Advanced Week 162

写在前面的话

“ScalersTalk 口译进阶小组”的前身是“ScalersTalk 交传小组”，成立于 2015 年 2 月，现阶段，小组继续专注高级阶段的交替传译与同声传译训练，在巩固语言基本功的同时训练各类口译技能，从而为承担正式场合的口译打下坚实基础。

本周复盘说明

第 162 周训练材料选自 The economist 和 speech repository 的一系列训练材料，目的在于提升会口译员培训质量。小组成员利用该材料练习了复述、交替传译和限时视译，并学习原文的词汇、表达和句型句式。设备建议：你需要电脑或手机播放音频、手机发送语音。本日志整理的是复述材料 The World in 2019 (I) 的部分内容。

第 162 周——知识点整理

段落一

In 2019, power dressing will take on a whole new meaning, when this strange-looking clothing hits the market. Not so much high fashion as high tech, it’s a suit with built-in power that will literally get people moving.

解析

• take on: to begin to have a particular quality, appearance, etc. 呈现

• hit the market 上市；打入市场

• high fashion = high style: the latest in trendsetting fashion or design, usually intended for or adopted by an exclusive clientele 前沿时尚

• high tech: using the most advanced and developed machines and methods 前沿技术

• built-in: if a place or piece of equipment has built-in objects, they are permanently attached and cannot be easily removed 内置的；固有的

段落二

With the global population of over 60’s expected to more than double by 2050, and retirement age increasing, there’s no shortage of potential markets. In Japan, the average age of a construction worker is 48, so there’s lots of demand for the labor workforce. But, don’t expect the suits to ease the burden on aching limbs and overstretched health services any time soon. As these suits don’t come cheap. According to the manufacturer, they’ll retail for around the cost of a bespoke tailored suit.

解析

• 第一句的with引导了两个伴随状语，第一个状语是sth expected to do，表示将要发生的事；第二个是sth doing，表示正在发生的事。

• there’s no shortage of potential markets = there’s lots of demand for

• don’t expect … any time soon 不要期待……会很快发生

• ... don’t come cheap ……卖得不便宜

• overstretched: not having enough money, people, equipment, etc 这里是指医疗服务短缺

• retail at / for sth: to be sold at a particular price 以……价位出售

• bespoke: made specially, according to the needs of an individual customer; tailored: describes a piece of clothing that is shaped to fit a person's body closely; a bespoke suit 一套定做的衣服; a bespoke tailor 做定做衣服的裁缝

段落三

The world will boast two new state-of-the-art mega-hub airports, and competition between them will drive down the cost of flying. Daxing Airport, outside Beijing, is due to open in 2019, and will feed growing demand for air travel in China. Over the next 20 years, the number of Chinese air passengers is set to triple.

解析

• boast: to possess (sth to be proud of) 有（引以为荣的事物）

• state-of-the-art: using the most modern and recently developed methods, materials, or knowledge 最高水准的

• be due to do sth 按期该做某事;预定要做某事

• feed / meet the demand for sth 满足对……的需求

• be set for sth / to do sth: likely to do sth; ready for sth or to do sth ( 这里的set是形容词，意思是 ready and prepared; likely )

段落四

But the low fares offered by competition between these hubs could be short-lived. In a few years, many airlines will begin offsetting their carbon, with the costs potentially passed down to passengers. You could describe 2019, perhaps, as being the year to fly, because who knows what’s gonna happen to airfares when the airlines actually have to start paying to offset their emissions.

解析

• short-lived: existing or happening for only a short time 短命的；短暂的；一时的

• offset: to balance one influence against an opposing influence, so that there is no great difference as a result 抵消，补偿；A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere.

• pass down to: to give or teach sth to your children or people younger than you, who will then give or teach it to those who live after them, and so on 传递给

• airfare: the price of a journey by plane 机票价格