雅思聽(tīng)力對(duì)話：技術(shù)影響語(yǔ)言01
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聽(tīng)力原文及翻譯
Right everyone, let's make a start. Over the past few sessions, we've been considering the reasons why some world languages are in decline, and today I'm going to introduce another factor that affects languages and the speakers of those languages, and that's technology, and in particular digital technology.
好了，各位，讓我們開(kāi)始吧。在過(guò)去的幾節(jié)課中，我們一直在思考一些世界語(yǔ)言衰落的原因，今天我將介紹另一個(gè)影響語(yǔ)言及其使用者的因素，那就是技術(shù)，特別是數(shù)字技術(shù)。
In order to illustrate its effect, I'm going to focus on the Icelandic language, which is spoken by around 321,000 people, most of whom live in Iceland, an island in the North Atlantic Ocean. The problem for this language is not the number of speakers, even though this number is small, nor is it about losing words to other languages such as English.
為了說(shuō)明其影響，我將重點(diǎn)介紹冰島語(yǔ)，大約有 321,000 人使用這種語(yǔ)言，其中大多數(shù)人居住在北大西洋的冰島。這種語(yǔ)言的問(wèn)題不在于使用者的數(shù)量，盡管這個(gè)數(shù)字很小，也不在于詞匯被其他語(yǔ)言（如英語(yǔ)）所取代。
In fact, the vocabulary of Icelandic is continually increasing because when speakers need a new word for something, they tend to create one rather than borrowing from another language. All this makes Icelandic quite a special language. It's changed very little in the past millennium, yet it can handle 21st century concepts related to the use of computers and digital technology. Take for example the word for web browser, which is "vuffrey" in Icelandic, which comes from the verb to wander.
事實(shí)上，冰島語(yǔ)的詞匯量在不斷增加，因?yàn)楫?dāng)使用者需要一個(gè)新的詞來(lái)表示某件事時(shí)，他們傾向于創(chuàng)造一個(gè)，而不是從另一種語(yǔ)言中借用。所有這些都使冰島語(yǔ)成為一種非常特殊的語(yǔ)言。在過(guò)去的一千年里，它幾乎沒(méi)有什么變化，但它可以處理與使用計(jì)算機(jī)和數(shù)字技術(shù)相關(guān)的 21 世紀(jì)概念。以網(wǎng)絡(luò)瀏覽器為例，在冰島語(yǔ)中是“vuffrey”，源自動(dòng)詞“wander”。
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