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双语:川普推文都是自己发的?数据对你说“呵呵”
2016-08-16 16:47
来源:QUARTZ
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Donald Trump’s Twitter account is central to his presidential campaign. It is the original platform where he hurled insults and rallied his supporters, and now, thanks to a new data analysis, we can seean internal battle over Trump’s message playing out there.
川普的推特账号是他竞选活动的中心。这是他发动人身攻击并召集支持者的策源地。而现在,得益于一项新的数据分析,我们得以知道原来川普的推文是有猫腻的。
Is central to等于is the center of,不过用前者显得更高端一点。
这里的an internal battle playing out there的字面意思是“有一个内部斗争正在进行”,它在这是想表达:川普的推文并不完全是一回事,其中是有不同的。
It’s become a parlor game to guess if Trump is writing tweets or if his staff has taken over. But assembling Donald Trump word salad is not easy—a commonly cited tell: Trump tweets “Sad!” and his staff tweets “Sad.”
猜测川普的推文到底是他自己发的还是员工代笔已经成了茶余饭后的娱乐节目了。不过,想搞定川普的这碗词汇沙拉可并不容易,有一条流行的传言说:川普会发“真是悲哀啊!”,而他的员工只会发“悲哀啊”。
It’s在这里是it has的简写,而非it is的简写,这其实可以从后面跟的become推断出来。这种用法现在很普遍了,不过许多年长者并不赞同这种用法。
Parlor game的意思是“室内游戏”。西方社会中,到了晚上或节假日,家人朋友有时会聚在客厅里一起玩些诸如“你演我猜”的游戏,这样的活动被称为parlor game。
While most politicians don’t operate their own feeds, or else they “sign” their tweets when they do, Trump claims to manage his Twitter alone—except when he is blaming “interns” for embarrassingretweets.
虽然大多数政客并不自己运营在文字媒体上向公众发布的言辞,也有些人直接“批复”自己的推文,但川普声称自己的推特完全是自己管理的——除了当他需要将那些让人尴尬的转发推到“实习生们”身上的时候。
“那个一不小心转发的年轻实习生向大家道歉。”
To find out who’s really tweeting what, data scientist David Robinson decided to test out one popularhypothesis—that Trump’s tweets come from an Android device (he’s known to use a Samsung Galaxy), while staff tweets come from iPhones.
为了弄清楚到底是谁发了什么,数据科学家David Robinson决定来验证一个流行的假设:川普自己的推文是用安卓机发的(众所周知,他的手机是三星Galaxy),而员工发的则出自苹果机。
Timing
发推时机
Old-school retweets
老式的转发
转自@WhiteGenocideTM:
“@realDonaldTrump可怜的杰布·布什。我可以发誓我那天在川普塔外面看到他了!”
Robinson searched for tweets starting with quotations, and found that almost all of the “quoted” retweets came from the Android phone—only six came from an iPhone.