你与莎士比亚之间也许只隔一款APP
New ShakeSpeak app lets Shakespeare fans text like the Bard
A new app which adds a Shakespearean touch to your text messaging, has been launched lately to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death and as part of a tourism drive for the capital, called 'Fans of London'.
为了纪念诗人莎士比亚逝世400周年,近日推出了一款新型应用,可以给你的短信赋予莎士比亚的风格,这也是英国首都举办"伦敦粉丝"活动促进旅游业发展的一项举措.
Working with VisitLondon.com, the official visitor guide for the capital, ShakeSpeak has been developed by software company SwiftKey, best known for their language prediction app. By analysing the Complete Works of Shakespeare they developed an app that helps turn your text messages into Shakespearean prose by predicting the playwright's best known phrases.
这款名为ShakeSpeak的应用由以语言预测应用著称的软件公司SwiftKey和伦敦官方游客指南网站VisitLondon.com合作开发而成.通过分析《莎士比亚全集》,这款应用可以预测该使用莎士比亚的哪句名言,从而把你的短信变成莎翁的诗句.
Swiftkey's app, which is available to download free of charge, allows you to simply type the first word or two of a famous Shakespearean quote and the technology will do the rest. For example:
这款应用现在可以免费下载,你只要打出莎翁名言的前一两个单词,技术就会帮你实现剩下的部分.比如：
To be or not to be, that is the question
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players
如果你打出"to be or",应用就会提醒你接下来用"not to be, that is the question"（意为生存还是毁灭,这是一个问题）.如果你打出"that which",它就会提醒你"we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"（意为玫瑰不叫玫瑰,依然芳香如故）.
