Pentagon Tracks 'Santa's Progress'

大意
A program of tracking Santa Claus has become very popular on the Internet.

听写
For more than 15 centuries, the legend of Santa Claus has fascinated children the world over. And the Internet has now made it easier than ever to follow the progress of the jolly old man as he takes off from the North Pole on Christmas Eve and makes his rounds delivering gifts to boys and girls. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which normally uses as sphascatedsophisticated radars to track missiles, has been helping to track Santa’s progress every year since 1955. Now it has one of the most popular seasonal websites on the Internet, noratsantanoradsanta.org. A simple click on any region of the map gives a quick update on what is described as Santa’s progress. Complete with geographical information about the places he visits. Millions of Internet users have been login on to the website to see the special program which is made possible through private donations and Defense Department volunteers. Updates to the site are made every 5 minutes, and the so-called nor atad tracks Santa program has German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and English links.

生词
sophisticated (技术、产品等)复杂的,尖端的,高级的;微妙的。

翻译
15个多世纪以来,圣诞老人的传说一直吸引着全世界的孩子们。现在,互联网让人们跟随这个平安夜从南极而来,为孩子们赠送礼物的快乐老头更加容易了。一般作为高科技雷达追踪导弹的北美航天防御指挥系统从1955年开始用来寻找圣诞老人。现在,noradsanta.org已经成为互联网上最热门的时令性站点之一。只要用鼠标点一下地图上的任意区域,就可以看到对于圣诞老人所到地的地貌信息的迅速更新,这就是圣诞老人的行程。已经有上百万网友在这个网站注册观看这个由私人捐助和国防部志愿者支持运行的特别节目。网站每5分钟更新,这个所谓的norad追踪圣诞老人节目又德西法意日英6种语言版本的链接。

总结
听写的真好啊,果然我比较适合这种内容的ST……趁着早上网速快跑去那个网站看了一下,真的是个好可爱的东西呢!特别是日本的那段,竟然弄出一堆公式来计算圣诞老人的速度,然后发现他跑的比新干线还快,好好玩!而且日语版本还真的是日语解说啊,好专业的网站呐!

posted @ 2007-12-27 07:46 vivianliv86 阅读(14) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: 每日VOA 网摘收藏

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