The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into children’s writing are anything to go by.
如果一项对儿童作文的研究结果可靠的话,那么比起狄更斯或莎士比亚等英国文坛巨匠,书面英语的未来受好莱坞电影的影响会更大。
The analysis of 74,000 short stories found that their written work was littered with Americanisms, exclamation marks and references to celebrities.
对74000篇儿童短文的分析发现,这些文字作品中俨然处处可见美式英语、感叹号和明星姓名。
Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, cranky and flashlight.
研究人员阅读了全国作文比赛的参赛作品后发现,,孩子们正越来越多地使用一些美式英语词汇,比如:garbage(垃圾), trash can(垃圾桶), sidewalk(人行道), candy(糖果), sneakers(胶底运动鞋), soda(苏打水), cranky(暴躁的) and flashlight(手电筒)。
The stories, written by pupils aged seven to 13, show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. ‘Smart’ is now often used for ‘clever’ and ‘cranky’ for ‘irritable’.
这些短篇作文出自7-13岁孩子们之手,小学生们用纸杯蛋糕(cupcakes)来代替仙女蛋糕(fairy cakes),晚礼服(dinner jacket)则变成了无尾礼服(tuxedo)。常用美式英语还有‘smart’现在也替代了英式用词’clever’来表示聪明之意,而表达暴躁古怪之意的’cranky’也取代了’irritable’。
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