'New technologies like Facebook have really captured our attention, to the extent that, if we're not using it, we're probably talking about it.
“Facebook等新兴科技产物确确实实地吸引了我们的注意力,即使在我们不使用它们的时候,我们也在讨论它们。”
'The rise of 'awesome' seems to provide evidence of American English's influence on British speakers.'
“awesome一词的崛起似乎证明了美式英语对英国人的影响。”
These are only the initial findings from a small pilot of the project, named the 'Spoken British National Corpus 2017', which is now underway.
以上仅是“2017年英国国家口语语料库”项目的一个试点项目的初步发现,该项目还处于开展阶段。
Prof McEnery said: 'We need to gather hundreds, if not thousands, of conversations to create a spoken corpus so we can continue to analyse the way language has changed over the last 20 years.
麦克恩尼利教授说:“我们需要搜集成千上万段日常对话来建立口语语料库,这样我们才能继续分析语言在近20年中的演变。”
'We are calling for people to send us MP3 files of their everyday, informal conversations in exchange for a small payment to help me and my team to delve deeper into spoken language.'
“我们让人们录下他们每天的非正式对话并把MP3文件寄给我们,相应地我们也会向他们支付一些报酬。这些文件可以帮助我和我的团队更加深入地研究口语。”
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