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2018
年英语阅读精析
一、谷歌发布
2018
年十大热门搜索词汇
The World Cup, the
movie
famous people are among the most
popular Google searches of 2018.
世界杯、电影
《黑豹》
、梅根
·
马克尔以及数位名人
的去世入选了
2018
年谷歌最
热门搜
索词汇。
The search
engine company this week released its yearly
ranking of search terms that
had the
highest growth in comparison to the year before. <
/p>
这家搜索引擎公司本周发布了相比去年增长最快的搜索词汇的年度排名。
< br>
The World Cup final
between France and Croatia is at the top of
Google's list.
法国和克罗地亚之间的世界杯决赛位居谷歌的榜首。
The
second-
and
third-most
popular
search
topics
were
for
the
young
musicians
Avicii and Mac
Miller. Both died in 2018.
排名第二和第三位的最热门搜索话题是年轻音乐家艾维奇以及迈克
·
米勒。这两
人都在
2018
年去世
。
Sweden's
Avicii started his music career at the age of 16.
He retired after 10 years
and killed
himself in April at the age of 29.
来自瑞典的艾维奇
16
岁开始他的音乐生涯，
他在
10
年后宣布告别舞台，
并在今
年
4
月份自杀，
年方
29
岁。
American singer Mac Miller
died of a drug overdose in September. He was only
26
years old.
美国歌手迈克
< br>·
米勒今年
9
月因为药物过量而
死亡，年仅
26
岁。
Stan Lee took the fourth
spot on the list. He was the creator of famous
comic book
characters like Spider-Man,
the Hulk and Black Panther. He died in November at
the
age of 95.
斯坦李在这个榜单上排名第四
，
他是蜘蛛人、
绿巨人和黑豹等著名漫画人物的创
造者。他于今年
11
月去世，享年
< br>95
岁。
office records around the
world. It was also the most-tweeted-about movie
ever.
《黑豹》
是第五大搜索词汇。
这部超级英雄电影打破了世界票房记录，
它也是有
史以来推
文提及最多的电影。
The
much-discussed
May
wedding
of
Britain's
Prince
Harry
and
American
actor
Meghan Markle landed Markle in sixth
place on Google's 2018 list.
英国哈里王子和美国演
员梅根
·
马克尔今年
5
月受到热议的婚礼让马克尔排到了
谷歌
2018
年榜单的第六位。
American cook and television
personality Anthony Bourdain, musician
XXXTentacion,
scientist Stephen Hawking
and fashion designer Kate Spade also were among
the top
10 Google searches.
美国厨师兼电视名人安东尼
·
伯尔顿、音乐家
< br>XXXTentacion
、科学家史蒂芬
·
霍金
以及时装设计师凯特
·
斯蓓也入选了谷歌十大搜索词汇。
Bourdain
and
Spade
both
killed
themselves
in
June
--
within
the
same
one-week
period.
Their
suicides
led
to
strong
calls
for
more
mental
health
treatment
and
suicide prevention
efforts.
伯尔顿和斯蓓都在今年
6
< br>月自杀身亡，
还是同一周内。
他们的自杀也导致人们强<
/p>
烈呼吁强化心理健康治疗和自杀预防措施。
二、盘
点
2018
年离世的公众人物
People We Lost in
2018
As 2018 comes to a
close, many people are thinking about loved ones
or friends they
lost this year.
随着
2018
年临近结束，很多人都在思念他们今年过
世的亲人或朋友。
When
Americans want to say they are sorry about
someone's loss, they offer their
sympathies
or
condolences.
And
so,
our
condolences
to
you
for
anyone
you
are
mourning.
当美国人想说对某人的离世感到难过时，
他们会表示同情或慰唁
。
所以对你哀悼
的那个人，我们也要向你表示慰唁。
Today we want to
note some public figures all of us lost over the
past 12 months.
今天我们想要特别提到过去
1
年里离世的那些公众人物。
Actors who died this year include
Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the 1978
film Superman and three other Superman
movies.
