交流T恤：用標識溝通全球

Now you can travel anywhere and be able to communicate—genius！

現在你可以走遍世界溝通無憂了——太有才了！

The new Icon Speak Global communication tee is so simple that we can’t quite believe it didn’t exist before now.

這種最新的“用標識溝通全球”交流T恤看起來如此簡單，以至于你會驚嘆之前它居然一直不存在。

Think about it： how easy would it be if you were on holiday in a foreign country and were just able to point to a symbol explaining the message you intend to get across， without uttering a word of failed language？

想象一下：如果你在外國度假，只要指一下T恤上對應的標識就可以表達你想要表達的信息，少了語言不通的煩惱，是不是很爽？

For example， wouldn’t it be helpful to know how to find the nearest toilet， where the airport is， what the time is or where the best restaurant is to grab a bite to eat without having to reach for your phrase book every time？

比如，想要知道怎樣找到最近的廁所、機場在哪里、現在幾點了或者有沒有最棒的餐館可以去吃點東西，再也不用每次都翻出詞匯小本了，這是不是很有用呢？

Thanks to this ingenious T-shirt， all you need to do is to point to the symbol that best represents your problem and to hope that you can understand the gist of what the person is saying back to you.

多虧這款設計獨特的T恤，你所需要做的就是指一指上面最能代表你問題的標識，并希望能弄懂對方反饋給你的主要意思即可。

Swiss friends George， Steven and Florian who are behind the brand explain on their website， “In the furthest and deepest corners of our world we were repeatedly left with no words， due to our lacking linguistic talents.”

三位瑞士小伙伴，喬治、史蒂芬和弗洛萊恩，是這款T恤的發明者，他們在自己的網站上表示：“由于我們語言天分的不足，我們經常會在世界最遠最深的某個角落失語。”

“Such situations got us thinking about how to bridge language barriers with utmost simplicity， on a global level. The answer came to us after a remarkable experience in the depths of Vietnamese backcountry. Because with ICONs， you can SPEAK， you can SPEAK to the world.”

“這樣的情況讓我們開始思考，怎樣用極簡的方式來掃除這種語言障礙，并且全球適用。當我們在越南偏遠地區有了一次不同凡響的經歷后，我們終于找到了答案。因為有了標識，你就可以說話了，你可以跟整個世界對話了。”

Of course， the T-shirts don’t exactly help you if you want to try and learn the language， nor will they make your travelling pictures look great if you’re wearing the same outfit every day—but there will surely be benefits along the way.

當然，如果你想試著學習當地語言，這款T恤肯定幫不了你，而且如果你要每天穿同一件T恤，你的旅游照片也會看起來不那么精彩——但它一定對你的旅行有幫助。

Vocabulary

intend v. 想要；打算

utter v. 發出聲音；說；講

ingenious adj. 設計獨特的；有天才的

gist n. 主旨，要點

repeatedly adv. 反復地，重復地

linguistic adj. 語言的；語言學的

utmost adj. 極度的，最大的

remarkable adj. 卓越的；顯著的

outfit n. 全套裝備；一套服裝

benefit n. 利益，好處