VOA慢速英语:Getting News From Around the World With Today’s Front Pages

We recently told you about a website called PastPages.org. It saves the homepages of seventy news websites from around the world every hour. That report led us to look for a website that saves images of newspapers from around the world.
最近，我们告诉您一家名为PastPages.org的网站。它每小时会保存下来世界各地70家新闻网站的主页。那篇报道让我们开始寻找一家保存世界各地报纸的图片版的网站。

We found Todays’ Front Pages, a site operated by The Newseum in Washington, DC. The Newseum is a museum that explores news reporting and the media. We visited The Newseum and spoke with its Senior Vice President, Paul Sparrow.
我们发现了Todays' Front Pages，一个由华盛顿哥伦比亚特区新闻博物馆运营的网站。新闻博物馆是一家探索新闻报道和媒体的博物馆。我们参观了新闻博物馆，并与其高级副总裁Paul Sparrow进行了交流。
 
PAUL SPARROW: “I think one of the most interesting things about newspapers is that they are a snapshot in time. They capture a moment when the people in that organization, in that newspaper, say ‘these are the most important stories that are affecting our community.’ And what that does is that it gives you a lens in which you can look at history from a very specific point of view.”
PAUL SPARROW：“我认为，关于报纸最有趣的事情之一是，他们是某个时间点的快照。他们捕获了这样一个瞬间，某机构或报纸讲述‘影响我们社会的最重要的事件。’而这给你一个镜头，让你可以从非常独特的视角来审视历史。”

Paul Sparrow says visitors to the website can choose to see all of its newspapers. Or they can look only at newspapers from one area of the world, such as Asia, Africa or South America.  
Paul Sparrow说，该网站的访问者可以看到所有的报纸，或者只看来自世界上某一个地区的报纸，如亚洲、亚洲或南美。

PAUL SPARROW: “One of the things that we do is we allow for people to search by region, so we have a map interface so you can, you know, roll over different areas of the map and you’ll see the newspapers from that area. People are very interested in that. We get comments all the time, that ‘Oh its great – put your cursor over anyplace in the world and see the papers from that area.’ You can also, we also list them sort of alphabetically by state and then by country. And then we have a gallery layout where you can just look at all the thumbnails and pick the ones that you like based on their visual presentation.”
PAUL SPARROW：“我们所做事情之一就是允许人们按地区搜索，所以我们有一个地图界面，你知道，你可以在地图的不同地区滚动鼠标，这样就能看到来自该地区的报纸。人们对此非常感兴趣。我们不断的得到人们的评价，‘这太好了--将你的光标放到世界任何地区，就能看到该地区的报纸。’我们还允许人们按照州和国家的字母顺序排序。然后我们有一个画廊式样的布局，在那里你可以看所有的缩略图，然后挑选出你喜欢的报纸的直观图像。”

Todays’ Front Pages does not archive, or save, front page images. But it does archive newspapers from historically-important dates such as November fifth, two thousand eight. That was one day after Barack Obama was elected president. Again, The Newseum’s Paul Sparrow.
Todays’ Front Pages并没有归档或保存头版图片。但它会归档历史重要日期的报纸，如2008年11月5日，这是奥巴马当选总统之后的一天。新闻博物馆的Paul Sparrow再次表示：

PAUL SPARROW: “When you look back at the historical newspapers in our collection, you see these amazing moments where the culture is revealed. If you look at like, in World War Two, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the headline is ‘Japs Attack.’ I mean, that’s a headline you would just never see in a paper today.
PAUL SPARROW：“当你回顾我们收集的历史性报纸，你可以看到文化显露的这些惊人时刻。如回顾二战中，偷袭珍珠港事件后的一天，标题是‘日本的进攻’。我的意思是，你再也不会在现今的报纸看到这样的标题。”

The website shows only the front pages of general-interest newspapers that publish daily. Student newspapers are not displayed. Some papers are not included because they do not have the technological ability to send their front pages electronically to the Newseum. And others simply choose not to do so.
该网站只显示每日出版的公共报纸的头版。不会展示学生报纸。有些报纸没被包含进来是因为他们没有发送电子头版的技术能力，而另一些报纸干脆选择不这样做。

The site displays the front pages of eight hundred thirty-six newspapers from ninety-three countries. It warns that “the front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors.”
该网站展示了来自93个国家的836家报纸的头版，并提醒说，“这些头版是原始的，是未经过编辑的。有些头版可能会含有被一些访客视为反感的材料。”

We have placed a link to Todays’ Front Pages on our website, VOAspecialenglish.com.
我们在我们的网站上放置了一个Todays’ Front Pages的链接，http://www.hxen.net 。

If you are in Washington, you can see many front pages from around the world on display inside and just outside The Newseum. Only about ten percent of the front pages the Newseum receives every day are displayed, but all eight hundred thirty-six are available online.
如果你是在华盛顿，你可以看到在新闻博物馆内外展示的很多来自世界各地的报纸头版。新闻博物馆每天只显示收到中约10%的头版新闻，但所有836家报纸的头版都会在网站上展示。