今年过世的演员有玛葛
·
姬黛，她在
1978
年的电影《
超人》及其它
3
部超人电影
中扮演露易
丝
·
连恩。
Verne Troyer was Mini Me in two Austin
Powers movies.
凡尔纳
·
特罗耶在两部《王牌大贱谍》电影中扮演
Mini
Me
。
Burt Reynolds was in movies and
television from the 1950s through the 2000s.
伯特
·
雷诺
兹参演了
20
世纪
50
年代到
21
世纪初的电影电视。
And Eunice Gayson was
James Bond's girlfriend in Bond's first two films.
而尤尼斯
·
盖森在前两部邦德电影中扮
演詹姆斯
·
邦德的女友。
Arthur Mitchell and Paul
Taylor were both dancers.
亚瑟
·
米切尔和保罗
·
泰勒都是舞者。
Neil Simon and
Ntozake Shange wrote plays. Ursula K. Le Guin,
V.S. Naipaul, Tom Wolf
and Philip Roth
wrote books.
尼尔
·
西
蒙和尼托扎克
·
尚吉都是编剧。娥苏拉
·
勒瑰恩、
V.S.
奈保尔、汤姆
·
沃尔夫
以及菲利普
·
罗斯都是作家。
Robert Indiana was an artist who made
the LOVE sign. Businesswoman Kate Spade
designed clothes. Gary Kurtz produced
the first Star Wars movie. Stan Lee invented
Spider-Man. And Paul Allen co-founded
the technology company Microsoft.
罗伯特
·
印第安纳是制作
LOVE
标志的艺术家。
女商人凯特
·
丝蓓设计服装。
加里
·
库
尔茨制作了第一部星球大战电影。斯坦李创造了蜘蛛侠。而保罗
·
艾伦参与共同
创建了微软科技公司。
Diplomat Kofi Annan was the
head of the United Nations, and singer Aretha
Franklin
was the queen of soul.
外交官科菲
·
安南担任过联合国秘书长，而歌手艾瑞莎
·
富兰克林是灵魂歌后。
Robin
Leach,
who
presented
Lifestyles
of
the
Rich
and
Famous,
signed
off
one
last
time. Chef Anthony
Bourdain ate his last meal. The Reverend Billy
Graham said his
final
prayer.
Former
U.S.
President
George
H.W.
Bush
joined
his
wife
of
73
years,
Barbara Bush. And physicist Stephen
Hawking disappeared into the universe.
推出《
Lifestyles of the Rich
and Famous
》电视节目的罗宾
·
里奇最后一次播音，厨
师安东尼
·
伯尔顿吃完最后一顿饭，比利
·
格雷厄姆牧师最后一次祷告，美
国前总
统老布什前去追随他
73
岁的亡
妻芭芭拉，
而物理学家斯蒂芬
·
霍金消
失在茫茫宇
宙。
I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.
凯丽
·
吉恩
·
凯丽报道。<
/p>
三、会手语的大猩猩科科去世了
Koko, the Gorilla Who Knew Sign
Language, Dies
Koko,
the
gorilla
who
became
famous
for
learning
sign
language,
has
died
in
the
United States.
以学习手语而闻名的大猩猩科科在美国去世。
The California-based
Gorilla Foundation that kept and studied Koko
announced that
she had passed away in
her sleep on Tuesday. She was 46 years old.
负责照料和研究科科的加州大猩猩基金会
(Gorilla <
/p>
Foundation)
宣布，科科于周二
在睡梦中去世。当时她
46
岁。
“Koko touched the lives of
millions as an ambassador for all gorillas and an
icon for
interspecies communication and
empathy,” the foundation said in a statement. “She
was beloved and will be deeply
missed.”
该基金会在一份声明中说
< br>:“
科科作为大猩猩的大使和跨物种间的沟通与交流，触
动了数百人的心。
”“
她是被爱着的，我们将深深地怀念她。<
/p>
”
Koko
was a western lowland gorilla born on July 4, 1971
at the San Francisco Zoo.
科
科是一只西部低地大猩猩，
1971
年
7
月
4
日出生在旧金山动物园。
The very next
year, Koko began working with Dr. Francine
Patterson, who taught her
American
Sign
Language.
