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Those were his exact words, a blithe excuse for his mistaken assertion that a protester at one of his rallies had ties to Islamic extremists. He’d seen a video somewhere. He’d chosen to take it at face value. His intelligence wasn’t and isn’t vetted but viral — and conveniently suited to his argument and needs. With a creative or credulous enough Google search, a self-serving“truth” can always be found, along with a passel of supposed experts to vouch for it and a clique of fellow disciples.

这其实就是他的原话，为错误地断言自己竞选集会中的一名抗议者与伊斯兰主义极端分子有关联而勉强找的借口。他在哪里看到过一段视频，他选择信以为真。他的情报过去和现在都没有进行过核实，却飞速流传开来——完美契合了他的观点和需求。用谷歌来一番足够有创意的搜索，或者有足够的意愿去相信搜索结果，总能找到符合自身要求的“真相”，外加一大批所谓的专家为其打包票，以及一群同样的追随者。

【经典句式】

exact准确的

excuse借口

mistaken错误的

assertion断言

protester抗议者

rally集会

have ties to …与……有关联

Islamic伊斯兰主义的

extremist极端分子

take… at face value相信表面看到的事物

intelligence情报;智慧

vet审查;兽医

viral病毒式传播的;病毒的

conveniently方便地

suited to … 适合……的

credulous轻信的

self-serving自我服务的;符合自身要求的

along with 和……一起

supposed理应的

vouch for … 替……担保

fellow同伴;同事

【犀利观点】批判性思维 & 搜索引擎：

He’d seen a video somewhere. He’d chosen to take it at face value. His intelligence wasn’t and isn’t vetted but viral — and conveniently suited to his argument and needs.

【犀利观点】批判性思维 & 搜索引擎：

With a creative or credulous enough Google search, a self-serving“truth” can always be found, along with a passel of supposed experts to vouch for it and a clique of fellow disciples.

Carnival barkers, conspiracy theories, willful bias and nasty partisanship aren’t anything new, and they haven’t reached unprecedented heights today. But what’s remarkable and sort of heartbreaking is the way they’re fed by what should be strides in our ability to educate ourselves. The proliferation of cable television networks and growth of the Internet promised to expand our worlds, not shrink them. Instead they’ve enhanced the speed and thoroughness with which we retreat into enclaves of the like-minded.

疯狂的咆哮者、阴谋理论、有意的歧视和严重的党派偏见，这些都不是什么新鲜事物，它们也还没有达到前所未有的程度。但它们滋长的方式比较引人注目，也有些让人难以接受，是本该让我们在自我教育上获得巨大进步的东西助长了它们。有线电视台的激增和互联网的快速发展本该扩展，而非缩小我们的视野。但它们反倒让我们更快和更彻底地陷入党同伐异的小圈子。

【经典句式】

conspiracy阴谋

willful有意的

bias偏见

nasty糟糕的

stride迈步;巨大进步

proliferation激增

cable television networks 有线电视台

promise to do sth 许诺……

shrink缩小

enhance强化

thoroughness彻底

retreat into … 退到……

the like-minded志趣相投者

【大作文万用句式】

… aren’t anything new.……由来已久。

…has reached unprecedented heights today.……达到了前所未有的程度。

What’s remarkable and sort of heartbreaking is …引人注目同时有些让人难以接受的是……

strides in our ability to … 在……的能力上的巨大进步

【犀利观点】互联网发展的弊端——抱团：全段

…“Technology makes it much easier for us to connect to people who share some single common interest,” said Marc Dunkelman, adding that it also makes it easier for us to avoid “face-to-face interactions with diverse ideas.” He touched on this in an incisive 2014 book, “The Vanishing Neighbor,” which belongs with Haidt’s work and with “Bowling Alone,” “Coming Apart” and “The Fractured Republic” in the literature of modern American fragmentation,a booming genre all its own.

“技术进步让我们更容易和那些与自己有单一共同兴趣点的人产生连接，”马克·邓克尔曼(Marc Dunkelman)说道。他还表示，技术也让我们更容易避开“不同的观念”，避免“直接与之相互影响”。他在自己2014年那本深刻透彻的著作《消失的邻居》(The Vanishing Neighbor)中谈到了这个问题。这本著作和海特的《正义之心》，以及《独自打保龄》(Bowling Alone)、《分离》(Coming Apart)和《分裂的共和国》(The Fractured Republic)等都属于描绘现代美国人分化状况的著作，而这也是一个正在蓬勃发展的作品类型。

【经典句式】

touch on浅谈;提及

incisive深刻的;透彻的

vanish消失

fracture破碎

fragmentation分化;碎片化

booming正在蓬勃发展的

genre类型

【犀利观点】互联网发展的好处——志同道合：

Technology makes it much easier for us to connect to people who share some single common interest.

【犀利观点】互联网发展的弊端——抱团：

It also makes it easier for us to avoid face-to-face interactions with diverse ideas.

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