Unit 8 的翻译
Unit 8 Have You Got What It Takes
On 4 February, 2004, a Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg, along with a few of his fellow classmates, had an idea to create a social network for Harvard students. Dubbed "TheFacebook", the site was a place where students could communicate and share photos with their friends. Within a month, TheFacebook grew in popularity, prompting its founders to include students from other well-respected universities. It didn't take long for it to become a fully-fledged (成熟的) business that Zuckerberg decided to expand to most of the universities in the US and Canada. It eventually opened the site to any user, rather than just college students. From humble beginnings, Facebook (the company dropped the "The" from its name in 2005) has grown to become the world's No. 1 social network with more than 350 million users worldwide. Now Facebook has become a major cultural touchstone, and the buzz (热度) it captured in the early part of this decade shows no sign of abating (消退).
2004年2月4日，哈佛大学的学生马克•扎克伯格和几位同学萌生了为哈佛的学生建立一个社交网站的想法。在这个名为“脸书（TheFacebook）”的网站上，学生们可以和朋友聊天、分享照片。在一个月内“脸书”就迅速蹿红，于是网站创始人把其他知名大学的学生也都连接到了网内。不久，“脸书”就发展成一个成熟的公司，扎克伯格决定将网站扩展到美国和加拿大的大多数大学。最终，“脸书”不仅向大学生开放，还向所有的人开放。“脸书（Facebook）”（2005年，公司从名字中删除了“The”）从最初的名不见经传变成了全球最大的社交网站，在世界各地拥有3.5亿用户。如今，“脸书”已成为一个重要的文化试金石，它的热度在这个十年的前半段仍然没有消退的迹象。
随着就业市场竞争的日益激烈，中国大学生越来越重视实习。每年都有大量的高年级学生参与实习。实习有助于学生验证自己的职业抉择、了解目标工作的内容和要求、学习技能、锻炼才干。实习是帮助学生找到好工作的有效途径。企业在招聘时会倾向于寻找有相关实习经历的应聘者，有些企业在招聘的时候会优先录取自己的实习生。
With the increasingly fierce competition in the job market, Chinese college students are attaching more and more importance to internships. Every year, a lot of senior students take part in internships which may help them find out whether they have made the right choice of career and have a clear idea of what they are going to do in their target job and what the job demands; it also helps students learn skills and cultivate their abilities. Taking internships is an effective way to secure a good job. In recruiting new staff, companies tend to prefer applicants with relevant internship experience. Some companies will give preference to those who have done an internship in their companies.
