人类不光造出了表示时间的钟,还造出了一些表示其它内容的类似于钟的东西。听说,在联合国人口基金会就有一个“人口钟”,它能随时显示全世界总人口已到了多少。而近日翻阅刚刚买到手的《全球网址簿》,忽然发现在国际互联网上还有另一个奇特的钟,那其实是一个网站,叫做“比尔·盖茨的财富钟”。 关于这个网站,《全球网址簿》的编者介绍说:“你是否要知道比尔·盖茨有多少钱?答案是:没有人,甚至Bill先生本人也不知道他值多少钱。不过,这儿有一个web站点,内有根据他所持有的微 Humans not only made clocks that represent time, but also created bell-like things that represent other things. I heard that there is a “population bell” at UNFPA that shows at any moment how much the total population of the world has been reached. Recently, I just bought the handbook “Global Address Book,” and suddenly found that there was another strange clock on the Internet. In fact, it is a website called “Bill Gates’s Fortune Clock.” About this site, the editor of Global URLs explains: "Do you want to know how much Bill Gates is paying for? The answer is: Nobody, not even Mr. Bill himself, knows how much he is worth, but here’s one Web site, based on what he holds