英语阅读翻译,53A,接纳人工翻译,在线等,急
The people of La Gomera（拉戈梅拉岛）can carry on long－distance conversation by whistling. For ordinary conversation they speak Spanish. But when they need to speak over a distance, and ordinary speech is impossible, they use sibo, which is the name of whistled form of speech.
La Gomera is very mountainous. In spite of the island’s small size, walking from one place to another may be a slow and difficult job. That message can easily be whistled over a couple of miles, while to travel the same distance on foot might take an hour.
A good whistler can be heard and understood five miles away. His whistling can be heard father away when there is little or no wind. I was informed that the record is about nine miles. Anyone who has heard a first－class whistler will agree that this figure is quite possible.
A whistle doesn’t have all the changes of tone. To achieve changes, the whistler tries to perform the same movement with his teeth, mouth, tongue and throat that he would use if he were actually talking. Of course he can not move his lips during the whistling, so there is some difference. However, it is close enough. Each whistler has his own style of whistling, just as he has own way of speaking. You can recognize him by the way he speaks. Anything that can be said in Spanish can be whistled and understood perfectly. This is true partly because the Spanish language has such a simple sound system. The silbo would not work nearly so well with English.