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For centuries we have marked our dead with lifeless granite -- graves inscribed with names, dates, perhaps small inscriptions about the departed. But stones do not tell stories. 几个世纪以来，我们都在用毫无生气的花岗岩怀念逝者——刻着名字、生卒的墓碑，也许还附上一段铭文。然而石头并不会讲故事。 Now, a funeral home in Britain is attaching tiny digital codes to headstones, giving visitors the chance to see, hear, even experience the lives of the dead. No longer are graveyard visitors limited to letters and numbers etched into tombstones. 现在在英国，一家殡仪馆开始在墓石上贴上数字条码，让来访者可以有机会看到、听到、甚至走进逝者的人生。去墓地的人可以接触到的再也不仅仅是刻在碑石的字母和数字了。 The markers, known as Quick Response or QR codes, look like a combination of a barcode and Rorschach blot and are attached to the back corner of the stone. A smartphone with a QR reader can scan the code, launching websites or multimedia collections created by the family, providing an interactive life story to anyone standing over the grave. 这个数字条码叫做二维码，看起来就像是条形码和罗夏墨迹的结合，被设置在碑石的角落里。装有QR读取器的智能手机都可以扫描到，站在墓碑前的人就可以看到由逝者的亲人提供的网页或多媒体资料，互动分享人生故事。 | 
