Today, our number of weak-tie acquaintances has exploded due to the Internet—to the phenomenon online social networking.

如今，由于互联网带来的线上社交网络的盛行，我们建立的“弱关系”的数量大幅增加。

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A recent study found that the number of Americans with high-speed Internet at home today actually fell during the last two years, and 15% of people now consider themselves to be "cord-cutters".

最近一项研究发现，过去两年中，装有家用高速网络的美国人数量实际上有所下降，有15%的人认为自己是“掐线者”。

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In a similar sense, the ever increasing number of online conversations may be disrupted by misinterpretations and anxiety that are produced by insuperable delays in the Internet connection.

同样地，越来越多的在线对话可能会被互联网连接上无法克服的延迟问题所造成的误解和焦虑所打断。

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It will do that,he says, by reducing the cost of computers and increasing the number of people who search the Internet.

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So that happened to a number of American Internet companies.

一些美国互联网公司碰到过这样的情况。

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Internet resources included online book orders and the number of visits to a city's online newspaper.

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The number of Internet enabled phones has already surpassed the number of Internet enabled computers, and their estimates also include connectivity for things not commonly thought of as internet-connected like cars and televisions.

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The new survey, which was conducted in the third quarter of this year, shows that the number of Internet users has nearly tripled since the first survey, which estimated the number of Internet users to be 34 million.

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According to the Arizona Software and Internet Association, the number of Internet jobs in the region is growing 13% a year.

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