VOA慢速英语2016--Siri展示一个新的技巧
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月
AS IT IS 2016-01-14 Trending Today: Siri Shows Off A New Trick Siri展示一个新的技巧
This is What’s Trending Today…
Apple’s virtual 1 assistant, named Siri, can do all sorts of cool things.
She can help you search for a contact. She can look up Donald Trump’s biography 2 on Wikipedia. She can play a sample of the songs on the top of the charts.
But did you know she can beatbox?
Beatboxing is what people do when they provide the background sounds for rap 3 songs using only their mouths.
In the early days of rap, before people had special equipment, beatboxing was one of the only ways to create a good background track for a song.
Some people became famous for their ability to beatbox. There’s even a world championship of beatboxing.
Here are actor Will Smith and comedian 4 Jimmy Fallon doing a beatbox skit 5.
So if you ask Siri if she knows how to beatbox, you might be surprised at the answer.
She says “here’s one I’ve been practicing.”
The she goes on to say “boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots.”
That is because an easy way to learn how to beatbox is by repeating those words quickly, and close together.
Here is a YouTube video where a girl named Mya explains.
The beatboxing trick was one of the trending topics on Facebook today after the website Mashable posted about it.
And lots of people got a kick out of trying it.
If you have an iPhone, try it out. Let us know what happens!
And that’s What’s Trending Today.
Words in This Story
beatbox – v. to use only sounds from your mouth to make the background sounds for a song
biography – n. the story of a real person's life written by someone other than that person
- This reply is a virtual acceptance of our offer.这一回答实质上是接受了我们的建议。
- At that time the East India Company was the virtual ruler of Bengal.那时东印度公司是孟加拉的实际统治者。
- He is now collecting material for a biography of Tao Yuanming.他正在为写陶渊明传记搜集材料。
- Boswell wrote a famous biography of Dr.White.鲍斯韦尔为怀特博士写过一本著名传记。
- I heard a rap on the door.我听到有轻轻的敲门声。
- Today we are going to rap about relationships.今天我们要聊聊关系的问题。
- The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
- The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。