职场双语:美国最新职业:博客作者 实用英语考试
文章作者 100test 发表时间 2009:04:30 06:06:41
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当今美国,靠写博客为生的人几乎跟律师一样多。通过将自己的观点贴在网上来获得主要收入的美国人已经多过电脑程序员或是消防队员了。
Paid bloggers fit just about every definition of a microtrend: Their ranks have grown dramatically over the years, blogging is an important social and cultural movement that people care passionately about, and the number of people doing it for at least some income is approaching 1% of American adults.
收费博客作者几乎符合“微趋势”的所有定义:过去几年中,他们的人数迅猛增长;写博客已经成了一种重大的社会文化运动,人们对之热情高涨;而靠写博客赚钱的人占美国成年人口的比例已接近1%。
The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That’s almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click -- whether on their site or someone else’s. And that’s nearly half a million of whom it can be said, as Bob Dylan did of Hurricane Carter: ’It’s my work he’d say, I do it for pay.’