拒絕近親結婚 冰島大學生開發“防亂倫”安卓APP

You meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin?
你見到某個人，你們之間產生化學反應，你會問幾個初步的問題：你叫什麼名字？你經常來這裏嗎？你是我的表親嗎？

In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins is a real risk.
作爲一個只有32萬人口的國家，冰島人幾乎都會有些遠房親戚關係，一不注意就有很高的風險親吻到自己的表親。

A new smartphone app is on hand to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest. The app lets users "bump" phones, and emits a warning alarm if they are closely related. "Bump the app before you bump in bed," says the catchy slogan.
一種新的手機應用程序可以隨時幫助你避免意外的亂倫。這個應用程序可以讓使用者互相碰一下手機，如果你們的血緣關係很親近的話，它就會發出警報。該應用的標語非常引人注意，寫着：“在你們上牀之前先碰一下此應用”。

Some are hailing it as a welcome solution to a very Icelandic form of social embarrassment.
有些人對這個應用的發明歡呼雀躍，這個應用將能解決了冰島人特有的社會尷尬。

"Everyone has heard the story of going to a family event and running into a girl you hooked up with some time ago," said Einar Magnusson, a graphic designer in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik.
“很多人都聽過這樣的故事：一個人在家庭聚會上遇到了自己前陣子釣到的姑娘，” 來自冰島首都雷克雅未克的一個平面設計師艾納-馬格努森說。

"It's not a good feeling when you realize that girl is a second cousin. People may think it's funny, but (the app) is a necessity."
“當你意識到那個女孩是你的遠房表/堂兄妹時，這種感覺可不好受。人們可能認爲這很有趣，但是（這個應用）很必要。”

The Islendiga-App — "App of Icelanders" — is an idea that may only be possible in Iceland, where most of the population shares descent from a group of 9th-century Viking settlers, and where an online database holds genealogical details of almost the entire population.
這款專爲冰島人設計的應用軟件 “冰島的應用” 是一個只能在冰島可行的想法，冰島上大部分人的血統都源自於九世紀北歐移民者，而在線數據庫保存着幾乎所有人口的家譜資料。

The app was created by three University of Iceland software engineering students for a contest calling for "new creative uses" of the Islendingabok, or Book of Icelanders, an online database of residents and their family trees stretching back 1,200 years.
這款應用程序是在爲冰島人之書“創造新用途”的比賽中，由冰島大學軟件工程專業的三個學生研發的。冰島人之書是一個網絡數據庫，包含了冰島所有居民和1200年來的家譜樹。

Arnar Freyr Adalsteinsson, one of the trio, said it allows any two Icelanders to see how closely related they are, simply by touching phones.
三人組中其中一個叫阿那-弗雷-阿達特森的學生說，這個應用程序允許任意兩個冰島人僅通過觸碰手機就能知道他們之間的關係有多密切。

The Book of Icelanders database was developed in 1997 by deCODE and software entrepreneur Fridrik Skulason. Compiled using census data, church records, family archives and a host of other information sources, it claims to have information on 95 percent of all Icelanders who have lived in the last 300 years.
“冰島人之書”於1997年由deCODE公司企業家福瑞克-斯庫拉森研發。編排時運用了戶口普查資料、教堂記錄、家庭檔案和其他信息源，它聲稱包含了冰島300年來95%居民的信息。

The database can be scoured online by any Icelandic citizen or legal resident. The app makes the data available to Icelanders on their mobile phones — and adds the anti-incest feature.
任何冰島公民或者合法公民都可以在線更新這個數據庫。這個應用軟件使得數據可以在冰島人手機上使用，並且增加了反亂倫功能。

Currently available for Android phones, it has been downloaded almost 4,000 times since it was launched earlier this month. The creators also hope to develop an iPhone version.
現在該應用只有安卓手機可用，在本月初正式推出後，已經有近4000次下載量。創建者也希望研發出iPhone版本。

"The Icelandic nation is not inbred," Stefansson said. "This app is interesting. It makes the data much more available. But the idea that it will be used by young people to make sure they don't marry their cousins is of much more interest to the press than a reflection of reality."
“冰島民族並不是近親交配的產物，” 斯蒂芬森說，“應用程序很有趣，它使得數據得到更好利用。但是這個想法主要是用來幫年輕人確信沒有與表親結婚的事情上，對媒體來說應該是有趣的，但並非反映冰島社會現實。”

It may also be of limited use. Currently the alarm only alerts users if they and their new acquaintance have a common grandparent, and most people already know who their first cousins are.
不過這個手機應用的功能也還是比較有限。目前警報只能提醒使用者和他們的新相好是不是共有同一個祖父母或外祖父母，而大部分人知道他們的嫡親表/堂兄妹是誰。

Adalsteinsson stresses that the app has other, less sexual uses. "We added a birthday calendar to make sure you don't forget your relatives' birthdays," he said.
阿達特森強調說這款應用程序除去性用途之外還有其他用途。“我們添加了一個生日日曆，來確信你沒有忘記你親戚的生日。”他說。