People back then imagined wireless communication (Dick Tracy, Star Trek), but they never imagined you could funnel an entire world’s worth of information through a pocket-sized device.

她那个年代的人们想象过无线通讯（比如漫画《至尊神探》和电视剧《星际旅行》中所描述的），但是他们想象不到整个世界的信息都可以被装进一个口袋大小的设备里。

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And the page where the visitor enters credit card information is an example of one of the funnel steps.

和网页访客进入信用卡信息就是一个例子之一的程序步骤。

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That is a good funnel of information to that company.

那是那家公司的一个很好的信息渠道。

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The latest wave of journalist-hazing and distribution-minding may have ulterior political and pecuniary aims--to control outliers and funnel information through state-owned (but profit-minded) channels like Xinhua--but this could backfire.

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