托福阅读材料之冰岛大学生开发“防乱伦”安卓APP.docx

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读材料之冰岛大学生开发“防乱伦”安卓APP 出国英语考试有哪些 雅思6.5是什么水平 雅思阅读评分标准 托福阅读评分标准 雅思和托福的区别 You meet someone, theres chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: Whats your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin? 你见到某个人，你们之间产生化学反应，你会问几个初步的问题：你叫什么名字？你经常来这里吗？你是我的表亲吗？ In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins is a real risk. 作为一个只有32万人口的国家，冰岛人几乎都会有些远房亲戚关系，一不注意就有很高的风险亲吻到自己的表亲。 A new smartphone app is on hand to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest. The app lets users bump phones, and emits a warning alarm if they are closely related. Bump the app before you bump in bed, says the catchy slogan. 一种新的手机应用程序可以随时帮助你避免意外的乱伦。这个应用程序可以让使用者互相碰一下手机，如果你们的血缘关系很亲近的话，它就会发出警报。该应用的标语非常引人注意，写着：“在你们上床之前先碰一下此应用”。 Some are hailing it as a welcome solution to a very Icelandic form of social embarrassment. 有些人对这个应用的发明欢呼雀跃，这个应用将能解决了冰岛人特有的社会尴尬。 Everyone has heard the story of going to a family event and running into a girl you hooked up with some time ago, said Einar Magnusson, a graphic designer in Icelands capital, Reykjavik. “很多人都听过这样的故事：一个人在家庭聚会上遇到了自己前阵子钓到的姑娘，” 来自冰岛首都雷克雅未克的一个平面设计师艾纳-马格努森说。 Its not a good feeling when you realize that girl is a second cousin. People may think its funny, but (the app) is a necessity. “当你意识到那个女孩是你的远房表/堂兄妹时，这种感觉可不好受。人们可能认为这很有趣，但是（这个应用）很必要。” The Islendiga-App — App of Icelanders — is an idea that may only be possible in Iceland, where most of the population shares descent from a group of 9th-century Viking settlers, and where an online database holds genealogical details of almost the entire population. 这款专为冰岛人设计的应用软件 “冰岛的应用” 是一个只能在冰岛可行的想法，冰岛上大部分人的血统都源自于九世纪北欧移民者，而在线数据库保存着几乎所有人口的家谱资料。 The app was created by three University of Iceland software engineering students for a contest calling for new creative uses of the Islendingabok, or Book of Icelanders, an online database of residents and their family trees stretching back 1,200 yea