你與莎士比亞之間也許只隔一款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'.
為了紀念詩人莎士比亞逝世400周年,近日推出了一款新型應用,可以給你的短信賦予莎士比亞的風格,這也是英國首都舉辦"倫敦粉絲"活動促進旅游業發展的一項舉措.
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.
這款名為ShakeSpeak的應用由以語言預測應用著稱的軟件公司SwiftKey和倫敦官方游客指南網站VisitLondon.com合作開發而成.通過分析《莎士比亞全集》,這款應用可以預測該使用莎士比亞的哪句名言,從而把你的短信變成莎翁的詩句.
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:
這款應用現在可以免費下載,你只要打出莎翁名言的前一兩個單詞,技術就會幫你實現剩下的部分.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",應用就會提醒你接下來用"not to be, that is the question"（意為生存還是毀滅,這是一個問題）.如果你打出"that which",它就會提醒你"we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"（意為玫瑰不叫玫瑰,依然芳香如故）.
