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Part C: Translation (2023)

Part 1: Full Text (Click to Translate)

There has been some exploration around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital marketing. For example, AI can be used to analyse what type of advertising content or copy would be appropriate to speak to specific target customer group by revealing information about trends and preferences through the analysis of big data. (46) AI can also be used to identify the lifestyle choices of customers regarding their hobbies, favourite celebrities, and fashions to provide unique content in marketing messages put out through social media. At the same time AI can also be used to generate content for social media posts and chat sites. 
The main disadvantage of using AI to respond to customers is that there are concerns about trusting personal interactions to machines, which could lead not only to the subsequent loss of interpersonal connections, but also to decrease in marketing personnel. (47) Some believe that AI is negatively impacting on the marketers role by reducing creativity and removing jobs, but they are aware that it is way of reducing costs and creating new information. By allowing AI to develop content some brand marketers may find that they are losing control over the brand narrative. (48) Algorithms used to simulate human interactions are creating many of these concerns, especially as no-one is quite sure what the outcomes of using AI to interact with customers will be. 
For AI to be successful, data needs to be accessible, but the use of personal data is becoming more regulated and the automated sharing of data is becoming more difficult. (49) If customers are not willing to share data, AI will be starved of essential information and will not be able to function effectively or employ machine learning to improve its marketing content and communication. Therefore, unless customers are prepared to sign release agreements, the use of AI may become somewhat restricted in the future. Not only can AI help to create the marketing content, but it can also provide non-intrusive way of delivering the content to the target customers. Data can be gathered on where the customer can be engaged, such as location, devices used, website interactions, and sites visited, to display marketing messages in appropriate forms, including emails, social media posts, pop-up advertisements, and banners at an appropriate frequency. (50) The nonintrusive delivery of the marketing messages in way that is sensitive to the needs of the target customer is one of the critical challenges to the digital marketer. 

Part 2: Sentence Translation (Click to Expand)

(46)AI can also be used to identify the lifestyle choices of customers regarding their hobbies, favourite celebrities, and fashions to provide unique content in marketing messages put out through social media.
(47)Some believe that AI is negatively impacting on the marketer's role by reducing creativity and removing jobs, but they are aware that it is a way of reducing costs and creating new information.
(48)Algorithms used to simulate human interactions are creating many of these concerns, especially as no-one is quite sure what the outcomes of using AI to interact with customers will be.
(49)If customers are not willing to share data, AI will be starved of essential information and will not be able to function effectively or employ machine learning to improve its marketing content and communication.
(50)The nonintrusive delivery of the marketing messages in a way that is sensitive to the needs of the target customer is one of the critical challenges to the digital marketer.

Part 3: Syntax Analysis (难点句型剖析)

(46) 句型拆解:被动语态与目的状语
主干为 AI can also be used to identify...(人工智能也可以被用来识别...)。在 choices of customers 之后,regarding their hobbies, favourite celebrities, and fashions 是介词短语作后置定语,修饰 choices。to provide unique content... 是不定式表目的(从而提供独特内容)。最后的 put out through social media 是过去分词短语作后置定语,修饰 messages。

(47) 句型拆解:宾语从句与方式状语
本句是由 but 连接的并列句。前半句主干为 Some believe that...,that 引导宾语从句,从句中 by reducing creativity and removing jobs 为介词短语作方式状语。后半句主干为 they are aware that...,同样由 that 引导宾语从句,说明 AI 是降低成本和创造新信息的一种方式。

(48) 句型拆解:过去分词作定语与原因状语从句
主语 Algorithms 后面紧跟过去分词短语 used to simulate human interactions 作后置定语。主干为 Algorithms... are creating many of these concerns。逗号后由 especially as 引导原因状语从句(特别是因为)。在该状语从句中,sure 后面接了由 what 引导的宾语从句 what the outcomes of using AI to interact with customers will be

(49) 句型拆解:条件状语从句与并列谓语
句首是 If 引导的条件状语从句。主句的主干为 AI will be starved of... and will not be able to function... or employ...。主句包含两个由 and 连接的并列谓语,第二个谓语 not be able to 后面又接了由 or 连接的两个动词原形:function effectivelyemploy machine learning。句末的 to improve... 为不定式表目的。

(50) 句型拆解:超长主语与定语从句
句子的主语极其长:The nonintrusive delivery of the marketing messages in a way that is sensitive to the needs of the target customer。核心主语是 deliveryin a way 是方式状语,而 way 后面跟了由 that 引导的定语从句 that is sensitive to the needs of the target customer 进行修饰。句子的谓语是 is,表语是 one of the critical challenges to the digital marketer

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