We're going to hear now from Tom Hewitson, who is a conversation designer, working in the field of virtual assistants, talking on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth programme.
我们现在要听听汤姆·休伊森在BBC电台4频道的《Word of Mouth》节目中的话,他是一名对话设计师,从事虚拟助手方面的工作。
BBC随身英语(官网版)
As Tom Hewitson says " We will develop our own kind of vernacular for speaking with machines that will be subtly different from how we speak to other people… It can be much more brusque and to the point" .
正如 Tom Hewitson 所说:“我们将开发自己的语言来与机器交谈,这将与我们与其他人交谈的方式略有不同… … 它可以更加直率和切题”。
英语百科
Hewitson
Hewitson is an English surname of Norman origin. The name Hewitson, comes from the patronym of the given name Hewitt, meaning "son of Hewitt". In Norse custom, patronyms were formed by using the ending -son (later -søn and -sen in Danish, Norwegian and German) to the genitive form of the father's name to indicate "son of".