foreign

investment.

Countries

that

still

think

foreign

investm

ent

is

an

invasion

of

their

sovereignty

might

well

study the

history

of

infrastructure

in

the

Unit

ed

States.

When

the

United

States

built

its

industrial

infrastructure,

it

didn't

have

the

capital

to

do

so.

And

that

is

why

America's

Second Wave

infrastructure

--

including

roads,

harbors,

highways,

ports

and

so

on

--

was

built

with

foreign

investment.

The

English,

the

Germans,

the

Dutch

and

the

Fre

nch

were

investing

in

Britain's

former

colony.

They

financed

them.

Immigrant

Americans

built

them.

Guess

who

owns

them

now?

The

Americans.

I

believe

the

same

thing

would

be

true

in

places

lik

e

Brazil

or

anywhere

else

for

that

matter.

The

more

foreign

capital

you

have

helping

you

build

yo

ur

Third

Wave

infrastructure,

which

today

is

an

electronic

infrastructure,

the

better

off

you're

goin

g

to

be.

That

doesn't

mean

lying

down

and

becoming

fooled,

or

letting

foreign

corporations

run

u

ncontrolled.

But

it

does

mean

recognizing

how

important

they

can

be

in

building

the

energy

and

t

elecom

infrastructures

needed

to

take

full

advantage

of

the

Internet.

译文

今天，

人们十分关注所谓的数字分化问题

——< /p>

世界分成信息富有和信息贫困两部分。

当今这种分化确实存在，< /p>

我和妻子

20

年前就曾谈到这一迫近的危 险。然而，当时还不太明显的是存在着一些新的积极因素来抵制数

字分化。我们完全有理 由感到乐观。

一些技术上的因素使我们有理由期望分化会缩小 。随着互联网的日趋商业化，网上交易变得普及

——

毕竟，

上网人数越来越多，潜在客户就越多。越来越多的政府唯恐自己的国家落后，纷纷推广互联网 接人。在一、

二十年之内，全球将有一、二十亿人互联。因此，我认为在未来的数年中， 数字分化将缩小而不会变大。

这是好消息，因为互联网很可能成为与我们所面临的贫困做 斗争的最有力的工具。

当然，互联网的使用不是消除贫困的唯 一方法。互联网也不是我们所拥有的唯一工具，但它拥有巨大潜力。

< br>想要利用互联网，一些贫困国家就必须克服对国外投资所持有的那种过时的、反殖民的种种偏见。那些认< /p>

为国外投资是对本国主权侵犯的国家最好还是好好研究一下美国基础设施的历史。当初美国 建立自己的工

业基础设施时，缺乏必要资金，因此美国的第二波基础设施浪潮

包括公路、海港、高速公路、码头等等

——< /p>

都是用国外资金建造的。英国人、德国人、荷兰人和法国人都在前英国殖民地投资。他们提 供资金，美

国移民者来建造。想想看，谁拥有这一切？是美国人。我想，就这一点来说， 巴西或其他任何地方同样也

该这样。

在建设第三波基础设施的浪 潮

(

今天主要指电子基础设施

)

中，

拥有的国外资金越多，

那么情况将会

越好。这并不是要卑躬屈膝、认人愚弄，也不是对国外公司不加控制，而是意味着你已认识到 国外公司对

本国能源及通信基础设施建设的重要性，而这些基础设施则需要充分利用互联 网。

记单词

access

n.

进口，人口；取得的方法

派生：

accessible

a.

易接近的，可到达的

accession

n.

就职

例句：

The

only

access

to

their

house

is

along

that

narrow

road.

只有沿着那条狭窄的路走才能到达他

们的房子。

词组：

access

to

接近；

have/gain

access

to

可以获得；

easy

of

access

易于接近

anti-colonial

a.

反殖民的

commercialize

v.

使商业化，使商品化

派生：

commerce

n.

商业，商务，贸易

commercialism

n.

