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“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。
第 206 周训练的主题为：经济学人对2019年的展望：What will be the biggest stories of 2019，大家在训练 时候可以做一个对照，看看再过去一年，那些事情是自己关注的，这些事件给自己留下了怎样的印象。 练习步骤：1. 先自己播放一遍视频，做一遍recall，发群语音；之后再播放一遍并重新发一遍复述的语音；2. 对照原文文稿，梳理文章内容，积累词汇和句式；3.再做一到两遍，用刚刚学过的表达讲故事。
1223 Power Dressing 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. Rich Mahoney: The suit that we’re introducing in 2019 is actually an assist suit, so you have to be moving. Think of it kind of like an electric bicycle, you’re pedaling and getting extra power. Narrator: Part of the wearable robotics revolution, the suit is made up of battery-powered muscle packs, which contract just like a human muscle to boost the wearer’s strength. Rich Mahoney: Those robotic muscles that we’re providing actually turn on and provide strength to the body in a coordinated way, when you need it, while you’re moving. Narrator: 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. Rich Mahoney: In Japan, the average age of a construction worker is 48, so there’s lots of demand for the labor workforce. Narrator: 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. Dr. Catherine Holloway: The challenge globally is how do we get such technologies to everybody? It doesn’t happen in the way that, say, for example, formula one technology eventually trickles down into the average car.
take on a whole new meaning: 被重新定义
hits the market: 推出市场
Not so much high fashion as high tech…: 跟它的科技感比起来，这种衣服并不时尚；科技感有余，时尚感不足；
built-in power内置能量；动力
wearable robotics revolution: 可穿戴机械革命
battery-powered muscle packs: 电池驱动的肌肉块
there’s no shortage of potential markets 不愁没有市场潜力
Labor workforce: 体力劳动者
aching limbs: 腿疼；酸痛的四肢；
overstretched: to do more than you are capable of; to make somebody/ something do more than they are capable of；overstretched muscles 过度疲劳的肌肉; overstretched health services：超负荷的医疗服务业。
don’t come cheap：并不便宜
something retails for…: 零售定价是
bespoke tailored suit：定制西服
Trickle-down: the theory that if the richest people in society become richer, this will have a good effect on poorer people as well, for example by creating more jobs下层受惠论，滴漏理论（富者愈富应能惠及穷人）；Trickle down into (verb)：惠及大众
ease the burden on：减轻负担
1224 Cheaper Flight Narrator: 2019 will be the year low-cost, long-haul travel takes off. You’ll be able to buy a 10,000-mile flight from London to Sydney for around $350. And, this is why. 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. Charles Read: Over the next 20 years, the number of Chinese air passengers is set to triple. Narrator: Beijing already has one of the world’s biggest airports. And, for China, this new mega-hub will send an important message to the world. Charles Read: The opening of Daxing Airport is a symbol that the center of the world’s economy has shifted east to China. Narrator: Rivaling Daxing, as a national symbol of global prestige, will be a new mega-hub airport in Istanbul. Opened in 2018, it covers a staggering 26 square miles, an area larger than the island of Manhattan. And, in 2019, consumers will again be the beneficiaries of a state-sponsored economic push. Kerry Reals: The Turkish government has actually been giving fuel subsidies to its airlines to try and help bring the tourism industry back. Narrator: 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. Kerry Reals: 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.
2019 will be the year low-cost, long-haul travel takes off.
Takes off: to suddenly start to be successful or popular突然开始成功；开始走红
Low-cost, long-haul travel 低价长途旅行
Flight from London to Sydney伦敦到悉尼的飞机
Mega-hub airport：枢纽机场（也称airline hub）是航空公司用来中转旅客至下一个目的地的中停点。这是一个轴辐路网理论（hub and spoke model）的概念，航空公司航线多由枢纽机场为中心，向外联结各地。
Be set to: to start working or dealing with something in an energetic and determined way干劲十足地开始做；毅然开始
Bring the tourism industry back: 振兴旅游业
With cost passed down to passengers: 成本转嫁给乘客
Offset (carbon): to use one cost, payment or situation in order to cancel or reduce the effect of another抵消；弥补；补偿
Eg. Prices have risen in order to offset the increased cost of materials. 为补偿原料成本的增加而提高了价格。
Airfares: 机票费
1225 LGBT “We discovered that Americans consider homosexuality more harmful to society than adultery, abortion, or prostitution.” Narrator: In 2019, LGBT communities will mark the anniversary of a seminal event. It will be 50 years since patrons at New York gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, resisted police attempts to arrest them. The resulting Stonewall Riots kick-started the modern gay-rights movement. Téa Braun: I think anniversaries like the Stonewall Riots are important because they remind us just how far we’ve come, but also how much change is still needed because those sorts of repressions and violence is still happening in much of the world.
