文波PTE真题SST音频系列之:Voynich Manuscript-伏尼契手稿

2018年12月19日 文波英语


PTE考试真题正扮演着越来越重要的角色,今天墨尔本文波PTE培训学校就给大家总结了最近的高频真题音频,希望对大家有用,下面开始:


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Well, the Voynich manuscript does have many different theories proposed for it. Some people think that it’s a complete hoax. It’s now been carbon dated from the 15th century. So it‘s most likely, if it is a hoax, that’s been a 15th-century hoax, which I personally don’t believe.


But some people think it's just gobbledygook. It's just an invention to make money. Somebody made it to fool people and make money.Other people think it‘s probably a code. In other words, someone encoded lots of secrets in it, hoping that no one would find out. And if so, that’s been very successful because no one has cracked it so far.


But in my opinion, it is actually a genuine script. Obviously, a human device script but masking behind a genuine human language. In a language, it seems to me to have more, if you like, Near Eastern, maybe Caucasian, Asian aspects to it rather than European because of some of the words that I’ve decoded.


So I would imagine that once we’ve actually managed to decode the script, we'll find that the language underneath is a natural human language probably from that part of the world.


背景导读

伏尼契手稿(Voynich manuscript),是一本内容不明的神秘书籍,共240页,附有插图,而作者不详。书中所用字母及语言至今无人能识别,与现代的语言完全搭不上,似乎是中古世纪炼金术士之参考书籍。书名伏尼契来自名为威尔弗雷德·伏尼契的波兰裔美国人书商,他于1912年在意大利买下此书。2005年,这部书入藏耶鲁大学的拜内克古籍善本图书馆,编号MS 408。


2011年透过放射性碳定年法检测出其书成于十五世纪初,估计在1404-1438年间,可信度达95%。这份手稿被发现以来,专业和业余的译解密码员,如第二次世界大战期间英美顶尖解码专家,都积极研究它,但是未能破译出只字片语。一连串的失败令伏尼契手稿俨然成为密码术历史中的“圣杯”。不过,也有不少人认为手稿只不过是个恶作剧——因为书中的符号排列全无意义可言。


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