Like him or not, Mark Zuckerberg has amazing creative powers
馬克˙祖克柏：社群媒體超人
不管你喜不喜歡馬克?祖克柏，他的創造力都確實超凡
People have differing opinions about Mark Zuckerburg, founder and CEO of Facebook. Some admire him and want to work for him or to copy his success. He has more than 100 million followers on his own Facebook account! But some polls have also shown that a significant percentage of people don't like him very much at all. The reason for that may not be the nature of the man himself, but of the social media empire he has created. Facebook is a company many people love to hate, and that rubs off on its founder.
Zuckerberg was born in 1984, just as the personal computing revolution was ramping up. That was the year the Apple Macintosh computer was introduced. Like many boys of his generation, young Mark had a deep interest in computers. He began writing computer programs in middle school. In a very smart move, his father, a dentist, hired a software developer to give Mark private lessons. The boy soon produced a computer network for his family to use. He also adapted popular board games to play on computers.
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percentage n.
/pɚˈsɛntɪʤ/
a number or rate that is expressed as a certain number of parts of something divided into 100 parts
- Most of the employees like the new plan, but we don't know the actual percentage.
percent
a part of a whole : portion
- Twenty percent of the students in this school live with both parents.
percentile n.
one of 100 equal parts that a group of people can be divided into in order to rank them
/pɚˈsɛnˌtajəl/
- All the students scored in the 90th percentile.
rub off [phrasal verb]
to come off of a surface and often stick to another surface when the surfaces touch each other
to rub
- Don't rob your eyes.
- Jake is trying to rub off the old paint.
rub off on 影響
- Busy Billy is spending too much time with Lazy Lisa, and her laziness is rubbing off on him.
- Edmond is always cheerful, and it's rubbing off on me.
ramp up [phrasal verb]
ramp up or ramp up (something) or ramp (something) up : to increase or to cause (something) to increase in speed, size, etc.
- There were no ramps in front of the small airport, so it was difficult to bring the large suitcases in.
- After the robbery last week, the jewelry store is going to ramp up security.
- The company is making plans to ramp up production.
ramp-up n.
- The ramp-up of production means the workers will have more work to do.
adapt v.
to change (a movie, book, play, etc.) so that it can be presented in another form
- Mary made a dish that was adapted from her grandmother's recipe.
- I heard that the children's play was adapted from a mystery novel.
to change your behavior so that it is easier to live in a particular place or situation
- Gina has moved overseas and is still learning to adapt to the local culture.
