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①There has never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook. ②Some 2.3bn people, 30% of the world’s population, engage with the network each month. ③Economists reckon it may yield trillions of dollars’ worth of value for its users. ④But Facebook is also blamed for all sorts of social horrors: from addiction and bullying to the erosion of fact-based political discourse and the enabling of genocide. ⑤New research—and there is more all the time—suggests such accusations are not entirely without merit. ⑥It may be time to consider what life without Facebook would be like.
①There has never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook.
从没有什么能像Facebook一样把如此多的各类人群聚集在一起。
①句以最高级的结构体现出Facebook用户之多。这句话含有一个很重要的句型：
There is no such A as B.
没有如B这样的A。
举两个例子：
- There‘s no such thing as magic.
魔法这类东西是不存在的。- There is no such thing as a free lunch.
世上没有免费午餐之类的好事儿。agglomeration [?gl?m?‘re??(?)n] 是这句话的重点单词，它在柯林斯中的解释是：An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement. 很多不同的东西堆积在一起，杂乱的聚集。比如：
- The towns are on the way to becoming agglomerations of desperately poor people.
这些城市正逐渐变为极度贫穷之人的聚居地。文中 an agglomeration of humanity 的意思就是：各类人群的聚集地。
我们把这两部分整合一下：
There has never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook.
没有Facebook这样能把如此多的各类人群聚集到一起的东西。
说得通顺一点，就是：从没有什么能像Facebook一样把如此多的各类人群聚集在一起。
②Some 2.3bn people, 30% of the world’s population, engage with the network each month.
每月约有23亿人（占全球人口的30%）使用这个网络。
②句以列举数字的方式来体现Facebook的用户量之大，呼应了①句句子开头便列举了两组数据：2.3bn people 和 30% of the world‘s population，23亿人口，全球人口的30%，由此来呼应 "There has never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook".
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原文地址：https://www.cnblogs.com/cznczai/p/11235753.html
