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America’s young women are running out of oxygen.
美國的年輕女士們正在缺氧之中。
What else could explain why so many of them sound like this.
該如何解釋為何她們總是這么說話。
So cute. So cute.
真可愛。
Hi. Hi. Hi.
你好。
Just kind of like my, you know, motto. You know, motto.
就像是我的座右銘，你知道，座右銘。
Komen Chloe just don't get it, get it, get it.
Komen Chloe只是搞不懂。
Believe it or not, there’s a scientific term for the way a Kardashian speaks, and it’s “vocal fry.”
無論你信不信，有一個科學(xué)術(shù)語可以形容卡戴珊的這種說話風格——“泡泡音”。
It’s a low, creaky vibration produced by a fluttering of the vocal cords.
它是一種由聲帶顫動產(chǎn)生的很低且不穩(wěn)的震動。
Speech pathologists call it a “disorder” that verges on “vocal abuse” and here is what looks like.
語言病理學(xué)家稱它是一種失調(diào)，接近于聲帶濫用，它就像是這樣。
Call it a quirk, a trend, or an epidemic? Vocal fry is everywhere.
管它叫做怪癖，趨勢或是流行病？泡泡音到處都是。
I am not staying here tonight, tonight.
我今晚不住在這里。
The only reason I’m going is to just like network, network.
我去那里的唯一原因就像是為了社交。
A recent study of women in college found that two thirds of them use this glottalization, which explains why the fry is a sizzling topic in The New York Times, on morning TV.
一份近期根據(jù)大學(xué)女生的調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，他們之中三分之二的人用這種喉塞音說話，這就解釋了為何泡泡音在紐約時代的早間電視節(jié)目上成了熱門話題。
Sounds something like this. Ahhhh….
聽起來像是這樣。
Even for NPR host. It’s annoying. I mean it’s really annoying….
甚至是NPR主持人。這很惱人，我的意思是這真的很惱人。
When I was a tween in the early’ 80s, the Valley Girl was born.
80年代初期，當我還是青少年的時候，《山谷女孩》出現(xiàn)了。
She brought us alike and uptalk.
她使我們說話相似并呈現(xiàn)聲調(diào)。
And there has been, like, a general cultural agreement that, like, that kind of speech leaves the user sounding air-heady and unprofessional.
但是在大眾的文化認同中這種講話讓演講者聽起來很蠢，很不專業(yè)。
But vocal fry is unique, because researchers have found that women who talk this way are seen by their peers as educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile.
但是“泡泡音”不同，因為研究者發(fā)現(xiàn)同齡人視這種說話的女士為有教養(yǎng)、城市化和希望改善社會地位的人。
You love him and he totally compliment you, compliment you.
你愛他，而他全然在稱贊你。
Some linguists even suggest that creaky young ladies are evolving our culture as linguistic innovators.
一些語言學(xué)家甚至認為這些活躍的年輕女士正如語言學(xué)創(chuàng)造者一樣推動了文化的演變。
Taylor has a pretty good reputation in this business, business.
Taylor在這行有很好的聲譽。
While, metaphorically, I encourage every woman to find her voice, I’m dismayed at how low it can go.
打個比喻，盡管我鼓勵所有女士都能找到自己的聲音，但是我還是驚奇于它還能有多低。
On my 16th birthday, birthday.
在我16歲生日。
I’m burned out on the fry. It sounds underwhelmed and disengaged.
我受夠了泡泡音，它聽起來讓人感到膩味，不能集中注意力。
It’s annoying to listen to a young woman who sounds world-weary, and exactly like her 14 best friends.
聽到一個年輕女士這樣的風塵氣息的聲音很煩人，而且她的14個好朋友也一模一樣。
