VOA慢速英语2012 Technology Report - Getting News From Around the World With Today’s Front Pages

 

Technology Report - Getting News From Around the World With Today’s Front Pages

科技报道 - 今日头版网提供全球各地报纸头版展示

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.

这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。

We recently told you about a website called PastPages.org. It saves the homepages of seventy news websites from around the world every hour. That report led us to look for a website that saves images of newspapers from around the world.

前不久我们向你讲述了一家名为PastPages.org的网站。该网站每小时会保存下来世界各地70家新闻网站的首页。那篇报道让我们开始寻找一家保存世界各地报纸的图片版的网站。

We found Todays’ Front Pages, a site operated by The Newseum in Washington, DC. The Newseum is a museum that explores news reporting and the media. We visited The Newseum and spoke¹ with its Senior Vice² President, Paul Sparrow.

我们发现了今日头版网（Todays' Front Pages），这家网站由华盛顿特区的新闻博物馆运营。新闻博物馆是一家探索新闻报道和媒体的博物馆。我们参观了新闻博物馆，并与其高级副总裁保罗·斯派洛（Paul Sparrow）进行了交流。

PAUL SPARROW: “I think one of the most interesting things about newspapers is that they are a snapshot in time. They capture a moment when the people in that organization, in that newspaper, say ‘these are the most important stories that are affecting our community.’ And what that does is that it gives you a lens in which you can look at history from a very specific point of view.”

斯派洛：“我认为关于报纸最有趣的事情之一就是，他们是某个时刻的快照。他们捕捉了这样一个瞬间，某机构或报纸讲述‘影响我们社会的最重要的事件。’而这给你一个镜头，让你可以从非常独特的视角来审视历史。”

Paul Sparrow says visitors to the website can choose to see all of its newspapers. Or they can look only at newspapers from one area of the world, such as Asia, Africa or South America.

斯派洛表示，网站访客可以选择查看所有报纸，或者只看来自世界上某个地区的报纸，如亚洲、亚洲或南美。 

PAUL SPARROW: “One of the things that we do is we allow for people to search by region, so we have a map interface³ so you can, you know, roll over different areas of the map and you’ll see the newspapers from that area. People are very interested in that. We get comments all the time, that ‘Oh its great – put your cursor over anyplace in the world and see the papers from that area.’ You can also, we also list them sort of alphabetically⁴ by state and then by country. And then we have a gallery layout where you can just look at all the thumbnails and pick the ones that you like based on their visual presentation.”

斯派洛：“我们允许人们通过地区搜索，所以我们有一个地图界面，你可以在地图的不同地区滚动鼠标，这样就能看到来自该地区的报纸。人们对此非常感兴趣。我们不断被评价说，‘这太好了--将你的鼠标箭头放到世界任何地区，就能看到该地区的报纸。’我们还允许人们按照州和国家的字母顺序排序。然后我们有一个画廊式样的布局，你可以看到所有缩略图，然后挑选出你喜欢的报纸的直观图像。”

Todays’ Front Pages does not archive, or save, front page images. But it does archive newspapers from historically-important dates such as November fifth, two thousand eight. That was one day after Barack Obama was elected president. Again, The Newseum’s Paul Sparrow.

今日头版网不会存档头版的图片。但它会存档历史重要日期的报纸，像2008年11月5日，这是奥巴马当选总统之后的一天。新闻博物馆的斯派洛再次表示：

PAUL SPARROW: “When you look back at the historical newspapers in our collection, you see these amazing moments where the culture is revealed. If you look at like, in World War Two, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the headline is ‘Japs Attack.’ I mean, that’s a headline you would just never see in a paper today.

斯派洛：“当你回顾我们收集的历史性报纸，你可以看到文化显露的这些惊人瞬间。如回顾二战中珍珠港事件后的一天，标题是‘日本出击’。我的意思是，今天的报纸再也看不到这样一个标题。”

The website shows only the front pages of general-interest newspapers that publish daily. Student newspapers are not displayed. Some papers are not included because they do not have the technological⁵ ability to send their front pages electronically to the Newseum. And others simply choose not to do so.

该网站只显示每日出版的公共报纸的头版。学生报纸都不会被展示。有些报纸没被包含进来是因为他们没有发送电子头版的技术能力，而另一些报纸选择不这么做。

The site displays the front pages of eight hundred thirty-six newspapers from ninety-three countries. It warns that “the front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors.”

该网站展示了来自93个国家的836份报纸的头版，并提醒说，“这些头版是原始的，未经过编辑。有些头版可能会含有被一些访客视为反感的材料。”

We have placed a link to Todays’ Front Pages on our website, www.voanews.cn.

我们在网站上放置了一个今日头版网的链接。

If you are in Washington, you can see many front pages from around the world on display inside and just outside The Newseum. Only about ten percent of the front pages the Newseum receives every day are displayed, but all eight hundred thirty-six are available online.

如果你在华盛顿，你可以看到在新闻博物馆内外展示的很多来自世界各地的报纸头版。新闻博物馆每天收到的头版只有大约10%被展示出来，但所有836家报纸的头版都会在网站上展示。

And that’s the VOA Special English Technology Report. I’m Christopher Cruise.

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 interface   

n.接合部位，分界面；v.(使)互相联系

参考例句：

• My computer has a network interface,which allows me to get to other computers.我的计算机有网络接口可以与其它计算机连在一起。
• This program has perspicuous interface and extensive application. 该程序界面明了，适用范围广。

4 alphabetically   

adv.照字母顺序排列地

参考例句：

• I've arranged the books alphabetically so don't muddle them up. 我已按字母顺序把这些书整理了，千万不要再弄乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They are all filed alphabetically under author. 这些都是按照作者姓名的字母顺序归档的。 来自辞典例句

5 technological   

adj.技术的；工艺的

参考例句：

• A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
• Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。