双语：年度比拼之斯威夫特VS碧昂斯(组图)

2014年12月10日10:45 新浪教育收藏本文

Swift VS Beyoncé

　　It’s perhaps no surprise that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift dominated social channels in 2014, but the way they were discussed was unusually similar, according to a dataset gathered from millions of posts on Facebook. What word best describes Beyoncé? (Flawless?) Is Taylor Swift really cool?

　　如果要评出2014年社交圈风头最盛的人物，那无疑是碧昂斯和泰勒·斯威夫特。然而，在统计了脸书上百万的数据之后，我们发现人们关于这两位风云人物的评价并不完全一样的。那么什么样的词最适合形容碧昂斯？(完美无缺？)泰勒·斯威夫特真的很酷？

　　So TIME asked Facebook to take a look at the most popular words used in posts discussing the various Person of the Year candidates, discarding common words like “the” and “when” that have no meaning out of context. Of the top 10 words that show up most for Taylor and Beyoncé, six overlap: “favorite,” “funny,” “amazing,” “cute,” “pretty,” “happy。”

　　因此，在评选年度人物的时，《时代周刊》让脸书调查了人们讨论时使用最多的词语，并排除一些脱离语境后毫无意义的常用词，例如“the”和“when”。在最符合泰勒和碧昂斯的10个词语中，有六个是重合的：“最喜欢的”、“有趣”、“惊艳”、“可爱”、“漂亮”和“愉悦”。

　　For the words that don’t overlap, Taylor is “awesome,” “catchy,” “cool,” and “perfect,” while Beyoncé is “beautiful,” “flawless,” “crazy” and “blue” — though that last one suggests more people are talking about her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, than feeling sad。

　　另外四个词是未曾重复的，泰勒是“赞”、“引人注意”、“酷”和“完美”，碧昂斯是“美丽”、“完美无缺”(与碧昂斯的新歌)、“疯狂”和“蓝色”。关于“蓝色”，这里要做出解释，它并不是指感到悲伤，而是指碧昂斯的女儿Blue Ivy Carter。