Her
keepers
said
Koko
also
understood
some
spoken
English.
第
二年，科科开始与弗朗辛
·
帕特森
(F
rancine
Patterson)
博士合作，后者教她美
国
手语。她的饲养员说科科也懂一些英语口语。
The
teaching
experiment
became
part
of
a
larger
project
at
California's
Stanford
University in 1974.
1974
年，这个教学实验成为加州斯坦福大学一个更大项目的一部分。
The
Stanford
project
later
expanded
to
include
another
western
lowland
gorilla,
named Michael, who
also learned sign language.
后来，
< br>斯坦福大学的项目多加了另一只西部低地大猩猩，
名叫迈克尔，
< br>他也学习
了手语。
Five
years
later,
the
Gorilla
Foundation
was
created
in
the
Santa
Cruz
Mountains,
about 40
kilometers south of San Francisco.
五年后，大猩猩基金会在旧金山以南约
40
公
里的圣克鲁斯山脉建立。
The
two
gorillas
were
moved
there.
Michael
died
in
2000.
Another
gorilla
named
Ndume lived with Koko at the
foundation.
那两只大猩猩被转移到了那里。
迈克
尔在
2000
年去世。
另一只叫
Ndume
的大猩
猩和科科一起住在基金会。
Researchers
say
he
does
not
have
the
same
sign
language
abilities
as
Koko
and
Michael.
研究人员说，他没有像科科和迈克尔那样的手语能力。
Koko
appeared
in
many films
and
television
documentaries.
She
appeared
twice
in
the
magazine National Geographic.
< br>科科出现在许多电影和电视纪录片中。她两次出现在《国家地理》杂志上。
Her
1978
cover
showed
a
photograph
Koko
had
taken
of
herself
in
a
mirror.
The
second issue, in 1985, included the
story of Koko and her pet cat, named All Ball.
在
1978
年的封面上展示了科科在镜子里拍下的照片。
1985
年的第二
期，包括科
科和她的宠物猫
“All
Ball”
的故事。
The
story
led
to
the
popular
book
“Koko's
Kitten,”
which
can
be
found
in
many
schools
worldwide.
这个故事引发了畅销书
《科科的小猫》
，
这本书在世界各地的许多学校都能找到。
In
1998,
Koko
appeared
on
the
internet
in
what
researchers
called
the
first
“interspecies chat.”
1998
年，科科出现在互联网上，研究人员称之为第一次
< br>“
跨物种间聊天
”
。
The gorilla used the
event to communicate through an interpreter to
directly answer
questions from fans.
这只大猩猩通过翻译直接回答了粉丝的提问。
In
2001,
Koko
got
publicity
again
when
actor
Robin
Williams
went
to
visit
her
and
talked about how moved he was by the
experience.
2001
年，当演员罗宾
·
威廉姆斯
(Robi
n
Williams)
去拜访科科时，科科再次引起了
公众的关注，并谈到了他对这次经历的感动。
“We shared something
extraordinary –
laughter,”
the late actor said at the time.
“
我们分享了一些不同寻常的东西
——
笑声，
”
这位已故的演员当时说。
< br>
Western lowland
gorillas are threatened in their native
environment of central Africa.
西部低地大猩猩在他们的本土环境中受到威胁。
The Gorilla Foundation says
it will continue to honor Koko by continuing to
carry out
ongoing projects.
大猩猩基金会说，它将继续执行正在进行的项目，以纪念科科。
These
include
conservation
efforts
in
Africa
and
expanding
the
Maui
Great
Ape
Sanctuary in Hawaii.
其中包括在非洲
进行保护工作，以及在夏威夷扩大毛伊岛大型猿类保护区。
In
addition,
the
foundation
says
it
plans
to
create
a
sign
language
computer
app
including Koko that is
designed to help gorillas and children alike.
此外，
该基金会表示，
计划开发一款包括科科在
内的手语电脑应用，
旨在帮助大
猩猩和儿童。
< br>
I'm Bryan Lynn.
我是布莱恩
·
林恩。
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