商业主义

commercial

a.

商业的，盈利的，商

品化的

例句：

Love

matters

should

not

be commercialized.

不应该把恋爱商品化。

combat

n.

战斗，斗争

v.

与

……

战斗

例句：

The

troop

has

much

experience

of

actual

combat.

这支部队有实际作战经验。

辨析：< /p>

war

；

battle

< br>；

combat

war

指全面战争；

battle

指局部战争；

combat

指比

battle

规模小的战斗。

corporation

n.

公司；法人

派生：

corporate

a.

团体的；社团的，全体的

例句：

It

grew

from

a

tiny

start-up

to

a

multimillion-dollar

corporation.

那家公司从小小的新公司发展

成数百万美元的大公司。

decade

n.

十年

例句：

This

should

be

the

aim

over

the

next

decade,

it

is

crucial

to

our

survival.

这应该成为今后十

年的奋斗目标，它关系到我们的生死存亡。

defeat

v.

战胜；打败

例句：

Our

school

defeated

another

school

at

football.

在足球比赛中我们学校战胜了另一个学校。

divide

v.

分，分割；分配，分享

派生：

division

n.

分割，除法

例句：

Fire-break

divided

them

at

conveniently

spaced

intervals.

防火带把他们的距离适当分开了。

词组：

divide…into

分，划分、除，除尽；

divide

among/between

在

……

之中分配；

divide

sth.

with

sb.

与某人分享某物；

divide

by

除以

辨析：

separate,

divide

separate

指把原来连接在一起的或者靠近的东西分割开来；

divide

是指把整体分成若干份。

enormous

a.

巨大的，庞大的，极大的

派生：

enormously

ad.

巨大地，极大地

例句：

An

enormous

gap

remains

between

the

advanced

countries

and

the

developing

countries.

在

先进国家和发展中国家之间仍然存在着巨大的差距。

辨析：

enormous,

huge

enormous

巨大的，较

huge

正式，暗示超出寻常体积或程度，超大；

huge

量之极多，体积之巨大。

finance

n.

财政；金融

v.

< br>为

……

筹集资金，供以经费

派生：

financial

a.

财政的，金融的

例句：

She

is

an

expert

in

finance.

她是一位金融专家。

The

government

will

finance

the

new

building

with

the

taxes

it

collected.

政府将用征缴的税收为新

建筑筹集资金。

impoverish

v.

使

……

困难；使

……

贫瘠，恶化

派生：

impoverishment

n.

贫困

例句：

Our

lives

would

have

been

greatly

impoverished

if

we

had

not

got this

job.

如果我们没有这份

工作，我们的生活会很贫困。

infrastructure

n.

基础结构；基础设施

例句：

Vast

sums

are

needed

to

keep

the

infrastructure.

保养基础设施需要大量资金。

invasion

n.

侵略，侵犯

派生：

invade

v.

侵略，入侵

invader

n.

侵略者

例句：

The

navy

is

our

principal

bulwark

against

invasion.

海军是我们抵御侵略者的重要保障。

investment

n.

投资，投资额

派生：

invest v.

投资，投入

investor

n.

投资者

例句：

He

made

an

investment

of

$$

10,000

in

the

supermarket.

她在这个超市投资了

1

万美元。

loom

v.

隐约出现；逼近

例句：

A

figure

loomed

out

of

the

forest.

一个影子隐约在森林出现。

词组：

loom

large

赫然耸现；显得严重

potential

a.

潜在的；有可能的

n.

潜力

例句：

For years,

scientists

have

debated

the

potential

impact

of

oil

spills.

多少年来，

科学家们就一直

在探讨石油溢漏 可能造成的影响。

词组：

be

potential

for

对

……

有潜力，有可能

prejudice

n.

成见，偏见

例句：

We

should

cast

away

all

prejudices

to

deal

with

this

problem.

我们应该抛弃所有偏见来处理这