Hunting for other hints, he noticed that his team had captured information about which internet browser employees had used when they logged in to apply for their jobs. On a whim, he tested whether that choice might be related to quitting. He didn’t expect to find any correlation, assuming that browser preference was purely a matter of taste. But when he looked at the results, he was stunned: Employees who used Firefox or Chrome to browse the Web remained in their jobs 15 percent longer than those who used Internet Explorer or Safari.
1.hunt for xx hints：hunt表示捕猎，寻找，hint表示迹象，用这两个“小词”表示“寻找…迹象”非常生动，又同时押了韵。
2.capture：这个词原意表示俘虏，虏获，后引申为采集（数据等），经常与data连用，表示记录/采集数据。
例句：The data is captured by an optical scanner. 该数据是通过光学扫描仪采集的。
3.on a whim：whim表示突发的念头，一时兴致，a sudden feeling that you would like to do or have something, especially when there is no important or good reason.
on a whim为固定搭配，表示一时心血来潮，比如说：I didn’t leave just on a whim (=for no good reason) . 我不是一时心血来潮离开的。
4.a matter of taste：表示个人喜好，a matter of xx属于固定用法，表示是xx的事情而不是别的，比如a matter of fact. taste除了口味，还有一个意思是喜好，偏好，the kind of things that someone likes，可以用它来替换preference等词。
比如说：He asked about my taste in music. 他问我喜欢什么音乐。
5.stunned：这个形容词是由stun这个动词演变而来，stun表示震惊，而stunned表示震惊的，同时它的另一个形式stunning则表示令人惊奇的/非常漂亮的。
stunned可以用来替换shocked，surprised等词。
例句：He looked completely stunned. 他看上去完全惊呆了。
Thinking it was a coincidence, Housman ran the same analysis for absences from work. The pattern was the same: Firefox and Chrome users were 19 percent less likely to miss work than Internet Explorer and Safari fans.
6.run a analysis：这里表达做分析并没有使用do或者conduct，而是用了run这个比较口语的小词，值得注意。
7.fans：通常我们在表达“使用xx的人”会想到user/who use…等等，这个fans在这里更加生动和生活化，更有偏好用xx的含义。
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