VOA慢速英语:Living in a World With Facial Recognition

短语讲解：

1. He sees increasing threats to privacy in facial recognition software and cloud computing -- the ability to store huge amounts of information in data centers.

huge amounts of大量的
例句：Our need is not to scale down debt, but to raise huge amounts of new capital. 
我们所需要的不是减少债务，而是筹措庞大数额的新资金。 

2. You can start from an anonymous face and end up with sensitive inferences about that person.

end up with以……告终
例句：If you do that, you'll end up with egg on your face. 
你要是做那件事，必将以耻辱告终。

3. But comparing their photos to pictures on Facebook identified one out of ten people.

compare to与…相比
例句：The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。

4. In the second experiment, the Carnegie Mellon researchers asked permission to take pictures of students on campus.

take pictures照相
例句：The photographer used his flashlight to take pictures of the graduation. 
摄影师用闪光灯照毕业相。

5. In the third experiment, they tried to see how much they could learn about people just from a photo.

learn about获得, 学得
例句：It's no use learning facts about a subject if you don't understand it.
只了解某一学科的知识而并不理解, 那是毫无用处的。

6. Because face recognizers keep improving accuracy, because cloud computing keeps offering more power, and because more and more images of ourselves are going to be online, we are getting really close to this future where what we did as a proof of concept will be possible to do by anyone on a massive scale.

close to离…近
例句：It is close to fact.
这更接近于事实。