The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into children’s writing are anything to go by.
　　如果一项对儿童作文的研究结果可靠的话，那么比起狄更斯或莎士比亚等英国文坛巨匠，书面英语的未来受好莱坞电影的影响会更大。

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　　The analysis of 74,000 short stories found that their written work was littered with Americanisms, exclamation marks and references to celebrities.
　　对74000篇儿童短文的分析发现，这些文字作品中俨然处处可见美式英语、感叹号和明星姓名。

　　Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, cranky and flashlight.
　　研究人员阅读了全国作文比赛的参赛作品后发现，孩子们正越来越多地使用一些美式英语词汇，比如：garbage（垃圾）, trash can（垃圾桶）， sidewalk（人行道）, candy（糖果）, sneakers（胶底运动鞋）, soda（苏打水）, cranky（暴躁的） and flashlight（手电筒）。

　　The stories, written by pupils aged seven to 13, show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. ‘Smart’ is now often used for ‘clever’ and ‘cranky’ for ‘irritable’.
　　这些短篇作文出自7-13岁孩子们之手，小学生们用纸杯蛋糕(cupcakes)来代替仙女蛋糕（fairy cakes），晚礼服(dinner jacket)则变成了无尾礼服(tuxedo)。常用美式英语还有‘smart’现在也替代了英式用词’clever’来表示聪明之意，而表达暴躁古怪之意的’cranky’也取代了’irritable’。

　　Celebrity culture also has a powerful influence on children’s work, with Simon Cowell and Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names cropping up repeatedly.
　　名人文化同样对孩子们的作文有着强大的影响力，像真人秀毒舌评委西蒙?考威尔以及阿根廷足球明星梅西这样的名人姓名都再三地出现在他们的文章中。

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