The second related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
No one knows the precise use Google will make of the intellectual property it has gained by scanning the world's library books, and the truth, as Gleick, an American science writer and member of the Authors Guild, points out, is that the company probably doesn't even know itself
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
Google defends its scanning in-copyright books by saying that the online display of in-copyright books is not for commercial use.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
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VERB
粗略地看;快讀;瀏覽
When you scan written material, you look through it quickly in order to find important or interesting information.
例句
She scanned the advertisement pages of the newspapers...
她瀏覽了一下報紙的廣告頁。
I haven't read much into it as yet. I've only just scanned through it.
我還沒有細細研讀，只是粗略地翻看了一下。
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VERB
細看;察看;審視;端詳
When you scan a place or group of people, you look at it carefully, usually because you are looking for something or someone.
例句
The officer scanned the room...
那名警官仔細檢查了房間。
She was nervous and kept scanning the crowd for Paul...
她很緊張，眼睛不停地在人群中搜尋保羅。
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VERB
(用機器)掃描(行李等)
If people scan something such as luggage, they examine it using a machine that can show or find things inside it that cannot be seen from the outside.
例句
Their approach is to scan every checked-in bag with a bomb detector.
他們的方法是用炸彈探測器對每一個辦理了登機手續(xù)的箱包進行掃描。
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VERB
掃描(磁盤以查毒)
If a computer disk is scanned, a program on the computer checks the disk to make sure that it does not contain a virus.
例句
The disk has no viruses — I've scanned it already.
這個盤沒有感染病毒——我已經(jīng)掃描過了。
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VERB
掃描(照片或文件)
If a picture or document is scanned into a computer, a machine passes a beam of light over it to make a copy of it in the computer.
例句
The entire paper contents of all libraries will eventually be scanned into computers...
所有圖書館的全部紙質(zhì)內(nèi)容最終都會被掃描進電腦。
Designs can also be scanned in from paper.
設計圖也可以從紙上掃描進電腦。
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VERB
(雷達、聲吶等)掃描，掃掠
If a radar or sonar machine scans an area, it examines or searches it by sending radar or sonar beams over it.
例句
The ship's radar scanned the sea ahead.
船上的雷達掃描了前方的海域。
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N-COUNT
(醫(yī)療)掃描檢查
A scan is a medical test in which a machine sends a beam of X-rays over a part of your body in order to check that it is healthy.
例句
He was rushed to hospital for a brain scan.
他被火速送往醫(yī)院做腦部掃描。
...a breast scan to check for cancer.
為診察癌癥所做的乳腺掃描檢查
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胎兒掃描檢查
If a pregnant woman has a scan, a machine using sound waves produces an image of her womb on a screen so that a doctor can see if her baby is developing normally.
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VERB
(詩)符合格律，韻節(jié)合拍
If a line of a poem does not scan, it is not the right length or does not have emphasis in the right places to match the rest of the poem.
例句
He had written a few poems. Sid told him they didn't scan.
他寫了幾首詩。錫德告訴他那幾首詩都不押韻。