你不是一個人在打字。：英語精讀講義

Hey, Vsauce.

嘿，Vsauce。

Michael here,

我是 Michael，

and thank you for clicking on this video.

謝謝你點開這支影片。

But how many times a day do you click? 文法

不過，你一天會點擊多少次？

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

又會在鍵盤上按多少次按鍵？

You might be surprised by the answer.

答案可能會讓你很意外。

And one of the best ways 文法

而想要

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

確切知道自己每天進行了多少次操作，

is to use software like WhatPulse.

最好的方法之一，就是使用 WhatPulse 之類的軟體。

WhatPulse measures how often you

WhatPulse 會記錄你

do things,

進行各種操作的頻率，

keystrokes, mouse clicks.

像是敲擊鍵盤和點擊滑鼠。

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

它甚至會測量游標移動的總距離。

It's really fun stuff to track.

追蹤這些資料真的很有趣。

And of course,

當然，

depending on who you are 文法

根據你是什麼樣的人，

or what day it is or what you do,

以及當天是什麼日子、你在做什麼，

your totals per day will change.

你每天的總數也會有所變化。

But it's been found that on average, 講解

不過研究發現，平均而言，

people who use computers a lot like office workers,

像辦公室職員這樣經常使用電腦的人，

type around 5,000 to 10,000

每天的鍵盤敲擊次數大約是 5,000 到 10,000

keystrokes every day.

次。

And they click a mouse

他們點擊滑鼠的次數

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

約為每天 1,500 到 3,000 次。

Interestingly,

有趣的是，

computer users in the UK typed the most.

英國的電腦使用者打字最多。

Sitting down and using a computer,

坐著使用電腦、

typing,

打字、

scrolling, moving the mouse,

捲動畫面、移動滑鼠，

burns about 20 more calories an hour

每小時會多消耗約 20 卡路里，

than just doing nothing.

相較於什麼都不做。

I mean, if you do nothing,

我的意思是，就算你什麼都不做，

you're still using calories.

還是會消耗熱量。

It takes energy for you to exist. 文法

活著本身就需要能量。

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

你得把體溫維持在適當範圍。

You have to breathe,

你得呼吸，

pump blood.

讓血液循環。

To figure out how many calories 片語動詞

要算出

it takes per day for you to just exist,

你光是活著每天需要多少卡路里，

simply take your weight in pounds

只要把你的體重換算成磅，

and multiply it by 11.

再乘以 11。

If you want to be more specific, 表達脈絡

如果想算得更精確，

take your weight in kilograms

就用你的公斤體重

and multiply it by 0.02. 片語搭配

乘以 0.02。

What you wind up with is the number of calories 講解

最後得到的就是卡路里數，

it takes per minute to keep you existing.

也就是維持生命每分鐘所需的熱量。

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

這就是你每分鐘會消耗的熱量，

doing nothing.

即使什麼都不做。

It's not very much.

這個數字並不大。

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

而使用電腦也不會讓它增加多少。

But don't be discouraged 語氣意圖

但別灰心，

because typing and texting can bind us together. 慣用語

因為打字和傳簡訊能把我們聯繫在一起。

We text and type on keyboards

我們會傳簡訊，也會在鍵盤上打字，

a lot and rapidly.

而且頻率很高、速度也很快。

In fact, every day

事實上，每天

6 billion text messages are sent.

都會傳出 60 億則簡訊。

And there are only 7 billion people on Earth.

而地球上總共也只有 70 億人。

And that's just texting. 表達脈絡

這還只是簡訊。

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

稍後我們再把鍵盤打字也算進去。

But I want to take a quick detour 慣用語

不過，我想先稍微岔開一下，

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

聊聊字母、字元和按鍵本身。

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

它們被按下的次數並不相同。

Some are more common than others.

有些比其他的更常用。

Let's begin visually.

先從視覺上看看吧。

This is a sculpture of a keyboard

這是一座鍵盤雕塑，

where every letter has been raised

上面的每個字母都被升高到

to a height

一定的高度，

that corresponds to its popularity 片語搭配

這個高度對應著它

compared to the other letters.

相較於其他字母的使用頻率。

The letter E is the most common letter typed

字母 E 是輸入頻率最高的字母，

in almost every language that has a letter E.

幾乎所有含有字母 E 的語言都是如此。

But to figure out letter frequencies

不過，要想知道

in texts that you type yourself,

你自己輸入的文字裡，各字母出現的頻率，

use Patrick Wied's heat map.

可以使用 Patrick Wied 的熱度圖。

On this site,

在這個網站上，

you can type a sentence in 片語動詞

你可以輸入一個句子，

and see how frequently the characters are used.

查看各個字元的使用頻率。

For instance,

例如，

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

這個句子至少用到了一次字母表中的每個字母，

but it uses E and O the most.

但 E 和 O 出現得最多。

Roughly speaking, 片語搭配

粗略來說，

and considering different languages, 文法

再考量不同的語言，

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

在每天透過鍵盤敲出或在手機上點出的所有字元中，

about 9% of them are the letter E,

約有 9% 是字母 E，

which is a lot.

這個比例相當高。

But the letter E is not the most common key.

但字母 E 並不是最常用的按鍵。

The space bar is the most commonly pressed key,

空白鍵才是最常被按下的鍵，

nearly twice as popular as the letter E. 文法

使用頻率幾乎是字母 E 的兩倍。

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

既然我們已經知道空白鍵有多常用，

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

就回到簡訊，再把鍵盤輸入也算進來。

If we assume that about 350 million people 文法

如果我們假設大約有 3.5 億人

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

每天在鍵盤上輸入 5,000 到 10,000 個字元，

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

再把這和每天透過簡訊傳送的字元數相加，

we can do a little bit of math

做一點簡單的計算，

and determine that at any given second, 片語搭配

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. 文法

空白鍵都會被按下 600 萬次。

6 million space bars a second.

每秒有 600 萬次空白鍵敲擊。

What a great world, right? 語氣意圖

這個世界真棒，對吧？

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

好吧，換個角度想。

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

因為點按或敲下空白鍵只要十分之一秒，

when you push the space bar,

所以當你按下空白鍵時，

statistically speaking, 片語搭配

從統計上來說，

as many as 600 thousand other people on Earth 文法

地球上可能還有多達 60 萬人

did that at the exact same time that you did.

和你在完全相同的時刻做了同一件事。

So if you ever feel alone,

所以，如果你感到孤單，

just give yourself some space 慣用語

就給自己一點「空間」，

and know that more than half a million people

並記住，還有超過 50 萬人

are doing that exact same thing.

正在做一模一樣的事。

And as always,

一如往常，

thanks for watching.

謝謝收看。