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剑桥雅思 17 Test 2 Part 4 Transcript / 听力原文

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Right, everyone, let's make a start.

好吧，大家，让我们开始吧。
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Over the past few sessions,

在过去的几届会议中，
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we've been considering the reasons why some world languages are in decline,

我们一直在思考一些世界语言正在衰落的原因，
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and today I'm going to introduce another factor that affects languages,

今天我要介绍另一个影响语言的因素，
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and the speakers of those languages,

以及那些语言的使用者，
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and that's technology, and, in particular, digital technology.

这就是技术，特别是数字技术。
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In order to illustrate its effect,

为了说明其效果，
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I'm going to focus on the Icelandic language,

我将重点关注冰岛语
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which is spoken by around 321,000 people,

约有 321,000 人使用该语言，
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most of whom live in Iceland - an island in the North Atlantic Ocean.

他们中的大多数人居住在冰岛——北大西洋的一个岛屿。
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The problem for this language is not the number of speakers,

这种语言的问题不在于使用者的数量，
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even though this number is small.

尽管这个数字很小。
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Nor is it about losing words to other languages, such as English.

这也不是因为其他语言（例如英语）失去了单词。
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In fact, the vocabulary of Icelandic is continually increasing

事实上，冰岛语的词汇量正在不断增加
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because when speakers need a new word for something,

因为当说话者需要用新词来形容某事时
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they tend to create one, rather than borrowing from another language.

他们倾向于创造一种语言，而不是借用另一种语言。
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All this makes Icelandic quite a special language,

所有这些使冰岛语成为一种非常特殊的语言，
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it's changed very little in the past millennium,

过去的千年里变化很小
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yet it can handle twenty-first-century concepts related to the use of computers and digital technology.

但它可以处理与计算机和数字技术使用相关的二十一世纪概念。
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Take, for example, the word for web browser...

举个例子，网络浏览器这个词......
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this is vafri in Icelandic,

这是冰岛语中的 vafri，
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which comes from the verb 'to wander'.

它来自动词“徘徊”。
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I can't think of a more appropriate term because that's exactly what you do mentally when you browse the internet.

我想不出更合适的术语，因为这正是您浏览互联网时的心理活动。
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Then there's an Icelandic word for podcast,

冰岛语中有一个词表示播客，
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which is too hard to pronounce!

这太难发音了！
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And so on.

等等。
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Icelandic, then, is alive and growing, but - and it's a big but,

那么，冰岛语仍然充满活力并不断发展，但是——这是一个很大的但是，
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young Icelanders spend a great deal of time in the digital world

年轻的冰岛人在数字世界中花费了大量时间
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and this world is predominantly English.

这个世界主要是英语。
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Think about smartphones.

想想智能手机。
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They didn't even exist until comparatively recently,

直到最近它们才存在，
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but today young people use them all the time to read books, watch TV or films,

但现在年轻人总是用它们来读书、看电视或电影，
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play games, listen to music, and so on.

玩游戏、听音乐等等。
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Obviously, this is a good thing in many respects because it promotes their bilingual skills,

显然，这在很多方面都是一件好事，因为它提高了他们的双语技能，
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but the extent of the influence of English in the virtual world is staggering

但英语在虚拟世界中的影响程度却是惊人的
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and it's all happening really fast.

这一切都发生得非常快。
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For their parents and grandparents,

对于他们的父母和祖父母来说，
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the change is less concerning because they already have their native-speaker skills in Icelandic.

这种变化并不那么令人担忧，因为他们已经具备了冰岛语的母语技能。
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But for young speakers -

但对于年轻的演讲者来说——
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well, the outcome is a little troubling.

好吧，结果有点令人不安。
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For example, teachers have found that playground conversations in Icelandic secondary schools

例如，教师发现冰岛中学的操场对话
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can be conducted entirely in English,

可以完全用英语进行，
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while teachers of much younger children have reported situations

而年幼孩子的老师也报告了情况
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where their classes find it easier to say what is in a picture using English, rather than Icelandic.

他们的班级发现用英语比冰岛语更容易说出图片中的内容。
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The very real and worrying consequence of all this

这一切的真实且令人担忧的后果
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is that the young generation in Iceland is at risk of losing its mother tongue.

冰岛的年轻一代正面临失去母语的风险。
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Of course, this is happening to other European languages too,

当然，这种情况也发生在其他欧洲语言上，
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but while internet companies might be willing to offer, say, French options in their systems,

但是，尽管互联网公司可能愿意在其系统中提供法式选项，
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it's much harder for them to justify the expense of doing the same for a language

对他们来说，证明为一种语言做同样的事情的费用是合理的要困难得多
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that has a population the size of a French town, such as Nice.

其人口相当于尼斯等法国城镇的人口规模。
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The other drawback of Icelandic is the grammar,

冰岛语的另一个缺点是语法，
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which is significantly more complex than in most languages.

这比大多数语言要复杂得多。
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At the moment, the tech giants are simply not interested in tackling this.

目前，科技巨头根本没有兴趣解决这个问题。
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So, what is the Icelandic government doing about this?

那么，冰岛政府对此有何举措呢？
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Well, large sums of money are being allocated to a language technology fund

嗯，大量资金被分配给语言技术基金
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that it is hoped will lead to the development of Icelandic sourced apps

希望能够促进冰岛源应用程序的开发
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and other social media and digital systems,

以及其他社交媒体和数字系统，
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but clearly this is going to be an uphill struggle.

但显然这将是一场艰苦的斗争。
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On the positive side,

从积极的一面来看，
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they know that Icelandic is still the official language of education and government.

他们知道冰岛语仍然是教育和政府的官方语言。
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It has survived for well over a thousand years

它已经存在了一千多年
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and the experts predict that its future in this nation state is sound and will continue to be so.

专家们预测，这个民族国家的未来是美好的，并将继续如此。
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However, there's no doubt that it's becoming an inevitable second choice in young people's lives.

然而，毫无疑问，它正在成为年轻人生活中不可避免的第二选择。
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This raises important questions.

这提出了重要的问题。
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When you consider how much of the past is tied up in a language,

当你考虑过去有多少与一种语言联系在一起时，
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will young Icelanders lose their sense of their own identity?

年轻的冰岛人会失去自己的身份感吗？
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Another issue that concerns the government of Iceland is this.

冰岛政府关注的另一个问题是这个。
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If children are learning two languages through different routes,

如果孩子们通过不同的途径学习两种语言，
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neither of which they are fully fluent in,

他们都不能完全流利，
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will they be able to express themselves properly?

他们能正确表达自己吗？

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