Face-off
① On April 11th Mark Zuckerberg testified before testy politicians in Washington about the firm's latest privacy controversy, first to a joint hearing of two Senate committees that lasted around four hours, and then again on April 12th to a House of Representatives committee.
② While in the long term some sort of regulation is inevitable, it seems less likely in the near term.
③ Laws take years and sometimes decades to come into effect for burgeoning industries.
④ For Facebook to change in any meaningful way, Congress will have to change too.
⑤ One of the most stunning revelations of the highly choreographed hearings was not anything Mr Zuckerberg said, but how little America's politicians seemed to know about Facebook and the way the world of digital communications operates.
⑥ There is little hope for smart regulation that will protect users' privacy until the people who would draft laws understand the ecosystem they need to tame.
⑦ The Cambridge Analytica scandal gave Mr Zuckerberg a crash course in political diplomacy, but the education of politicians about the opaque, labyrinthine world of digital data is only just beginning.
▍生詞好句
face-off: n. 對決；競爭
testify /?t?st?f??/: vi.（出庭）作證 vt. 證實
A testify to B: A 作為證據(jù)證實了 B
testy /?t?sti/: adj. 怒氣沖沖的；暴躁易怒的
hearing /?h??r??/: n. 聽證會
senate /?s?n?t/: n. 參議院
House of Representatives: 眾議院
burgeoning /?b??d?(?)n??/: adj. 飛速發(fā)展的
burgeon /?b??d?(?)n/: vi. 飛速發(fā)展
stunning /?st?n??/: adj. 令人震驚的
revelation /r?v??le??(?)n/: n. 被揭露的真相、內(nèi)情
reveal /r??vi?l/: vt. 泄露；披露
revealing /r??vi?l??/: adj. 發(fā)人深思的
choreograph /?k?r??ɡrɑ?f/: vt. 策劃；安排
draft /drɑ?ft/: vt. 起草
ecosystem /?i?k??s?st?m/: n. 生態(tài)系統(tǒng)
tame /te?m/: vt. 馴化；監(jiān)管控制 adj. 溫順的；馴服的
crash course: 強化速成課
diplomacy /d??pl??m?si/: n. 處理人際關(guān)系的手腕、手段；外交
opaque /?(?)?pe?k/: adj. 不透明的；混沌的
labyrinthine /?l?b??r?nθa?n/: adj. 錯綜復(fù)雜的
▍補充例句
· testify
He testified that five people were harassed by the boss.
The empty shops in the street testify to the depth of the recession.
