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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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答案最近谷歌在股票市场上的波动引起了人们的争议，但是这些争议却掩盖了谷歌所带来的相当深远的社会意义：几乎没有什么技术的影响力如此之巨大以至于它们的名字都变成了一个常用的动词，正如克隆技术产生了动词"克隆"一样。
解析 此题目句子较长，需要与它前面的句子联系起来理解。前一句说谷歌已经成为了一个常用的动问"to google"，而此句中的名词短语a household verb就是指这个意思。句子的动词obscure原义是"使得变模糊"，这里根据其语义，义译为"掩盖了(谷歌…的社会意义)"。另外so...that固定结构中的形容词influential不宜译成"有影响力的"，把整个结构译为"(没有什么技术)有如此的有影响，以至于…"。这里把它泽为名词"影响力"，再加上整个结构成分"如此之巨大以至于…"。这种译法更符合汉语表达。考查点：联系上下文理解句子成分；固定结构的灵活翻译。
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