VOA常速英语:Technology Rescues Dying Languages

at risk有危险
例句：The disease is spreading, and all children under five are at risk.
这疾病在蔓延, 五岁以下的小孩都有危险。
by the end of到…为止
例句：He had finished his great works by the end of 1980.
到1980年底, 他已完成了他的巨著。

2. That works out to one language going extinct every two weeks.

work out解决, 解答; 计算出
例句：The charge for labor works out at almost ten shillings an hour.
付给工人的费用算下来每小时差不多十先令。

3. Now, some defenders are turning to technology in hopes of reversing that trend.

turn to求助于
例句：She often turns to the book for guidance.
她经常参考那本书。

4. Members of the Siletz tribe on the Oregon coast take pride in a language they say "is as old as time itself."

take pride in以…为傲
例句：We take pride in our craftsmanship.
我们为自己的手艺感到自豪。

5. We had linguists that had come in and done assessments of our people and our language and they labeled it - I'll never forget this term - 'moribund,' meaning it was headed for the ash heap of history.

head for引向好〔坏〕结果
例句：It looks as if the firm is heading for another record year.
看来今年公司又要创纪录。

6. However, according to Harrison, language activists can now go on the offensive with modern digital tools such as iPhone apps, YouTube videos and Facebook pages devoted to disappearing tongues.

devote to把…专用于, 完全用于(某事或做某事)
例句：The newspaper devotes two pages to comics.
报纸用两页版面来刊登漫画。

7. Part of their strategy is to get Microsoft's help in translating its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Office software into Inuktitut.

translate into (把…)翻译成…
例句：I can read Spanish but can't translate into it.
我能阅读西班牙语, 但不能翻译成西班牙语。

8. "Nothing takes the place of speakers speaking to other speakers and to people who are learning, he says.”

take the place of代替
例句：By and by electricity will take the place of coal.
不久以后, 电将取代煤。