你不是一个人在打字。：英语精读讲义

Hey, Vsauce.

嘿，Vsauce。

Michael here,

我是 Michael，

and thank you for clicking on this video.

感谢你点开这个视频。

But how many times a day do you click? 語法

不过，你一天会点击多少次？

And how many times a day do you type keys on a keyboard?

又会在键盘上按多少次键？

You might be surprised by the answer.

答案可能会让你大吃一惊。

And one of the best ways 語法

而想要

to know exactly how many actions you're taking per day

准确知道自己每天进行了多少次操作，

is to use software like WhatPulse.

最好的方法之一就是使用 WhatPulse 之类的软件。

WhatPulse measures how often you

WhatPulse 会记录你

do things,

进行各种操作的频率，

keystrokes, mouse clicks.

比如敲击键盘和点击鼠标。

It even measures the total distance you've moved your cursor.

它甚至还会测量光标移动的总距离。

It's really fun stuff to track.

追踪这些数据真的很有趣。

And of course,

当然，

depending on who you are 語法

根据你是什么样的人，

or what day it is or what you do,

以及当天是什么日子、你在做什么，

your totals per day will change.

你每天的总数也会有所变化。

But it's been found that on average, 講解

不过研究发现，平均而言，

people who use computers a lot like office workers,

像办公室职员这样经常使用电脑的人，

type around 5,000 to 10,000

每天的键盘敲击次数大约是 5,000 到 10,000

keystrokes every day.

次。

And they click a mouse

他们点击鼠标的次数

about 1,500 to 3,000 times a day.

约为每天 1,500 到 3,000 次。

Interestingly,

有意思的是，

computer users in the UK typed the most.

英国的电脑用户打字最多。

Sitting down and using a computer,

坐着使用电脑，

typing,

打字，

scrolling, moving the mouse,

滚动页面、移动鼠标，

burns about 20 more calories an hour

每小时会多消耗大约 20 卡路里，

than just doing nothing.

相较于什么都不做。

I mean, if you do nothing,

我的意思是，就算你什么都不做，

you're still using calories.

仍然会消耗热量。

It takes energy for you to exist. 語法

活着本身就需要能量。

You have to keep your body temperature where it should be. 語法

你得把体温维持在适当水平。

You have to breathe,

你得呼吸，

pump blood.

让心脏泵血。

To figure out how many calories 短語動詞

要算出

it takes per day for you to just exist,

你仅仅为了活着每天需要多少卡路里，

simply take your weight in pounds

只要把你的体重换算成磅，

and multiply it by 11.

再乘以 11。

If you want to be more specific, 表達脈絡

如果你想算得更精确，

take your weight in kilograms

就用你的公斤体重

and multiply it by 0.02. 短語搭配

乘以 0.02。

What you wind up with is the number of calories 講解

最后得到的就是卡路里数，

it takes per minute to keep you existing.

也就是维持生命每分钟所需的热量。

That's the number of calories that you burn every minute

这就是你每分钟会消耗的热量，

doing nothing.

即使什么都不做。

It's not very much.

这个数并不大。

And using a computer doesn't raise it that much higher.

而使用电脑也不会让它增加多少。

But don't be discouraged 語氣意圖

但别灰心，

because typing and texting can bind us together. 習語

因为打字和发短信能把我们联系在一起。

We text and type on keyboards

我们会发短信，也会在键盘上打字，

a lot and rapidly.

而且频率很高、速度也很快。

In fact, every day

事实上，每天

6 billion text messages are sent.

都会发出 60 亿条短信。

And there are only 7 billion people on Earth.

而地球上总共也只有 70 亿人。

And that's just texting. 表達脈絡

这还只是短信。

We'll add keyboard typing in a little bit later.

稍后我们再把键盘打字也算进去。

But I want to take a quick detour 習語

不过我想先稍微岔开一下，

and talk about the letters and the characters and the keys themselves. 用詞

聊聊字母、字符和按键本身。

They're not all pressed the same number of times. 語法

它们被按下的次数并不相同。

Some are more common than others.

有些比另一些更常用。

Let's begin visually.

先从视觉上看看吧。

This is a sculpture of a keyboard

这是一座键盘雕塑，

where every letter has been raised

上面的每个字母都被抬高到

to a height

一定的高度，

that corresponds to its popularity 短語搭配

这个高度对应着它

compared to the other letters.

相对于其他字母的使用频率。

The letter E is the most common letter typed

字母 E 是输入频率最高的字母，

in almost every language that has a letter E.

几乎所有含有字母 E 的语言都是如此。

But to figure out letter frequencies

不过，要想知道

in texts that you type yourself,

你自己输入的文本里各字母出现的频率，

use Patrick Wied's heat map.

可以使用 Patrick Wied 的热力图。

On this site,

在这个网站上，

you can type a sentence in 短語動詞

你可以输入一个句子，

and see how frequently the characters are used.

查看各个字符的使用频率。

For instance,

例如，

this sentence contains every letter in the alphabet at least once,

这个句子至少用到了一次字母表中的每个字母，

but it uses E and O the most.

但 E 和 O 出现得最多。

Roughly speaking, 短語搭配

粗略来说，

and considering different languages, 語法

再考虑到不同语言，

of all the characters typed or tapped on a phone every day,

在每天通过键盘敲出或在手机上点出的所有字符中，

about 9% of them are the letter E,

约有 9% 是字母 E，

which is a lot.

这个比例相当高。

But the letter E is not the most common key.

但字母 E 并不是最常用的按键。

The space bar is the most commonly pressed key,

空格键才是最常被按下的键，

nearly twice as popular as the letter E. 語法

使用频率几乎是字母 E 的两倍。

Now that we know about the space bar's popularity, 語法

既然我们已经知道空格键有多常用，

let's return to texting and add in keyboard typing. 講解

就回到短信，再把键盘输入也算进来。

If we assume that about 350 million people 語法

如果我们假设大约有 3.5 亿人

are typing 5 to 10,000 characters a day on keyboards

每天在键盘上输入 5,000 到 10,000 个字符，

and add that to the number of characters being texted every day,

再把这与每天通过短信发送的字符数相加，

we can do a little bit of math

做一点简单的计算，

and determine that at any given second, 短語搭配

就能得出，在任何一秒，

here on Earth,

在地球上，

the space bar is being pressed 6 million times. 語法

空格键都会被按下 600 万次。

6 million space bars a second.

每秒有 600 万次空格键敲击。

What a great world, right? 語氣意圖

这个世界真棒，对吧？

Well, let's think of it this way. 表達脈絡

好吧，换个角度想。

Because it only takes a tenth of a second to tap or type a space bar, 語法

因为点按或敲下空格键只需要十分之一秒，

when you push the space bar,

所以当你按下空格键时，

statistically speaking, 短語搭配

从统计上看，

as many as 600 thousand other people on Earth 語法

地球上可能还有多达 60 万人

did that at the exact same time that you did.

和你在完全相同的时刻做了同一件事。

So if you ever feel alone,

所以，如果你感到孤单，

just give yourself some space 習語

就给自己一点“空间”，

and know that more than half a million people

并记住，还有超过 50 万人

are doing that exact same thing.

正在做一模一样的事。

And as always,

一如既往，

thanks for watching.

感谢观看。