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第一篇:《双语资讯：读脑技术让电脑读懂你的心》
Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off. A single wink might tell the glasses to take a picture.
上周，探查谷歌眼镜程序源码的工程师们发现了一些隐藏的功能，人们或许不用吭一声，就能操作可穿戴式计算机。比如，用户可以用点头的方式开启或关闭眼镜。用眨眼示意的方式也许能给眼镜下令，让其拍照。
But don't expect these gestures to be necessary for long. Soon, we might interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds. In a couple of years, we could be turning on the lights at home just by thinking about it, or sending an e-mail from our smartphone without even pulling the device from our pocket. Farther into the future, your robot assistant will appear by your side with a glass of lemonade simply because it knows you are thirsty.
但是，不要以为这些示意动作的必要性会长久。很快，我们就可能用思维来操作智能手机和计算机。再过两三年，我们可能只要一想开灯，家里的灯就开了，或者不用从口袋里掏出智能手机，就把电子邮件发出去了。再以后，你的机器人助手会把一杯柠檬水端到你身边，因为它知道你渴了。
Researchers in Samsung's Emerging Technology Lab are testing tablets that can be controlled by your brain, using a cap that resembles a ski hat studded with monitoring electrodes, the MIT Technology Review, the science and technology journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported this month.
麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)的科技杂志《MIT技术评论》(MIT Technology Review)本月报道称，三星新兴技术实验室(Samsung's Emerging Technology Lab)的研究人员正在测试能用人脑控制的平板计算机，实现的方法是让人带上一顶像滑雪帽那样的、布满了监控电极的帽子。
The technology, often called a brain computer interface, was conceived to enable people with paralysis and other disabilities to interact with computers or control robotic arms, all by simply thinking about such actions. Before long, these technologies could well be in consumer electronics, too.
这种通常被称为脑机接口的技术，原来的构想是为了让瘫痪或有其他残疾的人，只需要用脑子想一些动作，就能操作计算机、或控制机械臂。过不了多久，这类技术也可能会被用到大众化的电子产品上。
Some crude brain-reading products already exist, letting people play easy games or move a mouse around a screen. NeuroSky, a company based in San Jose, Calif., recently released a Bluetooth-enabled headset that can monitor slight changes in brain waves and allow people to play concentration-based games on computers and smartphones. These include a zombie-chasing game, archery and a game where you dodge bullets — all these apps use your mind as the joystick. Another company, Emotiv, sells a headset that looks like a large alien hand and can read brain waves associated with thoughts, feelings and expressions. The device can be used to play
Tetris-like games or search through Flickr photos by thinking about an emotion the person is feeling — like happy, or excited — rather than searching by keywords. Muse, a lightweight, wireless headband, can engage with an app that "exercises the brain" by forcing people to concentrate on aspects of a screen, almost like taking your mind to the gym.
市场上已经有一些简单的读取脑信号的产品，人们能用它们来玩简单游戏、或者移动屏幕上的鼠标。最近，总部在加利福尼亚州圣何塞的神念科技(NeuroSky)推出了一款具有蓝牙通讯能力的耳机，该耳机能通过监测脑电波的细微变化，让人们在计算机和智能手机上玩基于注意力的游戏，包括追僵尸的游戏、射箭，以及躲子弹的游戏，这些游戏软件都用你的大脑作为操纵杆。另一家公司Emotiv正在上市一款看上去像一只巨大的外星人手的耳机，它能读取与思维、感觉和表情相关的脑电波。该设备能被用来玩像俄罗斯方块这样的游戏，或者通过想一个自己正在感受的情感——比如开心或兴奋——而不是通过关键词，在Flickr照片里搜索有关图片。而名为Muse的轻便无线头箍，能与一个“锻炼大脑”的应用软件互动，它会强迫人们将注意力集中于屏幕上的某些方面，就像是带你的大脑去健身房。{读懂你的心}.
Car manufacturers are exploring technologies packed into the back of the seat that detect when people fall asleep while driving and rattle the steering wheel to awaken them.
汽车制造商正在研发能够装入座位靠背的技术，这种技术能监测到人在开车时睡着，并通过震动方向盘来叫醒他们。
But the products commercially available today will soon look archaic. "The current brain technologies are like trying to listen to a conversation in a football stadium from a blimp," said John Donoghue, a neuroscientist and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. "To really be able to understand what is going on with the brain today you need to surgically implant an array of sensors into the brain." In other words, to gain access to the brain, for now you still need a chip in your head. 然而，现在市场上已有的这类产品很快将会过时。布朗大学脑科学研究所(Brown
Institute for Brain Science)所长、神经科学家约翰·多诺霍(John Donoghue)说，“如今的脑技术，就像试图从一架软式飞艇上听下面足球场中的谈话。用如今的技术，要想真正了解大脑里的活动，你需要用手术在大脑中植入一个传感器阵列。”换句话说，至少在现在，想获得大脑信息，你仍需在大脑中装个芯片。
Although we won't be flying planes with our minds anytime soon, surfing the Web on our smartphones might be closer.