Narrator: In many countries, the laws that continue to allow intolerance and inequality have their roots in religion. Téa Braun: These laws originate from two main sources, Sharia law, and the British colonial exportation of Christian principles.
Narrator: But, one former British colony has given hope to the global movement for change. In 2018, India decriminalized homosexuality, and gay-rights campaigners hope 2019 will be the year other former British colonies follow suit. In February, Kenya’s high court will rule on whether to decriminalize same-sex intimacy, which is currently punishable with up to 14 years in prison. Njeri Gateru: Decriminalization would mean, for the first time, LGBT Kenyans would start to participate within the Kenyan democracy as equals. We’re going to be just a step closer to figuring out how an equal Kenya looks like.
Narrator: Campaigners hope that decriminalization could start a domino effect across Africa. Téa Braun: I think it will be a tipping point for Africa. It will be the beginning of the unraveling of these laws. Narrator: The Stonewall rioters fought for the right to be free. And, fundamental human rights will remain at the top of the agenda for sexual and gender freedom in 2019.
Adultery: sex between a married man or woman and someone he or she is not married to通奸（行为）
Mark the anniversary of a seminal event
Seminal: containing important new ideas and having a great influence on later work具有开拓性的；有深远影响的
句式：They remind us just how far we’ve come, but also how much change is still needed because…
Repressions: the use of force or violence to control a group of people（尤指通过武力进行的）镇压，压制
Have roots in religion: 根源在于
Sharia law: 伊斯兰教教法
British colonial exportation of Christian principles: 英国殖民时输出的基督教条
As equals: someone or something that has the same importance as someone or something else and deserves the same treatment（应获得同等待遇的）同等的人或物；treat somebody as equals
We are going to be just a step closer to doing something：我们要离……更近一步了
A tipping point: the point at which the number of small changes over a period of time reaches a level where a further small change has a sudden and very great effect on a system or leads to an idea suddenly spreading quickly among a large number of people（个案积累终成大趋势的）引爆点，爆发点
Unravelling of these laws: (of a system, plan, relationship, etc.系统、计划、关系等)to start to fail or no longer stay together as a whole解体；崩溃；瓦解
Remain at the top of the agenda for…仍然是重点/要务
1226 Driverless Car Tom Standage: In 2019, people are actually gonna be paying to take robo-taxis in some cities in America, at least. So, this is sort of science fiction that’s gonna become science fact. Narrator: With GM launching its driverless taxi service, and Waymo expanding its robo-taxis to new cities, 2019 will be the year the driverless-car revolution hits the road.
Kyle Vogt: So, 2019 is a race to the starting line. I think what gets interesting is when this technology starts to scale up, reach more cities, and ultimately, more people have access to this really great technology.
Narrator: It was hit 1980’s TV show Knight Rider that popularized self-driving cars controlled by artificial intelligence. Since then, billions of dollars of investment have fueled the drive to turn the idea into reality. Dubai has committed to a quarter of all trips being driverless by 2030. And, the driverless-car industry will be worth a predicted $550 billion by 2026. Narrator: But the advance of driverless cars could be held up by a red flag. As in March of 2018, the first person was killed by a self-driving car.
Tom Standage: At the moment, about 40,000 people are killed on the roads, in America alone, each year. So, imagine if you improved safety by 99%, so you then are talking about 400 road deaths a year. I think that would still be quite a hard sell. That’s somebody being killed by a robo-taxi every day. Narrator: But manufacturers are confident that the inevitable progress of technology will win over the skeptics. Kyle Vogt: There is no cap on what a computer could do in terms of safety, they’ll just get better and better every year.
Robo-taxis: 自动驾驶出租车；后文还出现意思相近的词有：driverless taxi/car；self-driving cars (controlled by artificial intelligence)；
2019 is a race to the starting line. 2019年，大家都站在了无人驾驶汽车大战的起跑线上。
turn the idea into reality：把想法变为现实
A quarter of all trips being driverless by 2030: 在2030年之前无人驾驶达到25%的覆盖率
red flag: 示警；危险的信号；The term red flag could mean either a literal flag used for signaling or, as a metaphor, a sign of some particular problem requiring attention.
Be held up by: delay
Hard sell: a policy or technique of aggressive salesmanship or advertising; 强卖；硬性推销；难以销售
The inevitable progress of technology will win over the skeptics.
win over：争取；信服；说服
There is no cap on what a computer could do in terms of safety. 计算机在安全上能做的没有上限。
