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　　Google announced a novel way to access the Internet -- via the toilet -- in an April Fool's Day gag on its website Sunday.

　　上周日，Google 在其网站上发布了一条愚人节恶搞新闻，自称开发了一种能通过厕所上网的最新上网方式。

　　The Mountain View, California-based technology concern introduced its "Dark Porcelain" project, with Internet access via computer users' household plumbing.

　　据地处加利福尼亚州山景城的Google公司介绍，这个名为“黑陶瓷”的项目主要是通过计算机用户家里的管道上网。

　　The "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) project highlighted on Google's webpage is "a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system."

　　Google公司在其网站上宣传的这一“厕所互联网服务”是“一项可自行安装、支持广告、完全免费的在线服务；用户的计算机只要能无线上网，家中的厕所只要与当地的下水道系统相通即可连通。”

　　"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," the website says, quoting Google co-founder and president Larry Page.

　　Google在这条新闻中还援引公司的创建人之一兼总裁拉里·佩奇说：“目前这一‘可连通世界’的项目已基本在我们的掌控之中。”

　　"What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you -- not to mention from you," the mock press release read.

　　这则恶搞新闻称，“有意思的是，接受一条信息的模式就有很多种，更不用说发布信息。”

　　The company hailed the breakthrough technology "that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities."

　　Google公司大赞这项具有突破性的技术“充分利用了现有的管道和下水道系统以及相关的液压数据传输能力。”

　　"There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," said Page.

　　佩奇说：“实际上，一个蓬勃发展的小型地下组织对此已经研究很久了。”

　　"And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and -- splat -- right onto your PC."

　　“如今，我们的厕所ISP团队对于能领先于这一领域感到很高兴，实现了个人电脑与厕所中下水道的连接。”

　　（来源：英语点津 姗姗编辑）