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bbc learning english story of the week 每周一报 16 january 2013 ：whistling language 口哨语
transcript 英语文字稿带中文翻译:
after almost dying out in the 1970s, a kind of whistling language is now undergoing a revival.
一种在 70 年代期间几乎消失的口哨语如今正在重新振兴起来。
silbo gomero, as it's known, has become a compulsory subject in one school in spain's canary islands.
被称为 silbo gomero 的口哨语已被西班牙加那利群岛的一所学校列入必修课程。
the whistling approximates the sounds of the spanish language.
这种口哨语是根据西班牙语的发音模仿出来的。
it can be heard from two miles away, and was used to communicate across valleys and ravines before the arrival of telephones.
哨音从几里地之外都能听到，在发明电话之前人们就是借此在山谷和峡谷之间进行交流的。
英语词汇:
dying out 正在消失的
undergoing a revival 趋于重振
compulsory 必需的，强迫的
approximates 模仿，接近于
ravines 峡谷