Spam 網路垃圾郵件 The unwanted email 沒人想要的電子郵件
When you want to read your email, what do you get more often than not1? Spam. Sometimes over 80% of the email we get is spam. It can be advertisements2, chain letters3, or just plain4 useless pictures. It takes so much time to erase spam that many people give up on5 reading their email altogether.當你想要看電子郵件的時候，看到的往往是什麼？垃圾郵件。有時我們收到的電子郵件中超過八成都是垃圾郵件。當中可能有廣告、連鎖信，或就只是些毫無用處的圖片。清除垃圾郵件花去太多時間，所以許多人乾脆完全不看電子郵件。
What is spam? Spam is unwanted email sent to us by unknown people. These unwanted email messages are an annoyance6 when we're using the Internet. They slow down our computers and waste useful memory space. A man arrested7 in New York last year had sent out 857,500,000 spam messages in one year!
什麼是垃圾郵件？垃圾郵件是由不知名人士寄來的無用信件。這些無用的電子郵件訊息是我們上網時的一大厭事。它們會讓電腦變慢，浪費掉有用的記憶體空間。去年有位在紐約被逮捕的男子，曾在一年內寄出八億五千七百五十萬件垃圾訊息！
Some people now think spam is a serious threat8 to the continued existence9 of the Internet. Laws have been passed that will make sending out spam a crime.10 Spamming11 might be turned into12 a federal crime in the US. Under proposed federal13 laws, if you send spam, you might have to spend time in jail14 or pay fines15 of up to16 $1.5 million.
如今有人認為垃圾郵件是網路存在的一大威脅。已經通過法令，寄送垃圾郵件將是項罪行。在美國，散佈垃圾郵件可能成為聯邦級罪行。根據已提出的聯邦法令，寄送垃圾郵件，可能得入獄服刑或是付出最高一百五十萬美元的罰金。
People tend to17 be better at spotting18 spam than computers. Therefore, special government units19 sit in front of computers day after day, hunting spam. If they spot a user sending 50 emails to 3,000 recipients,20 for example, they cut the person off from the Internet. Spammers21 sometimes change the subject lines22 on their emails to escape automatic23 detection.24 But they must watch out.25 The world is beginning to see through26 their tricks, and won't put up with27 spam much longer.
人比電腦更善於發覺垃圾郵件。因此，政府有特殊單位日復一日坐在電腦前，追捕垃圾郵件。好比說，如果他們發現有使用者寄發了五十封電子郵件給三千位收信者，他們就會讓那位使用者從網路上斷線。垃圾郵件寄發者有時會變換他們郵件上的主旨，以避開自動偵測。但是他們得當心了。世人已經開始看破他們的伎倆，不會再繼續忍受垃圾郵件下去了。
【Vocabulary單字精解】
1. more often than notphr.：往往，經常
2. advertisement﹝?紓dv?櫹?婄t?婛?埩?崨m?瑆nt﹞n.： 廣告
3. chain letter﹝?悿?婍n ?婄l?瑎t?櫹﹞n.：連鎖郵件。即要求收信人看過信後，再大量複製給其他人的信
4. plain﹝pl?婍n﹞adv. ：全然地
5. give up onphr.： 放棄…
6. annoyance﹝?瑆?婄n?瓡?埩?瑆n?屙﹞n.：討厭的事
7. arrest﹝?瑆?婄r?瑎st﹞v. ：逮捕
8. threat﹝?畷r?瑎t﹞n.：威脅
9. existence﹝?埩?婌?婄?崨?埩st?瑆n?屙﹞n. ：存在，生存
10.crime﹝?婑r?婛?埩m﹞n.：罪行
11.spamming﹝sp?紓m?埩?痯﹞n.：散佈垃圾電子郵件
12.turn intophr. ：轉變為
13.federal﹝?婄f?瑎d?瑆r?瑆l﹞a.：聯邦的
14. jail﹝?淗?婍l﹞n.：監獄
15. fine﹝f?婛?埩n﹞n.：罰款
16. up tophr.：最高…
17. tend tophr.：傾向於…
18. spot﹝sp?瑂t﹞v.：發現
19. unit﹝?婄?婇un?埩t﹞n.：單位
20. recipient﹝r?埩?婄?屙?埩p?埩?瑆nt﹞n.：接收者
21. spammer﹝sp?紓m?櫹﹞n.：寄發垃圾電子郵件的人
22. subject line﹝?婄s?瑔b?淗?埩?婑t l?婛?埩n﹞n.：表示主旨的一行
23. automatic﹝?歅?瓡t?瑆?婄m?紓t?埩?婑﹞a. ：自動的
24. detection﹝d?埩?婄t?瑎?婑?瓿?瑆n﹞n.：偵測
25. watch out ﹝w?瑂?悿 ?婛?痸t ﹞phr.：注意，小心
26. see through﹝ s?婩 ?畷?寀?崋﹞phr.：看穿
27. put up with ﹝ p?痸t ?婄?瑔p w?埩?榃 ﹞phr.：忍受
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