时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语听力精选进阶版 6202 - 英语课
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An Alien Language 外星人的语言


The blockbuster film Avatar has been a smash hit at the box office in the UK and around the world, becoming the fastest film ever to earn $1bn (7bn yuan) in ticket sales.


But as well as being an entertaining feast for the eyes, the sci-fi epic 1 also introduces movie-goers to a brand new language invented especially for the film.


The movie is set on an alien planet called Pandora which is inhabited by many strange species. The most humanoid of the planet's inhabitants are the Na'vi, and it is the struggle between the Na'vi and human interlopers that forms the core narrative 2 of the film.


In order to add authenticity 3 to his vision of an alien race the film’s director James Cameron asked a professor of linguistics 4 from the University of Southern California to invent a language for the Na'vi.


Professor Paul Frommer worked with James Cameron for four years to build upon the original 30 words or so that the director had already come up with for the language.


According to Professor Frommer, the most important aspect of the Na'vi language was that it could be articulated.


"This is an alien language but obviously it has to be spoken by human actors," Professor Frommer told the BBC, "it has to be sounds that human beings are comfortable producing."


The language currently has a lexicon 5 of around 1000 words but Professor Frommer hopes to expand it in possible sequels to the film and in video games.


The professor hopes that one day his creation will become as sophisticated as the Klingon alien language from the Star Trek 6 films.


"There's a translation of Hamlet into Klingon," says Professor Frommer.


"If anything happened like this with Na'vi I'd be delighted."


Glossary 词汇表


blockbuster 热门电影 


smash hit 非常受欢迎的 


feast for the eyes 视觉大餐 


sci-fi epic 科幻史诗 


inhabited 居住 


species 种类,种族 


humanoid 具有人类特点的 


interlopers 入侵者 


core narrative 主要故事 


add authenticity 增加真实性 


alien race 外星人 


linguistics 语言学 


come up with 想出 


articulated 发音 


lexicon 词汇 


sequels 续集 


sophisticated 高水平的 


Klingon 克林贡帝国 (星际迷航中虚构的一个好战外星种族) 


Star Trek 星际大战 


Hamlet 哈姆雷特



n.史诗,叙事诗;adj.史诗般的,壮丽的
  • I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
  • They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
n.叙述,故事;adj.叙事的,故事体的
  • He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
  • Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
n.真实性
  • There has been some debate over the authenticity of his will. 对于他的遗嘱的真实性一直有争论。
  • The museum is seeking an expert opinion on the authenticity of the painting. 博物馆在请专家鉴定那幅画的真伪。
n.语言学
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • Linguistics is a scientific study of the property of language.语言学是指对语言的性质所作的系统研究。
n.字典,专门词汇
  • Chocolate equals sin in most people's lexicon.巧克力在大多数人的字典里等同于罪恶。
  • Silent earthquakes are only just beginning to enter the public lexicon.无声地震才刚开始要成为众所周知的语汇。
vi.作长途艰辛的旅行;n.长途艰苦的旅行
  • We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
  • It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。
学英语单词
A.B.Ed.
aeromonas disease
Alash
albedo component
Allah's House
appended space
applelicious
banana split
blotting-paper
bunsen
by work
cancellatus
captive finance companies
caugheys
cefuracetime
christobalite (cristobatite)
chrome iron
chronophages
citynik
cold cathode fluorescence lamp
counterpulls
custard slice
dairyless
dangerous point clause
dicough
disease process
disemploy
disjunctive conjunctions
fiesty
fighting spirit
filling retraction
footways
formilase
fractional dissolution
free-expansion implosion
gonella
hardening cabinet
Heim-Kreysig sign
interface payload
intrastate offering of stock
it-all
Joel Harris
Kautskyites
kick-killing
Lans.
let on
mabuya multicarinata multi-keeled mabuya
make-up water preheater
microcilium
misspeaks
Mongororo
muleteer
MX-CUF
mycoticopeptic
n.a.b
narrow-gap welding
Nechayevka
negative outcome
nominal screen aperture
omental foramina
patavano
pecham
penicillum roseum link
platelet cofactor
pole bore
poorly graded
pressure source
prototype development system
protrichocyst
pseudo-potential vorticity equation
radiating veins
ratio modulation
re-affiliations
reborns
regular convergence
resource allocation table
restricted connected-speech recognition system
rulings of acquittal
sagapenum
Se155-4
Self-Directed RRSP
sheilas
Simonians
sinds sardine
Skevington's daughter
skin current
slop oil
speed of power
stereo.
subjectively
system of framing
systematize
tacituss
tap(ping) pipe
the classroom
toalipi
treasonists
Uniform Law on Cheques
unpricked
unreciprocated
vertical electric-driven reciprocating pump