Britain's Queen Elizabeth presented her first ever Prize for Engineering - 英语听力
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
From VOA learning English
This is the technology report
这是科技报道
Britain's Queen Elizabeth
英国女王伊丽莎白
Presented her first ever prize for engineering
首次颁发了她的工程奖
Doing a ceremony in late June at Buckingham Palace
在六月底于白金汉宫举行的仪式上
Some hope the new award
有人希望这个新奖项
Will become the engineering equivalent of
能成为工程界的
The Nobel Prize for scientific achievement
诺贝尔科学成就奖
The award includes a prize of one million British pounds
该奖项包括一百万英镑的奖金
Or about 1 point 5 million dollar's
大约150万美元
It was presented to five men who invented the internet
该奖项颁发给了五位互联网的发明者
And developed the ways one third
并开发了全球三分之一人口使用的方式
Of the world's population uses it
世界人口的三分之一使用它
Americans Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf
美国人Robert Kahn和Vinton Cerf
And Frenchman Louis Pouzin invented the
以及法国人Louis Pouzin发明了
Internet's basic protocols
互联网的基本协议
They shared the award with Britain's Tim Berners-Lee
他们与英国的Tim Berners-Lee共同分享了这一奖项
Who created the Worldwide Web and American Marc Andreesen
谁创造了万维网,还有美国的马克·安德森
Who invented the first web browsing software
谁发明了第一个网页浏览软件
The morning after they received the award
他们获奖后的第二天早晨
Three of the winners spoke to
三位获奖者与
Hundreds of students from London schools
来自伦敦学校的数百名学生交谈
Robert Kahn said the
罗伯特·卡恩说
Internet is so much a part of people's lives
互联网已经成为人们生活中如此重要的一部分
They don't really think about it
他们甚至不再真正思考它
To me it's all about the protocols
对我来说,这一切都关乎协议
For making things work together
让事物协同工作
To link together networks computers application programs
将网络、计算机和应用程序连接在一起
Which a lot of people didn't
许多人并不认为
Think was a particularly good idea
这是一个特别好的主意
When we first started out on it
当我们最初开始着手时
But it's turned out to be very impactful worldwide
但它最终在全球范围内产生了巨大影响
Many of the students carry devices much more powerful
许多学生携带的设备比以往更加强大
Than the computers the men used to develop the internet
比那些用于开发互联网的计算机更重要的是人
They were joined by students in Swaziland
他们与斯威士兰的学生们携手
Who took part in the event by way of the internet
这些学生通过互联网参与了这一盛事
Vinton Cerf partner with Robert Kahn
Vinton Cerf与Robert Kahn合作
In developing the TCPIP protocol
共同开发了TCPIP协议
That makes internet traffic possible
这一协议使得互联网通信成为可能
He is now a vice president of google
他如今是谷歌的副总裁
The significance is not the winning
获奖的意义并不在于胜利本身
The significance is the existence of the prize at all
这一奖项的存在本身就意义非凡
Especially with her Majesty's name attached to it
尤其是冠以女王陛下的名义
It elevates engineering to the same level of visibility
它将工程学提升到了与诺贝尔奖同等的知名度
And recognition as the Nobel Prizes
和认可度
Both men say their satisfaction comes
两位获奖者表示,他们的满足感源于
From the wide use of the internet
互联网的广泛使用
And the fact that their basic
以及他们设计的
Technical architecture
基础技术架构
Is still a main part of it
仍然是其主要部分
But they noted the privacy and
但他们指出了隐私和
Security issues the internet has created
互联网带来的安全问题
These issues raised concern most
这些问题引起了极大的关注
Recently with news
尤其是最近有关
About US government surveillance
美国政府监控的新闻
Programs designed to fight terrorism
这些项目旨在打击恐怖主义
We are still in the middle of
我们仍处于其中
This rapid evolution of the
互联网及其应用的快速发展
Internet and it's applications
我们作为一个社会必须学习
And we are going to have to learn as a society
哪些事情是可以接受的,哪些是不可以的
Which things are acceptable and which things are not
我们应该禁止什么
What we should prohibit
以及我们应该因为什么而惩罚人们
And what things we should punish people for doing
这些并不是轻易就能解决的紧张关系
Those are not tensions that are just easily resolved
勾选方框,然后选择这种方式或那种方式
Check the box and proceed this way or that way
继续前进
They require constant attention
它们需要持续的关注
Especially in democratic societies
尤其是在民主社会中
Robert Kahn says technologies
Robert Kahn说技术
Have always had plusses and minuses
总是有利有弊
He says the internet is no different
他说互联网也不例外
But he also says that even after 40 years
但他也指出,即使过了40年
There is no foreseeable end to the demand
需求仍看不到尽头
For the technology that he and his co-winners developed
为了他和他的共同获奖者所开发的技术
And that's the technology report from VOA learning English
以上就是来自VOA学习英语的技术报道