研究表明:美国在技术利用方面落后了

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.
美国在利用计算和通信技术方面继续滞后于其他国家，根据世界经济论坛星期二发表的年度研究发现。

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.
美国连续两年在由138个国家组成的占世界总GDP 98.8%的对比研究中获得第五名。瑞典第一名，接下来是新加坡，芬兰和瑞士。

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年的这些排名是基于71个经济和社会指标的指数，如新专利，移动电话用户和风险投资的实用性。

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.
年度报告从2001年互联网泡沫崩溃之后开始的。总部在瑞士达沃斯的世界经济论坛认为，技术进步是创新、生产率和有效性的主要动力。

“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?”
研究报告的合作作者，欧洲管理学院信息系统教授Soumitra Dutta说：“我们试图解决的是什么是能力和什么是一个国家受益于网络经济的成功水平？”

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.
该研究表明所谓的亚洲四小龙快速发展，由于这些国家政府在技术上都投入巨资。除了新加坡，台湾排名第六，韩国第十，香港第十二，日本第十九。

(恒星英语学习网原创编译,转载请注明出处!)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.
中国排名第36，印度第48，从2009年下降了5位。在发展中的大金砖四国——巴西，俄罗斯，印度和中国——巴西排名第56, 而俄罗斯排名第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年取得最大进步的国家是印度尼西亚，上升了14名达到第53名——部分由于该国高教育标准，部分由于政府对信息通信技术的关注。

Among Western nations, Canada was 8th, Norway 9th, Germany 13th, Britain 15th and France 20th. The two lowest countries were Burundi and Chad.
西方国家中，加拿大排名第8，挪威第9，德国第13，英国第15，法国第20.两个最低的国家是布隆迪和乍得。

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.
美国影响经济竞争力的很多措施都不均匀。例如，其中，移动电话用户率排名第76，低成本获取商业电话线排名第48，家庭个人电脑比例排名第24。Dutta教授说美国的数学和科学教育排名第52.

The World Economic Forum has created an ambitious Web site, , to display the findings, including a visualization tool useful for exploring the data.
世界经济论坛已经创造了一个雄心勃勃的网站——来展示一些调查结果，包括一个对探索数据有用的可视化工具。

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