单词 | 决策者 |
释义 | 〔input〕The nouninput has been used as a technical term for about a century in fields such as physics and electrical engineering, but its recent popularity grows out of its use in computer science,where it refers to data or signals entered into a system for processing or transmission.In general discourseinput is now widely used to refer to the transmission of information and opinion, as inThe report questioned whether a President thus shielded had access to a sufficiently varied input to have a realistic picture of the nation or The nominee herself had no input on housing policy. In this last sentence the meaning of the term is uncertain:it may mean either that the nominee provided no opinions to the policymakersor that she received no information about housing policy.This vagueness in the nontechnical use ofinput may be one reason that some critics have objected to it (including, in an earlier survey, a majority of the Usage Panel). Though the usage is well established,care should be taken not to use the word merely as a way of pretending to a scientific precision unwarranted by the facts of the case.名词input 作为一个专业名词在象物理和电子工程领域已经被用了大约一个世纪, 但是它在计算机科学上的最新流行超出了原来的用法,在计算机科学上它指输入系统进行运行或传送的信息和信号。总的来说,input 广泛地用来指信息和观点的传送, 就象在报告怀疑这样保护起来的总统是否能获得接近足够多样信息的机会,从而有一幅这个国家的现实图景 或 被提名人自己没有关于房产政策的任何信息 。 在后一句中单词的定义是不确定的:它既可以指被提名人未向决策者提供任何建议,也可以指她未收到任何有关房产政策的信息。这种模糊在input 的非专业用法中有可能是一些批评家反对它(在一个早期调查中,其中包括大部分用法专题小组成员)的一个原因。 尽管这种用法已完全确立,用这个词时也应谨慎,不能把这个词仅仅用来伪装一种科学的精确性,而在这样的情况下,如此的精确性是不被事实所证明的 |
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