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One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to find things. To find a copy of The Ec

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问题     One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a newsstand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type it in "economist" and you will be instantly directed to economist.com. (46)Indeed, until Google, now the world’s most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair.
    Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so much better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. (47)Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for non-specialist users, many of whom regard Google as the Internet’s front door. It’s now a worldwide phenomenon. Not only has it made the Internet into an extremely fast and valuable research tool, it’s become a common word and has even created a new verb "to google". (48)The recent fuss over Google’s stock market flotation obscures its far wider social significance: few technologies, after all, are so influential that their names have become a household verb such as the cloning technology creates the verb "to clone".
    Google began in 1998 as an academic research project by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, who were then graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was not the first search engine, of course. (49)Existing search engines were able to scan a large portion of the web, build an index, and then find pages that matched particular words, but were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way.
    Mr. Brin’s and Mr. Page’s accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so by using a mathematical program, called PageRank. (50)This program is at the heart of Google’s success, distinguishing it from all search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages. With this powerful ability, Google distinguished itself from among all the search engines and became an established standing research tool in the online world.

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答案几乎一夜之间，尤其是对非专业的使用者来说，谷歌使网络变得非常有用；现在，他们当中许多人把谷歌看成是互联网的门户。
解析 此句包含一个非限定性定语从句，并且这个定语从句的时态与主句不同。由于非限定性定语从句many of whom regard Google as the Internet’s front door表示对先行词non-specialist users的补充说明或修饰，并不是必要成份，因此，我们可以将其翻译成独立的句子，让其脱离所修饰的先行词。另外，此从句的时态是现在时，与主语不一致，翻译时在特别注意两部分时态的差异。从整体分析，主句说明谷歌让非专业人员使用网络更加方便，从句是说这些非专业人员中许多人(随着使用习惯的形成)目前把谷歌看成是互联网的门户。因此，我们在翻译时加上了时间状语"现在"已显示出英语原句时态的差异。考查点：非限定性定语从句的翻译；同一句子中不同时态的翻译。
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