美語情景對話 第1351期:Death to Email 電子郵件的消亡(2)

Todd: I know. Actually I see you guys and it's amazing. I see my students how fast they can use their phone, and it's phenomenal to me. It's like blurry, it's so fast.

託德：我知道。我看到過你們用手機打字，非常不可思議。我看到過我的學生用手機的速度，那對我來說太驚人了。我看着很模糊，太快了。

Jen: I think if you start using your phone more and not your PC then you would be fast at it too, because even if I were to check my mails I don't do it from my PC, I actually do reply to all my mails from my phone itself.

珍：我想如果你開始多用手機而不是用電腦的話，你也可以那麼快，因爲即使我現在要查看電郵，我也不是在電腦上操作，我會用手機回覆所有電郵。

Todd: Wow. Actually no, I think it's not true because I've tried. I think it's because I'm older. My phone gets stiff. I mean my phone ... My thumb gets stiff like arthritis or something, like it literally stops moving. That's why I'm amazed.

託德：哇哦。實際上，我認爲我辦不到，因爲我已經試過了。我想這是因爲我年紀大了。我的手機僵掉了。我的意思是說我的手機……我的拇指僵化，類似關節炎之類的疾病，也就是說它靜止不動了。所以我纔會感到吃驚。

Jen: Maybe it's just in your head.

珍：也許是你的思想僵化。

Todd: I physically can't do it. No, no, I really like, and when I type I could type really fast, touch type, but I cannot move my thumb that fast. The more, the longer I try I get thumb fatigue, like my thumb just stops, the joint won't work anymore.

託德：是身體上做不到。不是，我在電腦上打字時，速度可以非常快，可是在觸摸屏上打字，我的拇指動不了那麼快。打的字越多、時間越長，我的拇指越疲勞，所以拇指就不動了，關節不再工作了。

Jen: For me it's very difficult for me to type really fast. I would rather use my thumb and text.

珍：對我來說，我在電腦上的打字速度達不到那麼快。我更願意用拇指編輯短信。

Todd: No, that's cool. Now these days I don't know if you've realized but you can do voice typing. Have you tried that? Google Docs for example, you don't even have to type anymore. You can just talk in a microphone and with no special software and Google Docs will type what you say.

託德：嗯，那很酷。我不知道你有沒有注意到，最近可以語音輸入了。你試過嗎？比如谷歌文件，甚至不用再打字了。你可以用麥克風進行語音輸入，不用特殊軟件的輔助，谷歌文件就可以識別出你說的話。

Jen: But then again you have to be very clear because it always makes a lot of mistakes.

珍：可是要明確的是，這種方法的錯誤很多。

Todd: Yeah, but you know what's amazing about it, is I had, I was doing it with my students and then I was going to have my student do it and the voice recorder wouldn't take their voice, it would only take my voice.

託德：對，不過你知道那了不起的地方在於，我和學生一起用語音輸入，我讓學生進行語音輸入，可是語音記錄器不接受學生的聲音，只接受並識別我的聲音。

Jen: I think it's because the ...

珍：我想那是因爲……

Todd: The user account name?

託德：用戶名？

Jen: Yeah, the user account name can only recognize your voice because that's been saved first.

珍：對，用戶名只能識別你的聲音，因爲那個先保存了。

Todd: Right, so it saves the first voice, then another one won't work.

託德：好吧，它會保存第一個人的聲音，而其他人的聲音就不能識別了。

Jen: Yeah, I guess.

珍：我想是這樣的。

Todd: So that brings up the question, technology gets better and better and better. Do you think typing will be obsolete, will be gone in five, 10 years?

託德：這就引出了一個問題，技術越來越先進。你認爲打字會在未來5到10年被淘汰嗎？

Jen: I cannot really say but maybe no, not in 10 years. Maybe 20 to 30 years, yes, but not in 10 years, because I think still people are more comfortable writing their books and stuff like reports, just typing. Everybody doesn't like to talk a lot.

珍：我不能確定，不過也許10年後還不會被淘汰。可能在二三十年後會被淘汰，但10年後不會，因爲我認爲人們依然認爲在寫書或報告時打字更舒服。所有人都不喜歡說太多話。

Todd: True. Yeah, I think there's a different mental process when you type and it's just when you just speak it goes away.

託德：沒錯。我認爲打字和說話時的思維過程是不同的。

Jen: Yeah.

珍：對。

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重點講解：
1. even if 即使；儘管；縱然；
Even if you won't tell me, I'll know anyway.
你就不說，我也會知道。
2. reply to 回覆；回答；
It took them a week to reply to my letter.
他們過了一個星期纔回復我的信。
3. would rather do sth. 寧願，寧可；
I would rather stay at home.
我寧願待在家裏。
4. be going to do sth. 想要（做…）；決定（做…）；
My daughter's going to work next year.
我女兒過年該上班了。