尽管我们不会很快就能靠思维来驾驶飞机，但靠思维用智能手机上网可能已为时不远。 Dr. Donoghue of Brown said one of the current techniques used to read people's brains is called P300, in which a computer can determine which letter of the alphabet someone is thinking about based on the area of the brain that is activated when she sees a screen full of letters. But even when advances in brain-reading technologies{读懂你的心}.
speed up, there will be new challenges, as scientists will have to determine if the person wants to search the Web for something in particular, or if he is just thinking about a random topic.
布朗大学的多诺霍称，目前用来读人脑的技术之一，是被称为P300的方法，当一个人看到满屏幕的字母时，计算机可根据被激活的脑部区域来识别这个人在想哪个字母。但是，就算读脑技术发展的速度加快了，科学家仍会面临新的挑战，比如他们需确定人们是在想上网络搜索某个特定的东西呢，还是在想着某个随意的话题。{读懂你的心}.
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第二篇:《网络能读懂你的心？Read Your Mind by the Internet》
网络能读懂你的心？Read Your Mind by the Internet 发表于：
2013-11-28
如今，我们处在一个“E时代”， 网络对我们生活的影响越来越大，我们也越来越离不开它。然而，当我们在用电脑或者手机上网时，你知道有人正在偷偷收集我们的个人信息么？如果有人告诉你，我们这些信息将会被廉价出售给广告商和销售商，你是否会感到吃惊呢？另外，如果还有人偷偷地告诉你，通过这样的方法，网络就能很容易读懂我们的心，你是否会感到不可思议呢？【编者语】
According to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal, all it takes is a tiny file in a computer-a single code consisting of a long series of numbers and letters-to record the computer user's age, gender, location, favorite movies and hobbies.
《华尔街日报》一项调查显示，电脑中一个特别小的文件–一个由一系列数字和字母组成的简单代码，就可以记录电脑使用者的年龄、性别、地址、喜欢的电影和爱好。
The newspaper reports that Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company, uses sophisticated software called a "beacon" to capture what people are typing on a website.
报道称，Lotame Solutions Inc（一家纽约公司）使用一种名为"beacon"的高科技软件来捕捉人们在网站上输入的文字。
Lotame packages that data into profiles about individuals, only without their names, and sells the profiles to companies seeking customers. Batches of such data may be sold for a few dollars. 接着，Lotame将很多这样的个人信息打包出售给那些正在寻找潜在消费者的公司，出售的个人信息不包括用户的姓名。几批这样的数据可能卖到几美元。
The Wall Street Journal probe discovered that spying on Internet users is one of the fastest-growing businesses on the World Wide Web.
《华尔街日报》的调查发现，目前，监视互联网用户已经成为万维网上成长最快的生意之一。
Today, tracking consumers is far more intrusive than the public realizes. For example, the top 50 websites in the US on average installed 64 pieces of tracking technology onto the computers of visitors, usually with no warning.
现如今，追踪技术的植入程度已经远超社会大众的想象。例如，全美最大的50家网站平均在访问者的电脑上安装了64种追踪技术，而且通常都没有任何警告。
The "cookie"-a tiny text file put on your PC by websites or marketing firms which might be used to remember your preferences for one site, or to track you across many sites-is already old news.
There are new and more complex tools such as "beacons" which scan in real time what people are doing on a webpage. These beacons instantly assess the Internet user's location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions.
过去，网站或营销公司会在你的电脑上安装一个小文本（cookie），用来记录你对一个网站的喜好，或者跟踪你访问各个网站的情况。但如今，像beacon这种更新颖、更复杂的软件可以在人们浏览网页时进行实时扫描，然后立即对用户的地址、收入、购物兴趣，甚至医疗条件等因素进行评估。
Tracking files get onto websites and are downloaded to a computer, in several ways. Often, companies simply pay sites to distribute their tracking files. But tracking companies sometimes hide their files within free software offered to websites, or hide them within other tracking files or ads. When this happens, websites aren't always aware that they're installing the files on visitors' computers.
网站安装、下载追踪文件的方式多种多样。通常，公司付费给网站来发布他们的追踪文件。但是，追踪公司偶尔也会将文件隐藏在网站上的免费软件或其他追踪文件或广告中。这种情况下，网站本身也不清楚他们在用户电脑上安装了追踪文件。{读懂你的心}.
Tracking companies are often staffed by math gurus with expertise in quantitative analysis.
