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　　英語(yǔ)課外閱讀1

　　Cory Wilbur, a 25-year-old software engineer in Boston, never used to read much. He barelycracked a book in college and would read one or two a year on vacation, at most.

　　25歲的波士頓軟件工程師科里•威爾伯(Cory Wilbur)之前閱讀量一直不大。上大學(xué)時(shí)就很少翻書(shū)，一年最多也就在放假時(shí)讀上一兩本。

　　But in the past year, he's finished 10 books, including Dan Brown's 'Inferno,' Walter Isaacson'sbiography of Steve Jobs and George R.R. Martin's fantasy series 'A Song of Ice and Fire.' Helistens to audio books in snippets throughout the day on his iPhone during his morning workout, on his 20-minute commute to work, and while he's cooking dinner or cleaning up. Before hefalls asleep, he switches to an e-book of the same story on his Kindle, and starts reading rightwhere the narrator left off.

　　但在過(guò)去一年，他“讀”完了10本書(shū)，包括丹•布朗(Dan Brown)的《煉獄》(Inferno)，瓦爾特•艾薩克森(Walter Isaacson)為史蒂夫•喬布斯(Steve Jobs)寫(xiě)的傳記，還有喬治•馬丁(George R.R. Martin)的系列奇幻小說(shuō)《冰與火之歌》(A Song of Ice and Fire)。早上鍛煉的時(shí)候，20分鐘的上班路上，做晚飯或打掃衛(wèi)生的時(shí)候，他一小段一小段地聽(tīng)iPhone上的有聲書(shū)。入睡前，他改看同一個(gè)故事在Kindle上的電子書(shū)，從朗讀者停下來(lái)的地方接著開(kāi)始閱讀。

　　'I fly through a lot more books than I used to,' Mr. Wilbur said.

　　威爾伯說(shuō)：“我瀏覽的書(shū)比過(guò)去多多了。”

　　The digital revolution may have dealt a heavy blow to print, but it is boosting literacy in otherunexpected ways by fueling the explosive growth of audio books.

　　數(shù)字革命或許已給印刷業(yè)造成了沉重的打擊，但它推進(jìn)有聲書(shū)的爆發(fā)式增長(zhǎng)，通過(guò)其他意想不到的方式提高了人們的文化水平。

　　Once a static niche for aficionados renting clunky cassettes or CDs for their commutes, audiobooks have gone mass-market. Sales have jumped by double digits in recent years. Shifts indigital technology have broadened the pool of potential listeners to include anyone with asmartphone.

　　有聲書(shū)曾經(jīng)是一種靜態(tài)、小眾的東西，供發(fā)燒友們租借笨重的磁帶或CD在上下班通勤時(shí)聽(tīng)。現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)變得大眾化。近幾年其銷(xiāo)量實(shí)現(xiàn)了兩位數(shù)增長(zhǎng)。數(shù)字技術(shù)的變化擴(kuò)大了潛在聽(tīng)眾群體，任何人只要有一部智能手機(jī)，都是這個(gè)群體的一員。

　　At the same time, publishers are investing six-figure sums in splashy productions with dozensof narrators. Using the Netflix model, some audio book producers have even startedexperimenting with original works written exclusively as audio productions, ranging from full-cast dramatizations in the style of old school radio plays, complete with music and soundeffects, to young adult novels, thrillers and multipart science fiction epics.

　　與此同時(shí)，出版商投入六位數(shù)的資金制作由數(shù)十位朗誦者誦讀的豪華作品。一些有聲書(shū)制作商借助Netflix的模式，已經(jīng)開(kāi)始試驗(yàn)專(zhuān)為制作有聲作品而寫(xiě)的原創(chuàng)作品，既有演員齊全(full-cast)、帶音樂(lè)和音效、按老式廣播劇風(fēng)格制作的改編劇，也有青少年小說(shuō)、驚險(xiǎn)小說(shuō)、科幻史詩(shī)系列等。

　　'It's one of the few times in history that technology has reinvigorated an art form rather thancrushing it,' said Max Brooks, author of the zombie novel 'World War Z,' which was released inMay ahead of the Brad Pitt movie in an elaborate new audio edition with 40 cast members, including Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Martin Scorsese. It sold 60,000 CDs and digital-audiocopies. 'Now, because there is such demand and the production value is so inexpensive, itopens the door for more creative storytelling.' he said.

　　僵尸小說(shuō)《末日之戰(zhàn)》(World War Z)作者馬克斯•布魯克斯(Max Brooks)說(shuō)：“技術(shù)非但沒(méi)有毀滅、反倒是復(fù)興了一種藝術(shù)形式，這在歷史上并不多見(jiàn)，有聲書(shū)便是其一。”今年5月，《末日之戰(zhàn)》在布拉德•皮特(BradPitt)主演的同名電影之前發(fā)布了一個(gè)精雕細(xì)琢的有聲版，演員達(dá)40位，有艾倫•艾爾達(dá)(Alan Alda)、約翰•圖爾圖羅(John Turturro)、馬丁•西科塞斯(Martin Scorsese)等。這個(gè)版本賣(mài)出了6萬(wàn)份CD和數(shù)字音頻。布魯克斯說(shuō)：“現(xiàn)在有這種需求，生產(chǎn)成本又如此便宜，這就為更多故事的創(chuàng)作創(chuàng)造了條件。”

　　Digital innovation isn't just changing the way audio books are created, packaged and sold. It'sstarting to reshape the way readers consume literature, creating a new breed of literaryomnivores who see narrated books and text as interchangeable. Last year, the audio bookproducer and retailer Audible unveiled a long-awaited syncing feature that allows book lovers toswitch seamlessly between an e-book and a digital audio book, picking up the story at preciselythe same sentence.

　　數(shù)字創(chuàng)新改變的不只是有聲書(shū)的創(chuàng)作、包裝和出售方式，它也開(kāi)始改變讀者消費(fèi)文學(xué)的方式，培育了一批新的文學(xué)愛(ài)好者。在這些愛(ài)好者看來(lái)，朗誦圖書(shū)和文本圖書(shū)是互通的。去年，制作并零售有聲書(shū)的Audible公司發(fā)布了人們期待已久的一項(xiàng)同步功能。利用這一功能，愛(ài)書(shū)人可以在電子書(shū)和數(shù)字有聲書(shū)之間無(wú)縫切換，撿起同一句話(huà)繼續(xù)閱讀，不差分毫。

　　So far, Audible, which is owned by Amazon, has paired some 26,000 ebooks with professionalnarrations. The company is adding more than 1,000 titles a month and aims to eventuallybring the number to close to 100,000.

　　到目前為止，身為亞馬遜(Amazon)旗下公司的Audible已將大約2.6萬(wàn)種電子書(shū)搭配了專(zhuān)業(yè)朗誦。該公司一個(gè)月新推有聲書(shū)1,000多種，最終目標(biāo)是推出接近10萬(wàn)種。

　　'We're moving toward a media-agnostic consumer who doesn't think of the difference betweentextual and visual and auditory experience,' says Don Katz, Audible's founder and CEO. 'It's thestory, and it is there for you in the way you want it.'

　　Audible創(chuàng)始人、CEO唐•卡茨(Don Katz)說(shuō)：“我們?cè)诮咏蝗簾o(wú)視介質(zhì)、不去考慮文本、視覺(jué)、聽(tīng)覺(jué)體驗(yàn)之區(qū)別的消費(fèi)者。”他說(shuō)：“他們關(guān)心的是故事，而故事就在那里，你想它是什么樣子它就是什么樣子。”

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