Name: 6分鐘英語。連接偏遠社區 (6 Minute English: Connecting remote communities)
Uploaded: 2022-08-11T16:50:52.000Z
Duration: 6 min 20 s

Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Neil.

你好。這裡是BBC學習英語的6分鐘英語。我是Neil。

If you’re old enough to remember the early days

如果你足夠老，還記得早期的日子

of dial-up internet then  you’ll know the unforgettable

撥號上網的時候，你就會知道那令人難以忘懷的

sound of the ‘handshake’, the clicks and squeaks

your computer made as it struggled to connect

你的電腦在掙扎著連接時發出的聲音

to the internet through the telephone line.

Yes, I remember that strange noise! Dial-up

是的，我記得那個奇怪的聲音撥號上網

internet was slow and websites took forever

to load. And because you couldn’t use both

來加載。而且因為你不能同時使用

the internet and the telephone at the same time,

this was usually followed by someone shouting,

“Get off the computer, I’m making a phone call!”

In the thirty years since then, the internet has

發生了巨大的變化。纖維光學和

broadband have created superfast internet

speeds and an interconnected online world,

速度和一個相互聯繫的網絡世界。

where physical distances between people are

a situation expressed in the  phrase, the global village.

全球村這一短語所表達的情況。

But take a closer look and you’ll still find

connection or no internet  at all. In this programme

聯網或根本沒有互聯網。在這個方案中

we’ll be finding out how some communities

are working together to fix their internet

connection problems for the benefit of local

為了當地人的利益，連接問題。

people. And, of course, we’ll be learning some

But before that I have a question for you, Sam.

但在此之前，我有一個問題要問你，山姆。

We’ve been talking about the early days of the

internet, but do you know the name of the first

ever internet browser, the engine for searching

OK, Sam. We’ll find out the answer later.

好吧，山姆。我們以後會找到答案的。

You might think its people living in the most

remote and isolated places with the greatest

difficulty getting online, but that’s not always

true. Even here in the UK  people struggle to connect,

確實如此。即使在英國這裡，人們也在努力聯繫。

包括英國廣播公司的聽眾凱蒂，她說

explained her problem to BBC World Service

她向BBC世界頻道解釋了她的問題

Hi, I’m Katie. I live in Dorset in England.

嗨，我是凱蒂。我住在英格蘭的多塞特。

Our internet can be quite spasmodic here,

我們這裡的互聯網可能很不穩定。

and I think that that’s due to most of our

underground cabling is very old and somewhat

Katie lives in Dorset, a rural part of south-west

凱蒂住在多塞特，一個西南部的農村地區。

England. She describes her internet connection

as spasmodic – suddenly working but only for

作為痙攣性的--突然工作，但只為

短時間內，而且不是以常規方式。

She thinks this is because her internet cables

are dodgy, slang for bad or untrustworthy.

是dodgy，俚語，意思是壞的或不值得信賴的。

A dodgy internet connection might be irritating,

糟糕的網絡連接可能會讓人惱火。

but in other parts of the world the consequences

can be more serious. Aamer Hayat is farmer who

可能更嚴重。阿默爾-哈亞特是農民，他

lives in the Pakistani  Punjab, one of the country’s

他住在巴基斯坦旁遮普省，是該國最重要的地區之一。

most fertile regions, but also one of the least

最肥沃的地區，但也是最不發達的地區之一。

connected. His village is a three-hour drive

有聯繫。他的村莊有三小時的車程

from the nearest town, and he can’t make a

For Aamer, basic weather information like

對Aamer來說，基本的天氣資訊如

difference between his  crops succeeding or failing.

他的莊稼是成功還是失敗的區別。

Without the internet he doesn’t have a reliable

沒有互聯網，他就沒有一個可靠的

weather report, so the villagers decided to

build their own fifty-metre-high telephone

建立他們自己的五十米高的電話

transmission tower, linking a network of five

villages to the internet. Here is Aamer talking

村莊到互聯網。以下是阿默爾的談話

to BBC World Service programme, Digital Planet…

英國廣播公司世界服務節目《數字星球》...

We used to do conventional farming like just

我們以前做的是傳統的農業，比如說只是

Now, I’m using the latest technologies to have

現在，我正在使用最新的技術來擁有

gadgets available with us and taking information

我們提供的小工具和採取的資訊

right from the horse’s mouth through internet

通過互聯網從馬嘴裡得到的資訊

So, this is what I’m doing in my farm practices.

是以，這就是我在農場實踐中所做的。

Before the community-built tower brought the

internet to his village, Aamer got his weather

阿默爾在他的村子裡通過互聯網得到了他的天氣預報。

report by word-of-mouth - information passed

Now, there’s stable internet that works thanks

現在，有了穩定的互聯網，可以工作了，謝謝

to a tower high enough to pick up a telephone

到一個足夠高的塔，可以接聽電話

signal which it then sends into the villages via

信號，然後通過以下方式將其送入村莊

solar-powered receivers – a type of gadget,

This means Aamer now gets his weather report

這意味著Aamer現在得到了他的天氣報告

straight from the horse's mouth, an idiom meaning

直截了當，一個成語的意思是指

from a reliable source, or from someone who

從一個可靠的來源，或從一個人

knows what they’re talking about. The internet

brings reliable climatic information, which

means a good harvest not just for Aamer and

意味著不僅是Aamer和Burberry的豐收。

his family, but for all the families living in the

他的家庭，但對於所有生活在該地區的家庭來說

It’s a great example of community action, and

這是社區行動的一個偉大範例，而且

of people looking after each other – something

人與人之間的相互照應--這一點

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6分鐘英語。連接偏遠社區 (6 Minute English: Connecting remote communities)

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