研究表明:美國在技術利用方面落後了

The United States continues to lag other nations in its use of computing and communications technology, according to an annual study issued Tuesday by the World Economic Forum.
美國在利用計算和通信技術方面繼續滯後於其他國家，根據世界經濟論壇星期二發表的年度研究發現。

For the second consecutive year, the United States finished fifth in the study’s comparison of 138 countries that make up 98.8 percent of the world’s total gross domestic product. Sweden was first, followed by Singapore, Finland and Switzerland.
美國連續兩年在由138個國家組成的佔世界總GDP 98.8%的對比研究中獲得第五名。瑞典第一名，接下來是新加坡，芬蘭和瑞士。

These rankings, for 2010, are based on an index of 71 economic and social indicators, as diverse as new patents, mobile phone subscriptions and availability of venture capital.
2010年的這些排名是基於71個經濟和社會指標的指數，如新專利，移動電話用戶和風險投資的實用性。

The annual reports began in 2001, after the collapse of the Internet bubble. The World Economic Forum, based in Davos, Switzerland, holds that technological progress is the principal driver of innovation, productivity and efficiency.
年度報告從2001年互聯網泡沫崩潰之後開始的。總部在瑞士達沃斯的世界經濟論壇認爲，技術進步是創新、生產率和有效性的主要動力。

“What we are trying to address,” said a co-author of the study, Soumitra Dutta, a professor of Information Systems at the Insead business school, “is what is the capability and what is the level of success of a nation to benefit from the network economy?”
研究報告的合作作者，歐洲管理學院信息系統教授Soumitra Dutta說：“我們試圖解決的是什麼是能力和什麼是一個國家受益於網絡經濟的成功水平？”

The study showed the rapid progress of the so-called Asian Tigers, whose governments have invested heavily in technology. Besides Singapore, Taiwan was ranked 6th, South Korea 10th and Hong Kong 12th. Japan was 19th.
該研究表明所謂的亞洲四小龍快速發展，由於這些國家政府在技術上都投入巨資。除了新加坡，臺灣排名第六，韓國第十，香港第十二，日本第十九。

(恆星英語學習網原創編譯,轉載請註明出處!)China ranked 36th and India 48th, falling five places from 2009. Rounding out the large developing BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — Brazil was 56th and Russia 77th.
中國排名第36，印度第48，從2009年下降了5位。在發展中的大金磚四國——巴西，俄羅斯，印度和中國——巴西排名第56, 而俄羅斯排名第77。

The country making the most progress in 2010 was Indonesia, which jumped 14 places to 53rd — in part because of high educational standards and in part because of the importance the government has placed on information and communications technology.
2010年取得最大進步的國家是印度尼西亞，上升了14名達到第53名——部分由於該國高教育標準，部分由於政府對信息通信技術的關注。

Among Western nations, Canada was 8th, Norway 9th, Germany 13th, Britain 15th and France 20th. The two lowest countries were Burundi and Chad.
西方國家中，加拿大排名第8，挪威第9，德國第13，英國第15，法國第20.兩個最低的國家是布隆迪和乍得。

The United States was uneven on many measures that affect economic competitiveness. For example, it ranked 76th in the rate of mobile phone subscriptions, 48th in low-cost access to business phone lines and 24th in percentage of households with a personal computer — behind Bahrain, Singapore and Brunei, among others. Professor Dutta said the United States ranked 52nd in math and science education.
美國影響經濟競爭力的很多措施都不均勻。例如，其中，移動電話用戶率排名第76，低成本獲取商業電話線排名第48，家庭個人電腦比例排名第24。Dutta教授說美國的數學和科學教育排名第52.

The World Economic Forum has created an ambitious Web site, , to display the findings, including a visualization tool useful for exploring the data.
世界經濟論壇已經創造了一個雄心勃勃的網站——來展示一些調查結果，包括一個對探索數據有用的可視化工具。

(恆星英語學習網原創編譯,轉載請註明出處!)