Some use probability algorithms to try to pair what they know about a person's online behavior with data from offline sources about household income, geography and education, among other things.
追踪公司的员工多为精通定量分析的数学专家。他们通过使用几率算法，根据了解到的用户的线上行为来推算线下资料，比如家庭收入、所在地和教育程度等。
Personal data gathered from such tracking is now bought and sold on stock market-like exchanges.
通过此种追踪手段收集来的个人信息会在交易所等证券市场进行买卖交易。{读懂你的心}.
The new technology is now exerting a profound impact on the Internet industry, especially on how retailers locate and sell to their customers. Millions of Internet users around the world also face unprecedented threats. Private, sensitive, personal and business information is being
gathered and sold without their knowledge. 这项新技术已经对时下的互联网行业产生了巨大影响，尤其是对零售商寻找潜在用户、销售商品而言更是如此。与此同时，这对世界各地数百万的互联网用户们来说也是个前所未有的威胁。他们的私人、敏感甚至商业信息都在不知不觉中被收集和出售。
Companies insist the information they gather is anonymous and the data is used harmlessly. But the technology has grown so powerful and evasive that even some of the biggest websites in the US don't know that they were installing intrusive files on visitors' computers. These include MSN.com and Yahoo.com.
对此，追踪公司表示，他们是以匿名的方式收集此类信息，而且这些信息的使用对用户无害。但是，追踪技术成长得如此强大，使用如此隐秘，就连美国最大的一些网站也不知道自己在用户电脑上安装了入侵文件。这其中就包括MSN网 和 Yahoo网。
Next time you visit a webpage and find an ad banner advertising something you've been
planning to buy, don`t be amazed that your computer can read your mind.
所以，下次浏览网页的时候如果发现有广告向你推荐商品，而这些商品恰恰是你最近想买的东西时，千万别惊叹什么“电脑居然能读懂我的心”啦。
原文来自 必克英语/magazine/guide_text.jsp?id=52930972
第三篇:《从你的眼神里读懂你的心》
从你的眼神里读懂你的心
尹芳
云舒云卷，花开花落，多少匆匆时光里的期；多少为了我而绽放的目光；日出日落，春去春来，多少个令人舒心的眼神，又黑又亮，能否让我透过你的眼神，来读懂你的心。 你的眼神，带着疲倦，带着欣慰，带着疼爱，捧着我带回家的厚厚的奖品。妈妈，你的眼睛闪闪的亮着，我透过你赞许的眼神，知道你心里很高兴，很欣慰，你总是教育我“学习，学习比什么都好，你就是妈妈唯一的希望。”在说这话的时候，你的眼睛总是期盼着的，我却总是觉得羞愧万分，在心里默默发誓，从今以后，妈妈的眼神就是我前进的动力。 每当我闯祸回家，带着忐忑不安的心情走到妈妈面前，妈妈却总是一个淡淡的眼神，静静的望着我，从那深邃的眼眸里，我读出了无奈，读出了沧桑，我宁愿妈妈打我，骂我。在这样的眼神下，我愧疚万分，我心如刀割，妈妈为了我热气吞声，辛苦的养育着我，却从来没有说过一句苦，诉过一句累，我知道，这全都是为了我。
爸爸妈妈关系不太好，我很了解，很清楚，爸爸妈妈吵架时，我都在旁边静静的站着，泪水汹涌着，妈妈也是，泪眼婆娑下，我从妈妈的眼神里读出了隐忍，读出了悲痛，都是为了我，妈妈才将自己的悲伤压在心底，我知道妈妈对我有着深深的愧疚，她知道，寄人篱下的我们，没有反驳的权力；她知道，我心中的感受，她只想连同那缺失的父爱一并给我，在这个世界上，我不想看到的就是妈妈的眼泪。
十年以后，妈妈的眼神里总是带着悲伤，那深深的悲伤里，其实又隐藏着几多深沉而又伟大的母爱，妈妈想给我一个完整的家，才会为了我而受苦，那曾经清亮的眼眸里，又减了几许明亮的色彩。
现在我很满足了，因为在今天的我成长着，妈妈的眼神里又增添的几抹希望的光点，从妈妈的希望里，我读出了妈妈发自内心的笑意。
妈妈的眼神让我成长，给我力量，不管是沧桑的、疲惫的、悲伤的、欣慰的还是充满希望的，它们每一个都包含着妈妈对我深深的疼与爱，以后，我只想要那个闪着光的眼神，镶嵌在妈妈黑亮的眸子里，永不磨灭。
妈妈，我从你的眼神里读懂了你的心。女儿想轻轻的告诉你，请你放心，女儿绝对会努力，带着你的希望飞翔；绝对会永远记得你每一个目光；绝对会让它成为我前进的不懈追求与力量。