2015考研英语阅读数字式家谱_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读数字式家谱

　　The project is an intriguing example of the digital humanities. Scholars are starting tointeract with coders and website designers to make their research more accessible and datapublicly available.

　　这个项目是数字人文的一个有趣的例子。学者们开始和编码员以及网站设计师就同族英国人项目进行交流来使寻亲搜索更加可靠，寻亲信息更加公开化。

　　Certain affinities appear in the data. Poets are often related to each other whereas noveliststend to be linked by marriage. T.S. Eliot, a 20th-century American-born poet, is a distantcousin of the British bards Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley . In contrast links between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens,perhaps the two most famous 19th-century novelists, are through several generations ofmarriages. As characters in novels are more meritocratic, so too are novelists.

　　在数据中，一些亲缘关系出现了。诗人往往是相互关联的，而小说家一般是通过婚姻来挂钩。20世纪出生在美国的诗人艾略特是英国吟游诗人阿尔佛雷德、坦尼森、拜伦、波比雪莱等的远亲表弟，。与之形成对比的是，可称之为19世纪最著名的两位小说家简奥斯汀和狄更斯之间的关系是通过好几代婚姻来建立的。因为小说中的人物更加精英化，所以他们自己也是小说家。

　　Other connections are more unexpected. Gwyneth Paltrow , an American actress,is linked by marriage to A.C. Swinburne, a Victorian poet who dabbled in sadomasochisticverses. David Cameron, the prime minister, is distantly connected to Harold Pinter, adramatist who once said that voting for Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the most shamefulact of my life. Kevin Bacon, a famously well-connected American actor, is related to the16th-century philosopher Francis Bacon.