新奇事件簿 维基百科将变书籍

A publishing company plans to print all of the articles from the Wikipedia website. PediaPress hopes to print the entire contents of Wikipedia in 1,000 books, each containing 1,200 pages. Wikipedia has over 4.3 million articles and 2.6 billion words. Over 20 million volunteers have helped to write it. The project will see the physical version¹ of Wikipedia on nearly 1.2 million pages of print. The page numbers will continue from book to book and the final page will be number 1,193,014. PediaPress needs $50,000 to start the project. It wants people to donate² money so it can go ahead with the first copy. The company has already printed number one of the thousand books. It includes the articles from "A" to "A76 motorway³".

一家出版公司计划打印出所有维基百科网站中的文章。德国公司PediaPress希望用1000本书打印出维基百科中的所有内容，每本书1200页。维基百科的文章数量超过了4300万，26亿文字。志愿者编辑人数超过了2000万。这项计划将让人们看到将近1200万页的纸质维基百科。纸张的数量将继续增加，最终的数量应该是119万3014页。PediaPress需要5万美金来开始这一项目。该公司希望人们进行捐款，这样他们的第一本书将立即启动。该公司已经开始了上千本书的打印工作。其中包括从“A”到A76高速路文章的打印工作。

Many people are questioning why PediaPress wants to print out such a huge website. They say it will be outof date as soon as it starts printing. A spokesperson from PediaPress said the company wants to show the world just how big Wikipedia really is. He said: "We think that the best way to experience the size of Wikipedia is by transforming it into the physical medium of books." He added⁴: "Containing the most volumes⁵ andedited by the largest number of contributors, the printed edition will be a work of record-breaking dimensions⁶." The company may take the books on a world tour. After that, it will donate them to a big public library.

许多人都对PediaPress的这一行为产生了疑问。他们认为打印的都是些过时的文章。PediaPress的发言人称公司就是想向世界展示维基百科到底有多大。他说：“我们认为只有把危机百科变成实体的书籍，人们才能感受到维基百科的大小。”他还说：“维基百科拥有数量最多的文章，其编辑的志愿者人数也是空前的，该网站的打印版本也将创下世界记录。”该公司将带着这些书环游世界。之后将它捐献给公共图书馆。

1 version   

n.版本；型号；叙述，说法

参考例句：

• His version of the events is pure supposition.他对这件事的说法纯属猜测。
• What is your version of this matter?你对这件事情的看法 怎么样？

2 donate   

v.捐赠，赠予

参考例句：

• They used to donate to the Red Cross every year.他们每年捐钱给红十字会。
• She is willing to donate money to a worthy cause.她愿为高尚的事业捐款。

3 motorway   

n.高速公路，快车道

参考例句：

• Our car had a breakdown on the motorway.我们的汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。
• A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph.一个疯狂的司机以每小时110英里的速度在高速公路上逆行飙车35英里。

4 added   

adj.更多的，附加的，额外的

参考例句：

• They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
• The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。

5 volumes   

n.量( volume的名词复数 )；书；音量；卷

参考例句：

• The bookcase contains fifty volumes but holds a hundred. 这书橱装有50册书，但它能装下100册。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography. 这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 dimensions   

vi.按规格尺寸切割vt.在…上标尺寸n.面积；特点；（长、宽、厚、高等的）尺寸；重要性；尺寸( dimension的名词复数 )；方面；（长、宽、高的）量度；规模

参考例句：

• We measured the dimensions of the kitchen. 我们测量了厨房的大小。
• What are the dimensions of this room? 这房间的面积是多大？ 来自《简明英汉词典》