Fifty-two-year-old Yin has been a sign-language teacher at Beijing's Second Deaf-mute School for 10 years, but spends her spare time as a volunteer teaching sign language in primary middle schools, parks, and residential communities.
52岁的尹老师在北京第二聋哑学校当手语老师已经10年了,在业余时间,她还到中小学、公园以及居民区义务教授手语。
上面的报道中,sign language就是“手语”,也叫signed language,手语交流中会用到的交流方式有:facial expression(面部表情),hshape(手形),lip pattern(唇形),及body language(肢体语言)等;另外,与“手语”一样很常用的还有一种交流方式是“唇读”,其英文表达为lip reading。这两个表达很直观,也很好记哦。